India Bilge Ale
By: Beau BurkeStyle: English IPA
OG: 1.058
FG: 1.015
Recipe Type: Extract
The name pretty much says it all. Second beer I ever brewed, second brew I ever ruined. A wise man probably would have given up and went back to basket weaving, but I've got a double curse. I can be dumb and I'm stubborn as hell, so I keep persevering.
This second batch had all the problems as the first one, sans some cooling problems. Water wasn't boiled beforehand and used the same suspect Cascade hop pellets from filthy local homebrew shop. You can rest assured that those mistakes will never again be made in my kitchen.
This second batch had all the problems as the first one, sans some cooling problems. Water wasn't boiled beforehand and used the same suspect Cascade hop pellets from filthy local homebrew shop. You can rest assured that those mistakes will never again be made in my kitchen.
Ingredients
- 3 lb Amber DME
- 3 lb Amber LME
- 1/2 lb Crystal Malt
- 1/2 lb American two-row
- 2 oz Chinook pellets
- 2 oz Cascade pellets
- White Labs British Ale yeast
Procedure
- Toast 1/4 lb crystal malt and 1/4 lb two-row for 10 minutes in a 350F oven.
- Steep toasted and untoasted grain in 150F water for 30 minutes.
- Remove grain and bring water to boil.
- Boil extract and 1 oz Chinook pellets for 60 minutes.
- Add 1 oz Chinook pellets with 1 minute remaining.
- Sparge into 3 gl cold water.
- Top off to 5 gl.
Ferment
- Pitched White Labs tube directly at 65F.
- Racked into secondary 3 days later (1.019) with 2 oz Cascade pellets.
- Bottled with corn sugar after two weeks.
Notes
- I'm never going to dry-hop with pellets again. They stir up easily and got into a bunch of bottles.