GreenDragon
Well-Known Member
So I wanted to do an AG version of the White House Honey Ale. In my infinite wisdom I walked blindly into my local homebrew store and asked them if they could convert it to AG for me.
This should have been my warning: The employees original estimate came to a 14lbs grain bill. I informed him this is only supposed to be a 5.3%abv beer and that sounded kind of high. He said I must have a better efficiency than most of his customers and then cut it down to a little over 12lbs.
Well I brewed last Saturday. Everything went really well, I nailed my mash temp on the button.. 153F. I did a 70min mash, then a 60 minute boil, and kept to the hop schedule on the official recipe. I swapped local Kansas honey in place of the White House Honey, and added it for the last 5 minutes of the boil.
I chilled it down, hit it with O2, and took a OG reading... 1.070!!! Yeah, this could be some "interesting" beer. Too late to worry about it now. Figured if it ends up crazy harsh after the primary I can always dry hop it.
This should have been my warning: The employees original estimate came to a 14lbs grain bill. I informed him this is only supposed to be a 5.3%abv beer and that sounded kind of high. He said I must have a better efficiency than most of his customers and then cut it down to a little over 12lbs.
Well I brewed last Saturday. Everything went really well, I nailed my mash temp on the button.. 153F. I did a 70min mash, then a 60 minute boil, and kept to the hop schedule on the official recipe. I swapped local Kansas honey in place of the White House Honey, and added it for the last 5 minutes of the boil.
I chilled it down, hit it with O2, and took a OG reading... 1.070!!! Yeah, this could be some "interesting" beer. Too late to worry about it now. Figured if it ends up crazy harsh after the primary I can always dry hop it.