Weasel Breweries™
Recipes:
Landfill Steam™
Back Label
Text:
Ingredients schmedients! Feh! Who needs spring water, organically
grown blah blah blah and all that schmutz? I wanna beer, dammit.
And this is a beer. Period. End of story. Now go worry about ozone
holes and love canals and leave me alone, you dirty hippie. This
brew is another Full Metal Hoopajoop from the cranky Monks of Ann
Arbor Abbey.™
Extract and
partial mash. A San Francisco-style steam beer in the general vein
of Anchor Steam. Improves with extra aging. Makes 5 gallons. Elapsed
time: 1.5 hours.
- 8 lbs. Pale
malt extract
- 0.75 lb.
cracked British Crystal Malt
- 0.5 lb. cracked
Munich 70 Malt
- 2 oz. pelleted
Northern Brewer hops (bittering, flavoring)
- 1 oz. pelleted
Cascade hops (aroma)
- 1 tsp. Irish
Moss (optional)
- 0.5 tsp.
Yeast nutrient (optional)
- 0.5 tsp.
Chillguard (optional)
- 1 package
liquid Bavarian Lager Yeast - Wyeast #2206 Bavarian Lager 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 bot
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. Northern Brewer
45 minutes:
Flavoring hops - 0.5 oz. Northern Brewer, 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.)
1st brewed 18
December 1997.
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