Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

Title:
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

Yield:
54 Servings

Categories:
Beer,
Brewing




Ingredients:





    12 lb 2-row pale malt


     2 lb Munich malt


     2 lb Crystal malt


     4 lb Edme light extract


     4 lb Alexander's light extract


     4 oz Dark molasses


   1/4 c  Priming sugar


 2 1/2 oz Northern Brewer @8%


 1 1/2 oz Kent Goldings @5.2%


   1/2 oz Hallertauer @2.8%


   1/2 oz Cascade @5.2%


          Wyeast Vintner's Choice


          Champagne yeast






 Mash in 18 quarts water @148 degrees (adjust pH to 5.3). Starch  conver-


 sion  2  hours at 150-141 degrees. Mash out 5 minutes  at  168  degrees.


 Sparge at 168 degrees. Boil wort 2-1/2 hours. 90 minutes after start  of


 boil,  add  extracts,  molasses, and Northern Brewer  hops.  30  minutes


 later,  add Kent Goldings hops. In last 15 minutes, add Hallertauer  and


 Cascade hops. This was not an easy batch. The yeast took off immediately


 and blew  out 1-1/2 gallons through the blow tube. Once the yeast subsided,


 I let  it sit for a week and then bottled. I should have taken a sample and


 pitch- ed some Red Star Pasteur champagne yeast because it turns out the


 grav- ity was still 1.091! The flavor is impossibly syrupy, but I'll put in


 the  cellar and forget about it for a few months. This could be my  most


 expensive  failure yet, then again, maybe not. Maybe I can pour it  over


 ice cream... Original Gravity: 1.126 Final Gravity: 1.092


 


 Recipe By     : Fred Condo


 


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


 


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