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Smoked Chili Pale Ale

Radd Icenoggle — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:02:17 +0000

Finally, after a long hiatus, I am finally back to brewing. I just went to the combo “garden” and homebrew shop in downtown Missoula, and picked up some interesting ingredients and winged it.

Fermentables
3 lbs. – Dry Light Malt Extract
0.25 lbs. - Smoked Pale Malt
1 lbs. – Northwest Pale Malt
1 lbs. - 40L Crystal
0.5 lbs. – Oat Flakes

Hops
4.0 oz. – Wild Montana ~4% AA at 60 Minutes
2 oz. – Cascade ~6% AA at 20 minutes
2 oz. – Cascade ~6% AA at 2 minutes

Yeast
Wyeast American Ale

4 chipotle chilis *UPDATE*

Steep all grains for 30 minutes at ~150 F	Add in the 3 lbs. of dry light malt extract
Hops in the wort	Everything in the fermenter
Now the waiting begins

Sticky Sweet Maple Honey Porter

Radd Icenoggle — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:30:49 +0000

Today I brewed a recipe of my own devices, a Sticky Sweet Maple Honey Porter. The intent of this was to have big porter with sweet tones of coffee, maple, and floral tones from the Fuggles hops and honey. In what follows is the recipes, images from the brew day, and the brew particulars.

Fermentables
7 lbs. – Dark Malt Extract Syrup
1.5 lbs. - Honey
1.25 lbs. – Maple Syrup
1 lbs. - Rye Malt
1 lbs. – American Black Patent

Hops
1.0 oz. – Fuggles 4.6% AA
0.5 oz. – Fuggles 4.6% AA
0.5 oz. – Fuggles 4.6% AA

Yeast
White Labs Irish Ale (WLP004)

Steep black patent and rye for 30 minutes at ~155 F

Add dark malt extract and 1oz of Fuggles hops. Bring up to a boil.

Add honey and 0.5 oz. of Fuggles hops at 15 minutes.

Add maple syrup and the remaining 0.5 oz. of hops at 2 minutes.

Original Gravity1.078	Final Gravity1.022	Color21° SRM(Brown to Dark Brown)
Bitterness4.6 HBU14.5 IBU	Alcohol7.5% A.B.V.5.8% A.B.W.	Calories259 per 12 oz.

Postscript: The fermentation is healthy to say the least.

HOP to It – (Honey-Oat-Pale)

Radd Icenoggle — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:51:06 +0000

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	Malt or Fermentable	ppg	°L
70%	7	Pale Liquid Extract	36	0
20%	2	Honey	35	1
10%	1	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

ale yeast in liquid form with high flocculation

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

Brewing Dandelion Wine or is it mead?

Radd Icenoggle — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:39:26 +0000

Today we made a leap of faith…making dandelion wine. This beverage is a traditional springtime preparation. The recipe I had called for sugar – plain, old suger – and I hate fermentation with just sugar, so I replaced it with organic honey. Is it now dandelion mead?

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