- Recipe Type
- Extract
- Yeast
- 7g Cooper\\'s dry ale yeast
- Yeast Starter
- 2C boiled water re-hydrate
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 23L,or 6 gallon
- Original Gravity
- 1.050
- Final Gravity
- 1.010
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 25 mins
- Color
- drk brown
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 15 days @ 68F
- Tasting Notes
- tastes like a dark cream ale with ruby hints when held up to the light.
1) can Cooper's OS dark ale
3lbs Munton's plain amber DME
1oz East Kent Golding pellet hops
1oz German Haulertauer pellet hops
7g Cooper's dry ale yeast,re-hydrated
Boil 2.5 gallons of water in BK,then measure 1.5lbs of the plain amber DME & stir into boiling water till completely dissolved. Put 1oz EKG in hop sack & add to boil. Set timer at 20 minutes.
@ 10 minutes,add .5oz German Haulertauer in hop sack,stiring occasionally. At flame out,add remaining DME & stir to dissolve. Then dito with the Cooper's dark ale can,rinsing can into BK. Add remaining .5oz Haulertauer in sack,cover & steep 15 minutes. **You could even do this last hop addition @ 3 minutes left in the boil for the same aroma hit. Don't worry,the wort is still plenty hot enough at flame out to get these steps done if you work quickly & accurately.
After steeping,place BK in kitchen sink,fill empty space around kettle with ice to the top of the sink bowl. Then top that off with really cold water. A floating thermometer in the BK will serve well here to see when it gets down to 65-70 F. Sanitize cleaned FV with starsan,then place fine mesh strainer ofer top of FV,pouring chilled wort & top off water through it in a circular motion. This'll keep several small streams like a shower coming out of it into FV. Aerates better that way.
Then stir with long spoon or plastic paddle for 5 minutes strainght,roughly. More aeration & better mixing of wort & top off water. Take hydrometer sample,then stir & pour in re-hydrated yeast cream. Seal,add airlock,& fill airlock with cheap vodka. Cover with dark tee shirt or use whatever fermentarion temp control box,etc you have.
I wound up needing a blow off for this one,so you may as well rig that from the get go.
I didn't have my digital scale yet,so I primed with 1C dextrose in 2C of boiled water cooled after stiring the corn sugar into it. Racked the ale onto it,then stired gently so as not to aerate. Yield was 64/12oz bottles.
3lbs Munton's plain amber DME
1oz East Kent Golding pellet hops
1oz German Haulertauer pellet hops
7g Cooper's dry ale yeast,re-hydrated
Boil 2.5 gallons of water in BK,then measure 1.5lbs of the plain amber DME & stir into boiling water till completely dissolved. Put 1oz EKG in hop sack & add to boil. Set timer at 20 minutes.
@ 10 minutes,add .5oz German Haulertauer in hop sack,stiring occasionally. At flame out,add remaining DME & stir to dissolve. Then dito with the Cooper's dark ale can,rinsing can into BK. Add remaining .5oz Haulertauer in sack,cover & steep 15 minutes. **You could even do this last hop addition @ 3 minutes left in the boil for the same aroma hit. Don't worry,the wort is still plenty hot enough at flame out to get these steps done if you work quickly & accurately.
After steeping,place BK in kitchen sink,fill empty space around kettle with ice to the top of the sink bowl. Then top that off with really cold water. A floating thermometer in the BK will serve well here to see when it gets down to 65-70 F. Sanitize cleaned FV with starsan,then place fine mesh strainer ofer top of FV,pouring chilled wort & top off water through it in a circular motion. This'll keep several small streams like a shower coming out of it into FV. Aerates better that way.
Then stir with long spoon or plastic paddle for 5 minutes strainght,roughly. More aeration & better mixing of wort & top off water. Take hydrometer sample,then stir & pour in re-hydrated yeast cream. Seal,add airlock,& fill airlock with cheap vodka. Cover with dark tee shirt or use whatever fermentarion temp control box,etc you have.
I wound up needing a blow off for this one,so you may as well rig that from the get go.
I didn't have my digital scale yet,so I primed with 1C dextrose in 2C of boiled water cooled after stiring the corn sugar into it. Racked the ale onto it,then stired gently so as not to aerate. Yield was 64/12oz bottles.
