Weasel Breweries™
Recipes:
Himself: An Irish
Ale™
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Extract and
partial mash. Makes 5 gallons. Elapsed time: 1.5 hours.
- 6 lbs. Alexander's
Pale malt extract
- 1 lb. Guajillo
honey
- 1.5 lbs.
cracked Crystal 150 Malt
- 0.25 lbs.
cracked Roasted Barley
- 3.0 oz. pelleted
Cascade hops (bittering, flavoring, aroma)
- 1 tsp. Irish
Moss (optional)
- 0.5 tsp.
Yeast nutrient (optional)
- 0.5 tsp.
Chillguard (optional)
- 1 package
liquid Irish Ale Yeast - Wyeast #1084(XL) Irish Ale Yeast
In a 30 liter
stainless steel brew pot, bring 20 liters cold water to a boil.
Meanwhile, add
5 liters cold water to a 20 liter stainless steel sparge pot. Place
specialty grains in muslin or nylon sparging bag and add to water.
Begin heating. When temperature reaches 180 F, turn off heat and
sparge grains for an additional five minutes. Then, remove bag and
squeeze remaining tasty goodness from bag using a collander and
a large bowl. Discard grains.
When brew pot
reaches boil, begin stirring water and add malt extract. Stirring
will prevent the malt extract settling to the bottom of the pot
and burning. Next, add the contents of the sparging pot. Stir a
few more times for good measure. Inhale.
Turn on the
heat and bring the mixture to a boil again. When boiling, the mixture
forms a foam layer which can rise out of the pot and burn on your
stove. Be careful to avoid this. It is messy and difficult to clean.
Boil the wort
for 60 minutes, adding ingredients at the following intervals:
Start of
boil: Bittering hops - 1.5 oz. Cascade
45 minutes:
Flavoring hops - 0.5 oz. Cascade, Irish Moss, Yeast nutrient
55 minutes:
Aroma hops - 1.0 oz. Cascade
60 minutes:
Stop boil
Cool the wort
to 85 F or lower before adding yeast. Cool the wort as quickly as
possible to prevent infection. Leave wort in primary fermenter until
fermentation subsides (about a week). Leave wort in secondary fermenter
for an additional two to three weeks. Bottle and age to taste. (Weasel
Breweries recommends a minimum of two months. More is better, but
we always say that.)
First brewed
20 May 1999.
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