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Quick summertime beer?
I'm looking for a beer that I can brew this weekend or next that will be a light refreshing summer beer, but also one that can be ready to drink by July 4th weekend. Lagers are out for now, because I don't have anywhere cold enough for the fermentation process. I'd like to bottle it, but I have a keg setup so I could make due with that.
I recently tried a Blueberry Wheat. However I created my own recipie and I think between the 7 lbs of Wheat malt, the Dried Wheat Extract, the Wheat Malt Weyermann 2 row steeping, and the Malto Dextrin, I think I ended up with a Bluberry Wheat Stout instead of the light summer beer I had planned on. Chock it up to experimentation and inexperience, but I think I may be aging this until summer is over. OG came in at a stagering 1.068. I made it Saturday and its still perculating away rather quickly, so maybe I will just have a whopper of a stong beer. I'm planning to rack it over the 2 lbs of blueberries this weekend if the primary slows down, and start another batch.
My only other beer was a kit - a Classic British Pale Ale, that was down to final gravity already by this stage of the process. I left in primary for 5 days and then racked it to secondary for another 2 weeks to condition. It's in the keg now, and I hope my regulator will finally be in tomorrow so I can force carbonate it and get a good taste of it.
So for now I'm looking for an easy drinking, clean, crisp, fresh beer, that can be ready in about a month. Any one have a suggestion?
I'd like to try my hand at a light colored clear beer.
Millikin's Blue Shirt Ale
0.50 lbs. Maple Syrup
6.00 lbs. Muntons LME - Light
1.75 lbs. Caramel Pils Malt
0.25 lbs. Crystal 60L
1.00 oz. Perle* 60 min.
0.50 oz. Chinook* 30 min.
1.00 oz. Cascade* 0 min.
0.50 oz. Chinook* Dry Hop
*pellets
Batch Size (Gal): 5.00 Wort Size (Gal): 5.00
Anticipated OG: 1.058 Plato: 14.20
Anticipated SRM: 8.7
Anticipated IBU: 60.7
Here's a good one. Crisp, refreshing, nice hop aroma and bite. Perfect for a hot summer day.
Got a substitue for the maple syrup? Not a big fan of maple flavor. Other than that, it looks good.
You could use brown sugar. 1 packed down cup or so.
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