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Monday, September 26, 2005

Brew Update

The Yellow Cloud Hefeweizen is bottled, and the Irish Ale has been racked to the secondary fermenter.

"Irish Ale? I don't remember any Irish Ale!" " you say.
Well, I guess I was slacking. I forgot to post it. So, without any more delay, here it is:
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Diamond Dave's Irish Ale

Fermentables:
6 # Light DME
3/4# honey

Adjuncts
1/2 # 60 L Crystal
1/2 # Cara Pils

Boiling hops:
2 oz. Fuggles

Finish hops:
1 oz Hallertauer

Yeast:
White Labs Irish Ale Yeast

Procedure:
Stew grains in grain bag while bringing up to temp. ~165.
Add 1 oz. Fuggles
Brew at ~165 for 1 hour
Add 1 oz Fuggles last 15 minutes.
Add 1 oz. Hallertauer last 3 minutes
Cooled to ~78
Pitch yeast.
Primary fermenter 7 days.
Secondary fermenter 7 days.
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This is cloned from the British Ale. Since the brew store didn't have British ale yeast, I opted for Irish Ale yeast. I also had some spare cara-pils so I threw that in.

It's already starting to clarify after less than 24 hours, and it smelled heavenly during the transfer. This should turn out to be an awesome brew.

4 comments:

curmudgeon said...

If you must get something "instead of", that is a good choice.
But I hope you don't put it off too long.

I'm not even supposed to be here today said...

I'd like to get into homebrewing someday... It's a fairly expensive hobby isn't it? Not compared to golf... but you know what I mean...

curmudgeon said...

Not really expensive, after the initial investment of equipment.
To get started, you will have to buy around $100 worth of gear.
After that, depending on the recipe and ingredients, you can spend as little as $15-$20 per batch. One batch makes about 5 gallons of beer, which after bottling ends up being about two cases.
My last batch cost me about $35 or $40, I forget now, but even so. It will still be about the same or even less than 2 cases of MGD.

curmudgeon said...

peggasus,

So then do your own brewing!