Honey Basil Ale

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5 gallons, all grain; OG: 1.062; FG: 1.012; SRM: 10 IBU: 25    


Ingredients:


  • 0.25 lb. toasted malt
  • 0.3 lb. wheat malt
  • 6.5 lbs. English mild ale malt
  • 0.5 lb. unpasteurized raw honey
  • 5.5 AAU Willamette hops (1 oz. of 5.5% alpha acid) (60 min.)
  • 0.5 oz. fresh basil leaves
  • 0.5 oz. Willamette hops
  • Wyeast 1052 (American Ale) yeast
  • 3 lbs. pasteurized alfalfa honey
  • 0.6 cup priming sugar
Step by step:


Raise 3 gallons water to 160° F. Add 0.5 lb. unpasteurized raw honey, stir to dissolve, mash in grains and hold for 45 minutes. Sparge with 3 gallons 170° F water and collect 3.5 gallons runoff. Boil 20 minutes. Add hops according to schedule above. Turn off heat, add aroma hops and basil and steep 15 minutes. Chill to 75° F and rack to carboy. Take hydrometer reading of wort. Do not top up. Add yeast. Make honey solution with 2 gallons water and 3 lbs. pasteurized alfalfa honey, to match wort gravity as detailed in article. Put honey solution in a sanitized, sealed glass container. When yeast is at its most active (8-12 hours after pitch), add solution. Ferment at ale temperature 3-4 weeks. Bottle or keg when complete.


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Simple Simon (Gluten Free)

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5 gallons/19 L, extract; 
OG = 1.047; 
FG = 1.011; 
IBU = 22; 
SRM = 8; 
ABV = 4.7%

Ingredients:

  • 6 lb. 11 oz. (3.0 kg) BriesSweet White Sorghum Syrup 45 DE High Maltose
  • 0.50 lbs. (0.23 kg) honey
  • 6 AAU Tettnang hops (60 mins)
  • (1.5 oz./43 g of 4% alpha acids)
  • Danstar Nottingham dried ale yeast
  • 0.75 cups corn sugar (for priming)

Step by Step:

Heat 2.5 gallons (9.5 L) of water to a boil, then stir in sorghum syrup. 

Return wort to a boil, then add hops and boil for 60 minutes. 

At the end of the boil, stir in honey with a sanitized spoon, then cool wort until sides of brewpot are cool to the touch. 

Transfer wort to a sanitized fermenter and top up with water to 5 gallons (19 L). Aerate wort and pitch yeast. 

Ferment at 68 °F (20 °C). Bottle with corn sugar.






Rye Pale Ale

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5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains; 
OG = 1.050  
FG = 1.013; 
IBU = 58 
SRM = 10 
ABV = 4.9% 




Ingredients:
  • 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kg) Coopers Light liquid malt extract
  • 2.0 lbs. (0.9 kg) Coopers Light dried malt extract
  • 1.0 lb. (0.45 kg) rye malt
  • 1.0 lb. (0.45 kg) Munich malt (10 °L)
  • 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) Victory malt
  • 6.0 oz. (170 g) honey malt
  • 10.5 AAU Magnum hops (60 mins) (0.75 oz./21 g of 14% alpha acids)
  • 3.75 AAU Fuggle hops (30 mins) (0.75 oz./21 g of 5% alpha acids)
  • 2.5 AAU Kent Golding hops (20 mins) (0.5 oz./14 g of 5% alpha acids)
  • 2.5 AAU Kent Golding hops (10 mins) (0.5 oz./14 g of 5% alpha acids)
  • 1.0 oz. (28 g) Fuggle hops (0 mins)
  • 2.0 oz. (57 g) Amarillo hops (dry hop)
  • 1.0 tsp. Irish moss (15 mins) White Labs WLP051 (California Ale V) or Wyeast 1332 (Northwest Ale) yeast
  • 0.75 cups corn sugar (for priming)
Step by Step:


Steep crushed malted grain in 2 gallons (7.6 L) of 150 °F (66 °C) water for 30 minutes. Remove the grains, then bring water to a boil.


When boiling starts, stir in the malt syrup. Return to a boil, adding hops at times specified in ingredient list. 


Fill your sanitized carboy with 2 gallons (7.6 L) of cold water.


Strain the hot wort into the carboy and top off to the 5.25-gallon (20-L) mark. Add yeast when beer is less than 78 °F (26 °C) and ferment. 


Add the dry hops when the beer is done fermenting.


Remove the dry hops after about four days. Bottle your beer, age for 2–3 weeks and enjoy!


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