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Heather Ale
Specialty Beer • Extract • 5 gal
Have had this recipe and others similar to it for quite some time. Haven't had the opportunity to brew it yet. If you do, please send me a sample.
February 5, 2002 am 01:20am
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Ingredients (Extract, 5 gal)
- 1 lbs
Belgian Cara-Pils
Belgian Cara-Pils
Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.
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Crystal Malt 20°L
Crystal Malt 20°L
Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.
- .5 lbs
Crystal Malt 40°L
Crystal Malt 40°L
Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.
- .125 lbs
English Chocolate Malt
English Chocolate Malt
Dark malt that gives a rich red or brown color and nutty flavor. Use for: Brown ales, porters, some stouts Maintains some malty flavor, not as dark as roasted malt.
- 7 lbs
Pale Liquid; Alexanders
Pale Liquid; Alexanders
Reportedly lightest colored malt extract available.
- 1 oz
Fuggle - 4.2 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
Fuggle
Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.
- .5 oz
Fuggle - 4.2 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min
Fuggle
Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.
-
Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale™
Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale™
Ideally suited for Scottish-style ales, and high gravity ales of all types.
Notes
HOP ADDITIONS ARE OPTIONAL. THERE ARE NO BITTERING HOPS AS THE HEATHER ACTS AS YOUR BITTERING AGENT. Approximate adjustments accounting for heather color and bitterness. Color = 18 SRM Bitterness = 23 IBUs Head color may have slight purple pigment. 3 cups fresh or 1 1/2 cups dry heather flowers (1/2 added for 60 minutes, 1/2 added at end of boil) At beginning of boil add first addition of heather flowers. Continue for remaining 60 minutes. Whirlpool and add second addition of heather flowers. Cool to 69° F to pitch starter. Oxygenate-aerate well. Ferment at 69° F for seven days then rack to secondary fermenter. Continue fermentation for seven more days until gravity is about 1.012 or fermentation is finished. Bottle using 2/3 cup corn sugar and age AT LEAST 2 weeks.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 23 - Specialty Beer
Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.057 | 1.026 - 1.120 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.014 | 0.995 - 1.035 | |
| Color: | 15.8 SRM | 1 - 50 | |
| Alcohol: | 5.7% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 5.5 IBU | 0 - 100 | |
Discussion
Brewed One Similar
2002-02-19 7:16am
I brewed a similar heather ale, based on a Scottish Ale recipe. I would cut back on the heather next time around - it's EXTREMELY floral!
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