brew #005: bad, bad brown ale

Finally! I’ve been building up the brewery for almost 3 months now and finally all the equipment I need to brew great beer is in place and ready to go. 10 gallon stock pot (with 2000W supplemental heatstick)? Check. Immersion chiller? Check. Some experience and lessons learned? Check!
This recipe is a take off of one from Dogfish head founder Sam Calagione’s book, “Extreme Brewing“. This day did not go off without a hitch though; after deicing my refrig I put it on max to recover. Unfortunately, I did not turn it back in time and most everything inside was zapped with ice…including my Wyeast Irish Ale activator pack. I attempted to revive the suckers with a starter but 24 hrs later I still had only a small colony. With the help of my buddy Adam, we grabbed another smack pack and pitched it along with the starter colony – sort of the ~200 billion Mr. Malty tells us – but the best we could do. It’s bubbling furiously now so we will see how it turns out!


Ingredients
6.00 lb Amber Liquid Extract (12.5 SRM) 70.6 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt – 80L (80.0 SRM) 5.9 %
1.00 lb Candi Sugar, Clear (0.5 SRM) 11.8 %
0.50 lb Brown Sugar, Dark (50.0 SRM) 5.9 %
0.50 lb Molasses (80.0 SRM) 5.9 %

0.90 oz Northern Brewer [8.50%] (60 min) 27.5 IBU
0.50 oz Cluster [7.10%] (30 min) 9.8 IBU
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [4.20%] (10 min) -
0.10 oz Northern Brewer [8.50%] (5 min) -

1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min) Misc

1 Pkgs Irish Ale (White Labs #WLP004) Yeast-Ale

The Brew
Soundtrack: A Day to Remember…then Jenny watched Heroes.
Brew Beer: Simcoe Circle Pit, Convocation IPA, Magic Hat No. 9


Stats
Original Gravity: 1.057 [1.059 target, nice!]
Final Gravity: 1.009
Est. ABV: 6.1%
IBU: 37 [Tinseth]
Color: 17.5 SRM
Brewed: 7/11/09
Bottled: 7/23/09

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