EugeneStyles
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So, I just finished brewing my first batch with a friend of mine. Oatmeal Stout from a recipe. It looked great and tasted awesome, and my buddy tells me it is puttering away in the carboy as we speak. So far, so good. We'll see what it's like in a few weeks...
Anyway, it's probably intelligent to stick to tested recipes for the first few beers, but personally, I don't want to. I decided to start homebrewing in order to make my own weird concoctions. Peated Scotch Ales, Raspberry Browns, Steam Eis Bocks, etc... So, I'm trying to put together my first recipe for whenever we rack the Oatmeal Stout to secondary. The idea to make a mint beer popped into my head a couple of weeks ago, and I decided I wanted to make something thematically similar to S.S. Winter Welcome (in that it is a lighter Winter Warmer, rather than a stout - not that I somehow think that WW has mint in it).
I don't know exactly what I'm doing, but I'm trying to figure out what I want *before* I go to the homebrew store (my partner in crime went by himself to get ingredients last time - I had to work), and have been researching stuff (online and at the library) for a couple of weeks. Therefore the hop AAU% are approximate, and I'm not sure what "Pilsner Extract Lager" is, much less if it will be available here, but here's a first crack at it. Please help me out. Tell me what I'm about to screw up, and let me know if you even think it's a good idea to brew with mint... :cross:
Peppermint Pale Ale
6 lbs. Pilsner Malt Extract Syrup
2.5 lbs. Crystal 20L
.5 lb. Belgian Wheat
.5 lb. Cara-Pils
1 tsp. Gypsum
1 Tbsp. Irish Moss
.7 oz. Northern Brewer ~8% AAU (60 min. boil)
1 oz. Mount Hood ~5% AAU (15 min. boil)
2 oz. Fresh Mint (15 min. boil)
3 oz. Fresh Mint (dry-"hopped")
Anyway, it's probably intelligent to stick to tested recipes for the first few beers, but personally, I don't want to. I decided to start homebrewing in order to make my own weird concoctions. Peated Scotch Ales, Raspberry Browns, Steam Eis Bocks, etc... So, I'm trying to put together my first recipe for whenever we rack the Oatmeal Stout to secondary. The idea to make a mint beer popped into my head a couple of weeks ago, and I decided I wanted to make something thematically similar to S.S. Winter Welcome (in that it is a lighter Winter Warmer, rather than a stout - not that I somehow think that WW has mint in it).
I don't know exactly what I'm doing, but I'm trying to figure out what I want *before* I go to the homebrew store (my partner in crime went by himself to get ingredients last time - I had to work), and have been researching stuff (online and at the library) for a couple of weeks. Therefore the hop AAU% are approximate, and I'm not sure what "Pilsner Extract Lager" is, much less if it will be available here, but here's a first crack at it. Please help me out. Tell me what I'm about to screw up, and let me know if you even think it's a good idea to brew with mint... :cross:
Peppermint Pale Ale
6 lbs. Pilsner Malt Extract Syrup
2.5 lbs. Crystal 20L
.5 lb. Belgian Wheat
.5 lb. Cara-Pils
1 tsp. Gypsum
1 Tbsp. Irish Moss
.7 oz. Northern Brewer ~8% AAU (60 min. boil)
1 oz. Mount Hood ~5% AAU (15 min. boil)
2 oz. Fresh Mint (15 min. boil)
3 oz. Fresh Mint (dry-"hopped")