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- Thanks to Steve Boyer for posting this tasty-looking recipe, and
- one quick nag to everyone else: This was the only homebrew recipe posted
- on the forum message board this week. Please share your recipes to help
- build up a great collection in our library!
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- Sb: Brown Squirrel Ale
- Fm: Steve Boyer 73475,1530
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- Here's the lowdown on the Brown Squirrel Ale. Why Brown Squirrel? I have a
- bunch of them in my back yard, and they were what I was looking at when I was
- trying to think up a name..... I set out to make a strong brown ale,,,, and I
- was successful...
-
- 2 cans (8 lbs) Yellow Dog malt extract. 2 1/2 cups light crystal malt, lightly
- crushed (rolling pin), 3/4 cup chocolate malt, lightly crushed, 2 1/2 ounce
- Malto-dextrin powder, 3/4 ounce Chinook hop pellets in boil (30 min), 1 oz.
- Cascade hop pellets last 10 min. 3/4 oz of cascade at very end of boil.. 1 pkg
- yeast nutrient/heading salts...
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- put crystal and choc. malts in 2 1/2 gallons water, heat to 160 then remove
- grains... Put rest of ingredients in (except finish hops) and boil for 40 min.
- 3/4 oz. Chinook hop pellets added at beginning of boil.. At last 10 min. of
- boil, add 1 oz Cascade.. At end of boil add final 3/4 oz. Cascade.. Put the
- entire concoction into a large primary. Add pre-boiled water to make 5 1/2
- gallons. Pitch yeast at 70deg. (I used Doric dry Ale) rack to secondary early
- (3 days?) The large amount of trub loses about 1/2 gallon to get a clean
- secondary!
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- After 3 days in the bottle, I was afraid I had overdone the finishing hops.
- The Cascade came out alittle strong.....But after a month in the bottle, wow,
- the stuff is great!! and STRONG... The great malt taste will really come out
- in the finish and stick with your taste buds a long time! My neighbors are
- from the Phillipines (doctors no less!) They claim it's the first beer they
- have had in the U.S. thats strong enough for there liking....I'm no expert
- brewer, but I think this combo came out pretty darn good, thanks to luck and
- your Yellow Dog..
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