Monday, March 24, 2008

5th Anniversary Ale!!!

Production has begun on the epic 5th Anniversary Ale. This is only my 2nd homemade recipe and it should prove to be memorable. The recipe is very loosely based on a dunkelweizen, though I have added a healthy dose of chocolate malt and am considering the addition of dark chocolate to the secondary. I used 1oz. Saaz hops at 60 minutes for bittering. I nearly had to sell my soul to talk the folks at Jim's Homebrew in Spokane into letting me buy this 1oz. of Saaz hops and I am incredibly grateful. If you're in Spokane, I suggest you check them out.

This is not a big beer such as my last few have been and weighs in at an original gravity of 1.051. Fermentation actively began overnight and I've had to install a blowoff tube to keep up with it, as shown in the image below.

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