Beer Number 23

Title:
Beer Number 23

Yield:
54 Servings

Categories:
Beer,
Brewing




Ingredients:





     4 lb Plain light malt extract


          Syrup


 1 1/8 lb (750 grams) Maltose


   2/3 oz Chinook Hops, flower,


          (boil)


   1/3 oz Cascade Hops, flower,


          (finish)


   1/2 oz Cascade Hops, pellets


          (dry hopped in secondary)


          Ale Yeast cultured from


          Sierra Nevada Pale


   3/4 c  Corn sugar (bottling)






 About a week before, make a starter from 2 bottles of Sierra Nevada Pale


 Ale.  Use  about 4 tablespoons of plain light malt extract syrup  and  a


 couple of hop pellets. Boil major ingredients, ala Complete Joy of Home


 Brewing, in 2  gallons of water. (60 minute boil). Add 1/3 ounce Chinook


 hops at start of boil, 1/3 ounce Chinnook at 30 minutes and 1/3 ounce of


 Cascade hops  in  the last two minutes of the boil. Then combine with 3


 gallons of  ice  cold tap water (which was boiled the previous night, and


 cooled  in  the freezer) in a 7 gallon carboy. Ferment in primary for a


 week.  Put  1/2 ounce of Cascade pellets in bottom of secondary and rack


 beer  into secondary. Bottle three weeks later. This a report on my second


 use of "maltose" (a cheap rice malt available from most Oriental Markets).


 In the previous attempt ("Number 17",  see HBD #541 or The Cat's Meow: p


 36) there were a few problems. It was also my first attempt at culturing


 yeast (from a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale), and for various reasons, it didn't


 work very well. The other problem was  I used to much maltose, about 40%,


 which made the result  a  little  too light. This time I decided to use


 about 20% maltose, which IMHO, is just about right. I've also since


 perfected yeast culturing.  The result is a nice thirst quenching, summer


 ale, which, with my favorite  pizza,  is heaven*2. Taste: Excellent!


 Original Gravity: 1.036 @ 74 degrees Final Gravity: 1.006 @ 69 degrees


 Primary Ferment: 1 week Secondary Ferment: 3 weeks


 


 Recipe By     : John S. Watson


 


 From: Dscollin@aol.Com                Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 20:56:21 -0500


 


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