IDK Ale
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:17 pm
An excerpt from my brewblog:
I was walking through the garage while brewing when I came across a "Make Your Own Beer" kit that had made its way to my shelf. I opened it out of curiosity and found some liquid malt extract and hops... so I decided to take those ingredients and whatever else I could find and make a kitchen sink ale.
I ended up putting in what was in the kit (some amber malt extract and some light malt extract), two pounds of light dry malt extract I had, some dextrose, some mollasses... and about 2.5 gallons of water. I added an ounce of Columbus hops that I had in my freezer and boiled for 60 minutes. At flame-out I threw in some Mt. Hood for aroma, again, just because I had them lying around.
After I cooled it, I had about 2 gallons at an OG of 1.100! I added about one and a quarter gallons of water to get the OG down to the high 50's and pitched a few packets of dry ale yeast I had (one from the kit).
We will see what happens! Either it will be terrible, or great, or not. Either way, it should be interesting! Since I don't know what it is or will become, I was going to call it Uhhh... Ale, but my fiance suggested a spin on the IPA and calling it an IDK (I Dont Know) Ale!
I was walking through the garage while brewing when I came across a "Make Your Own Beer" kit that had made its way to my shelf. I opened it out of curiosity and found some liquid malt extract and hops... so I decided to take those ingredients and whatever else I could find and make a kitchen sink ale.
I ended up putting in what was in the kit (some amber malt extract and some light malt extract), two pounds of light dry malt extract I had, some dextrose, some mollasses... and about 2.5 gallons of water. I added an ounce of Columbus hops that I had in my freezer and boiled for 60 minutes. At flame-out I threw in some Mt. Hood for aroma, again, just because I had them lying around.
After I cooled it, I had about 2 gallons at an OG of 1.100! I added about one and a quarter gallons of water to get the OG down to the high 50's and pitched a few packets of dry ale yeast I had (one from the kit).
We will see what happens! Either it will be terrible, or great, or not. Either way, it should be interesting! Since I don't know what it is or will become, I was going to call it Uhhh... Ale, but my fiance suggested a spin on the IPA and calling it an IDK (I Dont Know) Ale!
