MoreBeer! Kit #118
6 lbs. ultralight malt extract syrup
0.5 lbs light dry malt extract
0.5 lbs Carastan malt
1 oz. Kent Goldings hops (bittering)
2 oz. Kent Goldings hops (flavoring)
1 oz. Kent Goldings hops (aroma)
1 tablet Whirlfloc clarifying agent
1 vial White Labs English Ale Yeast (strain #WLP002 )
Added the Carastan malt to 4.5 gals cool water and allowed to steep as water heated on stove. Removed grain when water reached 170°F.
When water boiled, turned off heat and added malt extracts. Returned to boil and added bittering hops.
At 55 minutes added flavoring hops and Whirlfloc tablet.
At 58 minutes added aroma hops.
Total boil time 60 minutes.
Cool and rack to fermenter. Gallons left in pot at end of boil: 4. Gallons lost to boiling: 0.5. Gallons of cold water in fermenter: 1.25
# of gallons in fermenter: 5.25
December 27, 2008: Kegged the beer. This one dropped A LOT of sediment. Lost a good gallon or more to the sediment layer.
Tastes good, with no sign of the off-flavor that marred the wheat ale, so I surmise that it was the water. Hopefully nothing will develop. Put keg in kegerator, set psi to 12.
January 13, 2009: Not yet fully carbonated to proper level as the psi dropped to about 7 when the canister cooled in the keggerator while we were away. Beer tastes very nice.
