Homebrewing For The Uninitiated And Brave
Another week, another brew. I tried http://www.homebrewden.com & had them ship me their Dog & Crown Pale Ale kit. It shipped with White Labs pitchable liquid yeast. I substituted Glacier hops for the Kent Golding aroma hops also. Here’s the qbrew file and here’s the html page.
I found this on a forum somewhere and adjusted it very slightly.
Abita TurboDog
(5 gallons/19 L, extract w/ grains)
OG=1.054 FG=1.014, IBU=32-34
Ingredients
5 lbs Muntons unhopped light dry malt extract
1.25 lbs crystal malt (Schreier crsytal 100 or Muntons crystal dark)
0.5 lbs chocolate malt
7 aau’s Chinook Hops (0.6 oz of 12% aa)
5 aau’s Willamette Hops (1.25 oz of [...]
Today I’m brewing an Abita TurboDog clone & using liquid yeast. I’m reading up on that here: John Palmer’s HOW TO BREW
I’ll update this post with the recipe and any tips/tricks (a/k/a fuck-ups) I discover.
I’m using White Labs Pitchable Liquid Yeast–more specifically the California V Ale Yeast (WLP051).