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.

Bavarian Lager

Next up is a Bavarian Lager.  I brewed it on 1/19/11.  This recipe is from Mr. Beer, called Prince Ludwig Lager, and I followed the directions pretty close.

RECIPE INCLUDES:
1 Can Octoberfest Vienna Lager HME
1 Can Whispering Wheat Weizenbier HME
2 Packets Dry Brewing Yeast
1 Packet Saaz Pellet Hops (only used 1/4oz and froze the rest for later use)

I plan on letting it ferment for about 3 weeks and will keep you updated on the progress...

So we had a brew night, 2/11/2011.  We bottled the Bavarian Lager and started the next brew as well.  I added 2.25oz of corn sugar to the beer before bottling so it would be evenly distributed (opposed to adding sugar to each beer). 

Tried the first one this past weekend, and overall it was pretty good.  You can smell the wheat in the beer before but has a good finish.