Rockies Brew » Recipes http://rockiesbrew.com All About craft beer & homebrewing in the Rockies Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:51:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 HOP to It – (Honey-Oat-Pale) http://rockiesbrew.com/2009/05/19/hop-to-it-honey-oat-pale/ http://rockiesbrew.com/2009/05/19/hop-to-it-honey-oat-pale/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 21:51:06 +0000 admin http://rockiesbrew.com/2009/05/19/hop-to-it-honey-oat-pale/ Today, I fired up the propane burner and brewed up a new beer, the HOP to IT. It’s an experimental pale ale with flaked oats and honey. The oats should add a creamy mouth feel and the honey will lend it’s floral elements to the fermentation. The recipe particulars are below.

malt and fermentables
 
% LB OZ Malt or Fermentable ppg °L
70% 7 0 Pale Liquid Extract 36 0
20% 2 0 Honey 35 1
10% 1 0 Oats, Flaked 37 1

Original Gravity
1.070
(1.062 to 1.073)
Final Gravity
1.022
(1.020 to 1.024)
Color
1° SRM
(Clear to Light Yellow)
Mash Efficiency
75%

hops
use time oz variety form aa
Boil 60 mins 1.75 Chinook leaf 13.0
Boil 15 mins 0.25 Chinook leaf 13.0
Bitterness
22.7 HBU
54.1 IBU
ƒ: Average
BU:GU
0.77

yeast

White Labs Pacific Ale (WLP041)
ale yeast in liquid form with high flocculation

Alcohol
6.4% A.B.V.
4.9% A.B.W.
Calories
232 per 12 oz.

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Recipe for 2 gallons (actually came out at 2.7 gallons)

  • 3 qts dandelion flowers (heads only, remove as much green as possible.)
  • 2.5 lbs honey
  • 3 lemon (zest and juice)
  • 2 oranges (zest and juice)
  • 1 gallon water (sugar takes up some volume)
  • Yeast
Vida collecting dandelions Field of dandelions The harvest
Grated zest The boil Delicious liquid
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