Rye Aren't You Drinking This?

Rye adds a whole new demension to the flavor of your beer. I suggest trying a one(or three). You have to give it a couple of sips (think of the first time you had a really dry red wine: you have to give the taste buds a chance to wake up) but it tastes so good once it hits your lips. I have a feeling this one is gonna have a high ABV....


Ingredients:

12 oz. Rye Malt
4 oz. Wheat malt
6 oz. Caramel 40L
4 oz. Flaked rye specialty grains
6 lb. Wheat liquid malt extract
1 oz. French Strisselspalt bittering hops
1 oz. Hersbrucker pellet hops
White Labs American Hefeweisen Yeast

Steep Grains for 20 min at 165. Add Strisselspalt hops and boil for 60 minutes. Add the Hersbrucker hops after 30 minutes.

OG: 1.048
FG: 1.010

ABV: 4.99%

Hoppy McHopperson's Pale Ale

In retrospect, its not as hoppy as the title implies, but still a solid pale ale. The dry hopping is a good technique that adds a nice finish to this beer. It's probably the second best batch yet.

Ingredients:

4 gallons of tap water
8 oz. Caramel 10L
8 oz. Carapils
6 lbs of light malt extract
2 oz. Perle pelle hops
2 oz. Cascade pellet hops
White Labs California Ale Yeast
2 oz. Cascade pellet hops - reserved for dry-hopping


Steep grains at 155 for 30 minutes. Bring to a boil and add LME. Add 2 oz. of Perle bittering hops and boil for 60 minutes. Add 2 oz. of cascade hops the last 2 min of boil. After 3 days in primary add the additional 2 oz of cascade hops directly to fermenter.

OG: 1.046
FG: 1.010

ABV: 4.78%

Full Steam Ahead?? Name, Ideas?

Still working on the name for this one, on 2/26/11 Urban and I had a full beer evening.  We bottled King Romer's Cream Ale and Hoppy McHopperson Pale Ale, sampled the Boundary Waters Wheat and Bavarian Lager AND whipped up a batch of Full Steam Ahead (version of anchor steam) and a Rye Beer (name to come later from Urban, but I think Ry's Beer sounds good)...

Anyways, I bought a 8 gallon stock pot, yea that is a lot of chili, so we would have a big brewing pot as we get better at this brewing thing.  Here is the recipe:

I used 5.5 gallons of water for the boil
Steeped grains for 20 min at 155 degrees

1 oz. northern brewer hops - boil for 60 mins

1 oz cascade hops last 2 minutes

Pitch yeast at 80 degrees

The OG reading is 1.0458 taken at 80 degrees

Let it ferment for a couple of weeks then we bottle in preparation for our Weekend at Wesley's!

 

This turned out to be a really good beer.  Not exactly like Anchor Steam but a good beer that I would make again.