Started: 18 Oct 03
Bottled: 25 Oct 03
Ingredients
3 Kg Extra Pale Malt Extract
1 Kg Orange Blossom Honey (2 jars)
250 gms Crystal Malt
1.5 oz Halletauer Hops
1/2 Whirlfloc Tablet
11.5 gms packet Safale S-04 Ale Yeast
Method
Heat 3 litres of water to 65-70 deg Celsius add Crystal Malt
Let steep for 20 mins
At the same time, boil hops in 2 litres of water for 20 mins
and boil honey in saucepan to kill off any wild yeasts
Strain grains and hops into fermenter, sparge with cold water
Warm malt extract, add to fermenter
Add honey and Whirlfloc tablet
Top with warm/cold water to make 23 litres at about 22-30 deg C
Measure Specific Gravity
Pitch Yeast
Facts and Figures
OG :1.054
FG : 1.016
23 Litres
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Taste Test - This beer turned out to be relatively sweet tasting, but as the sugars should have been turned to alcohol, it was probably just the strong residual honey flavour and lack of extra bitterness from the small quantity of hops used that gave it that impression I would classify this among the fruit beer range as it has a distinctive, if not novel, flavour that would go with a less savoury range of food
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