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Beautiful Basic Light Ale

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Beautiful Basic Light Ale

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Beer Style: Cream Ale  (6A)
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 5 US gallons

Cream Ale

Description:

Color is golden and crystal clear. After 2 weeks in the bottle it holds a snow-white head. Flavor is clean with a touch of bitterness and finishes dry (the hops linger a bit). When served very cold in a frosted glass, it is very crisp and refreshing. At 4.2% you can enjoy several with friends on a hot day without filling up. And at around $20 for 50 bottles, it's damn cheap! This is a simple and quick brew that you can play with and see results quickly. Makes a great base for berry beers (add berries at secondary and set for a full week). Hops should be cut in half for berry beers, dry Nottingham yeast will sweeten the finish.

Ingredients:

  • 6 lbs Pilsen malt extract
  • 3oz Cascade hops
  • 1 tsp irish moss
  • English ale yeast (White Labs WLP002)
  • 3/4 cup corn sugar (priming)
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Additional Instructions

Primary Ferment: Racked to secondary after 8 days
Secondary Ferment: Only 2 days in secondary (mostly to settle the flu

Beer Profile

Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.008
Alcohol by Vol: 4.19%
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 5.00 US Gallons

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Procedure:

Bring 2 gallons water to a boil and remove from heat.
Add the extract and fully dissolve. Return to heat and bring to a boil.
Add 2 oz Cascade hops and start 60 minute timer.
After 15 minutes, add irish moss.
After 59 minutes, add 1 oz Cascade hops.
After 60 minutes, remove from heat and strain into 2 gallons cold water in a sanitized fermentor.
Top fermentor off to 5 1/2 gallons (I "sparge" cold water through my spent hops in this step).
Cool wort to 73 degrees and pitch your yeast.

Source:

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Brown Box Beer Kits make 5 gallons of homebrew and are proudly made from the freshest ingredients available. All Brown Box Beer's kit building ingredients turn over every 7-10 days so there is none of this setting around in a pre-made kit in a box, on a shelf, for who knows how long. All grains are milled at the time your order is filled and shipped. Some substitutions may be made to the original recipe on this page due to ingredient availabilities. Please refer to the box contents on the next page to see what your box will contain.

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