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Clark Kent

Clark Kent

Dark Mild • All Grain • 5.5 gal

Al Boyce

This beer won the Best of Show at the 2006 Minnesota State Fair homebrew competition

March 21, 2008 pm 05:35pm

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Ingredients (All Grain5.5 gal)

  • 7.3 lbs Golden Promise Pale

    Golden Promise Pale

    An especially sweet and clean variety of barley which results in full and malty sweet beer. It has superb hush integrity and delivers fast and consistent mash tun drainage. This malt variety is perfect for brewing up a clear, bright pint.

  • 3/8 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.

  • .25 lbs Crystal Malt 120°L

    Crystal Malt 120°L

    Pronounced caramel flavor and a red color. For stouts, porters and black beers.

  • 1.25 lbs Crystal Malt 80°L

    Crystal Malt 80°L

    Body and Richness. Distictive Nutty flavor and or sweet, smooth caramel flavor and a red to deep red color. For porters, old ales.

  • 1 oz Brambling Cross - 6.0 AA% pellets; boiled 45 min

    Brambling Cross

    Grandparent of Saxon and Viking, they have a unique toasty, buttery, slighly resiny aroma with some woody notes.

  • White Labs WLP013 London Ale

    White Labs WLP013 London Ale

    Dry, malty ale yeast. Provides a complex, oakey ester character to your beer. Hop bitterness comes through well. This yeast is well suited for classic British pale ales, bitters, and stouts. Does not flocculate as much as WLP002 and WLP005.

Notes

based on 2003 AHA NHC Gold Medal Winner - "King Ghob's Mild" by Roxanne Hastings of Edmonton, AB Mash: 153F - 60min Primary: 4 days @ 65F Secondary: 14 days @65F

Style (BJCP)

Category: 13 - Brown British Beer

Subcategory: A - Dark Mild

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.038 1.030 - 1.038
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 1.008 - 1.013
Color: 22.1 SRM 14 - 25
Alcohol: 3.5% ABV 3% - 3.8%
Bitterness: 23.9 IBU 10 - 25

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