Lately, the sporadic posts on this blog have been mostly about chemistry. I have seriously neglected posting anything about beer and brewing. How sad.
I plan on brewing tomorrow (I hope). I'm going to make what I call a summer ale. Here is my planned recipe:
Partial mash:
2 3.5 lb pale malt
0.5 lb honey malt
0.5 lb carapils
Boil:
3 lbs light dry malt extract (late addition)
Hops:
Columbus- bittering
Willamette- aroma and flavor
I'm shooting for something lighter in color. The hops are from what I have on hand. I think the Columbus will be nice for bittering. At 14% AA,it won't take much to bitter the beer. The Willamette should provide a nice herbal, earthy flavor that will taste good when I am digging in my garden[1].
Any thoughts?
[1] or trying to kill that stupid rabbit that's decimated my garden.
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3 comments:
Sounds tasty. I've never used honey malt before-- does it actually impart a honey flavor to the beer?
A little. It's subtle, but noticeable. Nothing like actually adding honey. It is kind of like a mild crystal malt.
You know what you need? A spear and magic helmet. That'll go nicely with that light colored, hoppy beer.
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