April Recipe of the month: Economic Stimulus Beer

1st place Bluebonnet Brew-Off 2009

By Adam English

Style: English Strong Bitter

Ingredients

Grain: 8 oz crystal 40
1 lb pale malt
8 oz. marris otter
Extract: 8 lbs light DME

Hops: 2 oz Willamette,
2 oz. New Zealand Golding

Yeast: London ESB (Wyeast 1968)

Procedure

Pre-Brew: yeast cultured 24hours before brewing using 2 cups water, ½ cup light DME

5 gallons of Primo water heated to 155F in two separate pots on electric stove (12 quart & 16 quart)

Grains steep in 12 quart pot for 30 minutes

Both pots brough to a boil, 6 lbs light DME added to 16 quart pot, 2 added to 12 quart pot

Hop Sequence: 1 oz Golding 1.5 hours, 2 0z Willamette 1 hour, 1 oz Golding ½ hour

Grain bag filled with: ~8 oz oak chips (bbg chips from HEB), bag transferred from pot to pot during entire boil to impart oak flavor

Wort cooled in ice bath and racked, a lot of water had boiled off, 1.5 gal purified water added to ~5 gal. wort, yeast pitched.