Recipe of the Day!

I know you have been anxiously awaiting the first real recipe for your homebrew kit that you started. This is a pale ale that has a hoppy floral bite and refreshing finish for those hot summer days.

Franki's Pale Ale
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Brewer: North Idaho Ramblings
Style: American IPA
Batch: 5.00 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.060 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 64 IBU
Recipe Color: 33° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.015
Alcohol by Volume: 5.8%
Alcohol by Weight: 4.6%

Ingredients
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Amber D.M.E. 6.00 lb, Extract, Extract
Crystal 80L 1.00 lb, Grain, Steeped
Roasted barley 1.00 lb, Grain, Steeped

Centennial 0.75 oz, Whole, 5 minutes
Northern Brewer 2.00 oz, Whole, 60 minutes

Gypsum 2.00 unit, Additive, 2 Tsp. Gypsum added to boil
London Ale yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast, Liquid Yeast

Notes
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Recipe Notes:
*Toast malted barley (Great Western 2 Row) for 10 min. at 350 degrees.

*Add cracked crystal malt and toasted malt to 1.5 gal. cold water. Bring to 160 degrees and hold for 20 min.

*Strain and sparge grain with hot water.

*To boiling wort add:
Dry Malt Extract (DME), Northern Brewer Hops, and Gypsum. Boil for 60 min.

*Add Centennial hops last 5 min.

*Strain wort and sparge into 2 Gal. cold water and top off carboy.

*Allow wort to cool and pitch yeast, attach blowoff tube.

*After initial fermentation subsides (2-4 days) attach fermentation lock
and allow to fully ferment.

*Bottle with priming sugar for carbonation and Enjoy!


As with all posts comments are more than welcome. I like to know how these turn out for other people.

Return of the Barber Shop

It seems like anymore the barber shop is more of a novelty than a staple in a man's life. As I boy I went to the local barber shop to get my hair cut, but the atmosphere was the real attraction. I could find magazines about fishing and hunting, not teenage heartthrobs. There were mounts of deer, elk, ducks and bobcat instead of hairwash stations and there were men listening to the AM radio and talking about local affairs. If you are considering making the barbershop part of your routine again the website Art of Manliness makes a compelling argument.

http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/

Largest Memorial Day Parade

The American Veterans Center, who puts on the largest Memorial Day event in the nation, will be streaming their parade in Washington D.C. at 2:00 et on Monday the 25th. In addition to streaming the parade, their website contains many publications, audio, and video honoring American veterans. From their website:

Who are we?

The mission of the American Veterans Center is to preserve and promote the legacy of America’s servicemen and women from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The Center is comprised of two divisions - The World War II Veterans Committee and the National Vietnam Veterans Committee. The American Veterans Center is also the primary sponsor of the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC, drawing a quarter of a million spectators to one of the largest military-themed events in the country.

“Bringing the legacy of the Greatest Generation to the latest generation” is the motto of the World War II Veterans Committee. Through documentary work, speaker programs, and the publications World War II Chronicles and American Valor Quarterly, the World War II Veterans Committee seeks to bring the history of World War II to today’s students and young people.

The National Vietnam Veterans Committee not only seeks to tell the combat stories of Vietnam veterans, we also spotlight their many successes after returning home. The National Vietnam Veterans Committee, through its programs which include the publication Valor: The Veterans of Vietnam and now American Valor Quarterly, is working to tell the true story of Vietnam veterans which has so often been ignored.

http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/

Armed Services

Being Memorial Day is coming next weekend I thought I would give people a place to thank those in the military for their service to the country. If you have anyone you would like to thank you can post it in the comments or link to a website. I personally would like to thank my Grandpa Raleigh for his service during World War II and all the service men and women who I have the honor of calling friends. Thank You All, and God Bless America!

http://www.boundary-idaho.com/wallofhonor/index.htm

Weekend Outdoors

With a bout a nice weather in the area I am itching to get outside. Some of the guys will be salmon fishing on the river this weekend and I hope to catch up with them at some point. I also recently saw an article about crawfish trapping on the Snake River and was intrigued. All you need is a steel trap, some bait and a long soak. This is as close as I'm going to come to Deadliest Catch!


There are quite a few places that sell the traps including Cabela's. With a trap full of crawfish all you need to do is wash them, boil, and enjoy your mountain Lobster. If I don't make it out this weekend Good luck on the river to Matt, Tex, and Logan. Send pictures and I'll post them.

Cabela's Link: http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0002258014322a.shtml
Idaho Rod & Reel: http://www.idfishnhunt.com/crawfish.htm