Thursday, March 3, 2011

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.

4 comments:

  1. Sounds like you're getting into this beer making. Let's get drunk!

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  2. As for a name, why don't you go with the "columbus steamer" a knock off of the cleveland steamer....

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cleveland%20steamer

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  3. I don't think that will be an appropriate name...and how did you find that?

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  4. don't worry about where I found it. I think that deserves its own post. How about naming it......Really all I can think about is the Cleveland Steamer. Sorry if I ruined this one for you!!!

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