I'm unemployeed and aside from looking for a job and playing video games, I thought I'd whip up my first recipe for my girlfriend. I'll describe roughly what I'm looking for based on what she likes.
We have a basic brewing kit, would prefer extract since I'm familiar with the process. My fermenter (carboy) sits in a Igloo 60qt cooler and temps are pretty good 55-70ish depending on the amount of water in the frozen 2ltr bottle.
She likes darker beer which typically has a bigger alcohol content it seems and is thicker than light ale's. so..
Jake's Rasberry Ale
5 Gallon batch (3 gallon boil/2 gallon added in fermenter)
Extract w/ grain
Amber in color
thicker than standard ale but not 5w20
alcohol content between 5-7%
prefer wyeast pack since they seem to do so much better
I assume rasberry extract gets added at bottleing??
I also assume I still need bottleing corn sugar??
not too bitter please
I'd do a search for one but I'd kinda like to throw this one together with some help and make it my own. It will also give me something to do aside from be depressed over loseing my job, a job I loved.
She's was very understanding yesterday so this one's for her.
I'm still reading Palmers book, brewing for dummies and 2 other books but I think some hands on would be good at the same time.
Thanks guys/gals.
Jake
We have a basic brewing kit, would prefer extract since I'm familiar with the process. My fermenter (carboy) sits in a Igloo 60qt cooler and temps are pretty good 55-70ish depending on the amount of water in the frozen 2ltr bottle.
She likes darker beer which typically has a bigger alcohol content it seems and is thicker than light ale's. so..
Jake's Rasberry Ale
5 Gallon batch (3 gallon boil/2 gallon added in fermenter)
Extract w/ grain
Amber in color
thicker than standard ale but not 5w20
alcohol content between 5-7%
prefer wyeast pack since they seem to do so much better
I assume rasberry extract gets added at bottleing??
I also assume I still need bottleing corn sugar??
not too bitter please
I'd do a search for one but I'd kinda like to throw this one together with some help and make it my own. It will also give me something to do aside from be depressed over loseing my job, a job I loved.
She's was very understanding yesterday so this one's for her.
I'm still reading Palmers book, brewing for dummies and 2 other books but I think some hands on would be good at the same time.
Thanks guys/gals.
Jake