My Next Brew

With the Hard Cider bottled I am moving on to my next brew. This will be my first attempt at brewing beer and I will use a partial mash recipe shared by Red @ red-icculus.com. I was not able to source all the original ingredients and I added honey so the recipe is a bit of a hybrid now. I also decided to reduce the batch to 11.5 liters(3 gal). Here goes the recipe:

Honey Pale Ale

2 lbs Pale Ale Malt
2 lbs Honey Malt
1 lb Pale DME
1 lb Buckwheat Honey
2 oz Cascade Hops
1 oz Saaz Hops
Safbrew T-58 Yeast

• Heat 11.5 liters of water to 65-68c(150-155f), add grain and mash for 60 minutes well maintaining the temp.
• Strain grain out, add DME and bring to boil until hot break occurs then start adding hops.
• 0.5 oz of cascade at :60, :30, :15 and at :01 add the last 0.5 oz cascade and honey
• cool wort to 21c(70f) in an ice water bath and then strain into the carboy
• top up with water to about 12.5 liters, leaving extra for racking loss and aerate.
• pitch rehydrated yeast, install airlock and allow to ferment for 1-2 weeks.
• transfer to a 11.5 liter carboy, leaving little air space and install airlock
• allow to secondary for 1-2 weeks, dry hopping with the 1oz Saaz hops 5-7 day before fermentation is done.

This is my plan and I hope everything goes well. I am planning on starting the ale some evening this week. Pictures of the process will fallow soon after. Once the ale has fermented out I will be bottling in 750ml (25oz) champagne bottle with 29mm crowns.

At the following link are a bunch of pictures of brew day!