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- CATSKILL YELLOW CAT SPRINGWATER
- "VERNAL EQUINOX" COPENHAGEN-STYLE ALE
- By Robin Garr
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- This is the best beer I've made yet! Although I don't attribute its
- success so much to my skill as to the combination of good ingredients
- (quality extract and liquid yeast) and good equipment (8-gallon brewpot and
- wort chiller), I'm still proud of it.
- It wouldn't do in a contest, because it's a recipe of my own invention
- rather than an effort to emulate a particular style, but it's sure a tasty
- Northern European-type brown ale, a "gourmet quality" beer that wouldn't be
- out of place on the fanciest dinner table.
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- INGREDIENTS
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- 1 can (4 pounds) Doric Danmark Lager Extract (hopped).
- 1 1/2 pounds Edme Light Dry Malt Extract (DME)
- 2 cups Crystal Malt (whole, uncrushed)
- 1 ounce Northern Brewer Hops Pellets
- 1/4 teaspoon Irish Moss
- 1/2 ounce Hallertauer Hops Pellets
- 1/2 ounce Tettnanger Hops Pellets
- 1 packet WYeast European Ale Yeast (Strain No. 1338)
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- PROCEDURE
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- 1. Dissolve DME in five gallons cold water in large brewpot.
- 2. Place crystal malt (in grain bag) in the cold water/extract mix and
- steep while heating until temperature reaches 170 degrees. Discard grains.
- 3. Bring to full boil and stir in Doric Danmark Lager extract, using hot water from the pot to get the last bit out of the can.
- 4. Add Northern Brewer hops pellets.
- 5. Maintain at rolling boil, stirring frequently, for a full 60 minutes,
- adding water periodically to maintain level at 5 gallons.
- 6. Add Irish Moss for last 20 minutes of the boil.
- 7. Add Hallertauer and Tettnanger hops at the end of boil, immediately
- AFTER turning off the heat.
- 8. Cool rapidly, using wort chiller.
- 9. Pitch yeast at 70 degrees or below.
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- OG was 1.042 at 70 degrees. I got good krauesen within 48 hours, and
- continued fermenting in primary at ambient air temperature (around 65 to 70)
- for nine days (I would have racked to secondary sooner, but I was out of town)
- and in secondary for an additional five days, a total of two weeks
- fermentation to FG 1.010 at 69 degrees.
- Primed with 2/3 corn sugar boiled for five minutes in 1 cup water, and
- bottled in a combination of 12-ounce longnecks and 16-ounce and 22-ounce
- Grolsch-type brown bottles.
- The beer was surprisingly well conditioned by April 13, within six days
- after bottling and two days less than three weeks after brewing! It is
- already brilliantly clear, no sign of chill haze in a dark, coppery-amber
- brew with a rich, foamy head that leaves good "lace;" very attractive hops
- nose and a full-bodied, malty flavor with a nice (not estery) touch of fruit
- and a good balance of hops bitterness and malty sweetness. A FINE brew!
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- If you try this recipe or a variation based on it, please let me know
- how your efforts worked out.
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