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- Kreiky Knees Ale
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- Ingredients:
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- 3.5 lbs. Brewferm Kriek Kit Malt Extract
- 2.0 lbs (1 can) Edme Supex Malt Extract
- 1/2 oz. Saaz hop pellets (boiling)
- 1/2 oz. Saaz hop pellets (aroma)
- 5.0 lbs Unsweetened frozen cherries (no syrup)
- 1/2 oz. Saaz hops (dry hopped)
- 1 tsp. Irish Moss
- 1 1/2 cup powdered light malt extract (for bottling)
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- Bring 4 litres water to a boil and add boiling hops and extract. Boil for 1/2 hour, add next batch
- of hop pellets and irish moss. Meanwhile, thaw cherries in hot water (less than 60 degrees C)
- and mash up with potato masher or similar instrument of cherry destruction (watch it) and pour
- into empty pot with dry hop pellets. When boil time totals 45 minutes pour boiling wort over
- cherry/hop mixture and let sit for 15-20 minutes with lid on pot. Add entire mixture, including
- mashed up cherries, to enough water to make five and a half US gallons (the solids taken out
- later leave you with about five) and pitch yeast from kit (Belgian) when temp. is about 28
- degrees C. Allow to ferment unitil activity is slowed, then rack to secondary. A "j-tube" is
- useful due to cherry clogging activities. Leave in secondary (I use glass for this) for about 2
- weeks. Rack into clean fermenter containing powdered malt extract boiled in water and bottle
- from this.
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- This beer improves imensely with ageing, starting as a "cherry pie" taste and slowly maturing
- into a slightly sour lambic style kriek impersonator. An additional additive is oak chips,
- included in my latest batch, still in the secondary. They may give a more accurate impression
- of the woody keg taste of, for example Rodenbach type beers. My last batch is about 13 months
- old and is now being served in wine glasses where the beautiful colour (deep dark red) is offset
- by a very white, fine bubbled head.
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- Jeffrey Pinhey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 74040,3137