Brutal Winter Ale

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tbeard

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Location
Montana
Recipe Type
All Grain
Yeast
White Labs WLP001
Yeast Starter
No
Batch Size (Gallons)
5
Original Gravity
1.54
Final Gravity
1.18
Boiling Time (Minutes)
60
Color
Dark Amber
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
16 @ 60
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
24 @ 60
Additional Fermentation
10 after amylase addition
Tasting Notes
Came out too sweet but worked very well with an additional dry hopping in the keg
Ingredients
10lb 2-row (rahr)
1lb caramel 40L (briess)
1lb Biscuit Malt (Castle)
1 oz cascade pellets flavor
1 oz cascade pellets aroma
1 oz Mt hood Pellets bittering

Mash
Protein rest 133F 30 min
157F for 50 min
159F 30 min
167F 30 min
Sparge 4 gallons 170F

Boil
60 min w/ Mt Hood
15 min w/ cascade
flameout w/ cascade

At tertiery fermentation added one Super Papaya enzyme plus tablet, this contains some awesome enzymes, papain, amylase, proteases, lipases and cellulases. Fermentation really took off again after enzyme addition.

Kegged on top of 2 oz of Mt Hood leaf hops after 50 days fermentation total
 

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