Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: Wyeast 1056
Yeast Starter: 1600 ml
Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: Starter made with 100 ml of slurry from previous batch
Batch Size (Gallons): 5.05
Original Gravity: 1.072
Final Gravity: 1.014
IBU: 48.7
Boiling Time (Minutes): 105
Color: 23
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 24 days at 66 F.
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 25 days at 62 F
Tasting Notes: A typical Northwest X-Mas beer, this is basically a strong brown ale.

I wanted to try Palisade hops and so concocted this guy. There's a lot of earthy character from the EKGS, with a lot of spice from the Palisades and Cascades in the flavor. Complex beer. Very malty too. Aroma has a lot of bread and some caramel with a touch of chocolate malt and some earthy hops. Very full mouthfull with some alcohol evident. A strong but very clean bittering that lingers long. Finish is medium dry with a lot of toast and bitterness.

Quite happy with this one.

Type: All Grain
Date: 10/4/2009
Batch Size: 19.10 L
Brewer: Matt
Boil Size: 30.47 L
Boil Time: 105 min
Equipment: RIMS and 10 gallon boiler

Ingredients

Grain (only % given to make it easy to plug in regardless of efficiency)

Castle Pale Malt (Belgian)(3.6 SRM) 89.96 %
Crystal Malt -150 (76.1 SRM) 3.00 %
Crystal Malt -350 (177.7 SRM) 3.00 %
Crystal Malt - 50 (25.4 SRM) 2.25 %
Chocolate Malt (340.0 SRM) 1.35 %
Black Malt (566.0 SRM) 0.45 %

Hops (Palisade and EKGS pellets, Cascade are plugs):

26.00 gm Palisade [6.70 %] (105 min) (First Wort Hop) 29.9 IBU
7.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.80 %] (105 min) (First Wort Hop) 5.8 IBU

15.00 gm Palisade [6.70 %] (30 min) 8.0 IBU

15.00 gm Cascade [8.70 %] (15 min) 5.0 IBU

30.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.80 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep)

1.50 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min)

Beer Profile

Measured Original Gravity: 1.072 SG
Measured Final Gravity: 1.014 SG
Actual Alcohol by Vol: 7.58 %
Bitterness: 48.7 IBU
Est Color: 23.0 SRM

Mash Profile

Sparge Water: 16.14 L
Sparge Temperature: 169.0 F
Mash PH: 5.4 PH

Use 3.15 liters of water per kilo of grain or 1.51 quarts per pound of water to achieve:

60 min Step 149.0 F
10 min Step 168.0 F