I have 5 cases of Mead in champagne bottles laid by & ready to drink. (I use champagnes because I can use the same crown caps as on my beer bottles.)I have another ten 1 gallon jugs clarifying in the back room.
So now, I'm working at getting all the beer cases full. I have 18 cases. Nine are now empty.
Wednesday, I cooked up a couple 5 gallon batches of Porter, or Dark Brown Ale.
A simple recipe, for a 5 gallon batch:
1/2 # of 120 lovibond Crystal Malt(grain)
1/2# of Chocolate Malt(grain)
6#'s of Amber DME, dry plain malt extract.
1oz. of Northern Brewer Hop pellets- 8.5 Aa- bittering
1 oz. of Willamette Hop pellets- 4.6 Aa- aroma
Crush the grain, add to 7 qt's cold water in brew pot.
Bring to Boil. Strain out bulk of the Grain. Sparge with 2 qt. boiling water.
Add sparging to brew pot. Add in 6# of DME. Add Bittering hop pellets.
Bring back to gentle Rolling Boil. Boil 60 miinutes.
Add Aroma Hop pellets to last 5 minutes of Boil.
Turn off heat..........
Sparge into Fermenter=Carboy, with 2 gallon cold water.
Top of with hot boiled water. Set aside to cool.
When cooled to less than 90 F. Pitch Yeast.
I put the dry yeast dry on top of Wort....Not Recommended!! (Works for me)
Add Blow-off tube with other, lower end, in 5 gal. bucket half full of water.
Bubbling in 10 to 15 minutes. It will be ready for Bottle Conditioning in
7 to 10 days. Bottle condition with 3/4 cup corn sugar, Boiled in 1 pint of water for the batch. Cap & let sit at room temp. for 1 week.
Simple recipe, Easy to make.
Cost for Eight 6-packs........Of Good wholesome Ale
DME, $28
Hops $$4
Grain $3
Sugar, for conditioning $0.50
Total - $35.50
Commercially Cost @ $9 a 6-pack $72+ tax
Mine is Better..........
I Love to Brew!
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