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Homebrewing Recipe
Hi haven’t posted on Raga for a while. I recently won a home brew contest here is my recipe for the strong ale that won. It comes out around 10% Alcohol and is very hoppy 170 IBUs!
First get 2 gal of water into a 8.5 gal pot. heat up the pot to 155F/ 68C or so about. Crush 2 row malt 2 pounds put it into a steeping bag and add teaspoon of loose black tea to the steeping bag. Steep for 30 minutes then remove the bag. the next boil the water then remove from hot stove. Put the Liquid Amber Malt Extract 4 pounds under hot water for 5 minutes to loose up the extract then stir in the extract into the water make sure it never touches the bottom of the pot. then return the pot to hot stove boil the wort. Keep an eye on the wort it could boil over so pay attention. Now You add the hops add .5 0z of Chinook hop pellets. then 15 minutes later add .5 oz of Cascade hop pellets. then 15 minutes later add .5oz Centennial hops pellets. After 5 minutes add 1 oz Columbus hop pellets then 10 minutes add .5 oz Willamette hop pellets and finally add .5 oz of Crystal hop pellets for the last 3 minutes of the boil.
Pour beer into the primary fermenter add a gallon of water pour then back in forth between the pot and fermenter 10 times to aerate the wort so the yeast works best.
the add the dry yeast safale us-05 dry yeast after 30 minutes of rest. leave in the fermenter for 8 days then add bottling sugar and bottle the beer. After three weeks bottle fermenting open a beer enjoy it slowly since it is savoring ale
batch makes 36 beers or so ranging in quality since it is unfiltered hop and yeast wise.
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