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No BiB or fancy electric kettle today. I have used both methods before. What my friend Steve and I did today was very different. We brewed a stone ale. I am calling it B&S Smash Stone Ale.
At 9 a.m. I built a fire over a pile of stones. At 10:30 we started adding the very hot rocks to a10 gallon kettle. We finished at 12:30 had a home brew and Steves wife made us lunch'
I used 8 Lbs. of some malt I had with no tag to tell me what it was and a Hallertau magnum AA 14% and 5 or 6 gallons of water. The malt had been hanging around for sometime and the hops were the first one out of the bag that I grabbed (leaving it to fate).
We got 3 gallons of wort I pitched a Kviek Mangrove Jack M12 yeast at 35 celcius (95F)
It was a fun brew day will try it again.
Well it is JUNE 26th and I have bottled the stone beer. (B&S Viking Ale ,Stone Smash ). It came out to about 3%. The taste is smokey it would pair well with smoked oysters. My wife, and most honest critic , said it was "drinkable" high praise indeed.
I had to sample it of course early this morning (8:00 am) when I took the FG reading I drank what was left in the hydometer tube. "Beer not just for breakfast anymore" It was "drinkable"
At 9 a.m. I built a fire over a pile of stones. At 10:30 we started adding the very hot rocks to a10 gallon kettle. We finished at 12:30 had a home brew and Steves wife made us lunch'
I used 8 Lbs. of some malt I had with no tag to tell me what it was and a Hallertau magnum AA 14% and 5 or 6 gallons of water. The malt had been hanging around for sometime and the hops were the first one out of the bag that I grabbed (leaving it to fate).
We got 3 gallons of wort I pitched a Kviek Mangrove Jack M12 yeast at 35 celcius (95F)
It was a fun brew day will try it again.
Well it is JUNE 26th and I have bottled the stone beer. (B&S Viking Ale ,Stone Smash ). It came out to about 3%. The taste is smokey it would pair well with smoked oysters. My wife, and most honest critic , said it was "drinkable" high praise indeed.
I had to sample it of course early this morning (8:00 am) when I took the FG reading I drank what was left in the hydometer tube. "Beer not just for breakfast anymore" It was "drinkable"
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