Holy Matrimoniale, Batman!

Familiar recipe:

8 oz each for 1/2 hour steeping in a gallon of O-Town H2O at 160 degrees:

Munich malt
Caramunich malt
40L Crystal malt

Sparge grains with a gallon of 150 degree water.

Bring to a boil in brew kettle, add the sweets:

4.5 lbs british light extract
4.8 lbs light dried extract (a bit more!)
1 lb left over extract from who knows what
2 oz malto dextrin (4 oz short!)
2 1/2 oz centennial hops (a bit more)

Bring it up to 2.5 gallon marker, boil for 45 minutes.

Add flavor hops:

scant 1 oz East Kent Goldings (more!)
1/4 oz Cascade (more!)
1 tsp Irish Moss

Boil for 12 more minutes. Add:

1 1/2 oz Cascade (more!)
Wort chiller to sanitize

Turn off heat.

Chill the wort. Strain, add excess water, wait.

When temp hit 75 degrees, pitch 1056 American Ale

OSG: 1.057

Wedding Brew

A Wednesday afternoon brew day, Princess Kobeer and I await squirrel's arrival whilst our grains steep. We are trying to re-create the birthday brew of yestermonth for Mollex's wedding day. So far so good, only very minor modifications to the recipe. ...later, I just pitched the yeast at a quarter to eight. From start to finish, less than 4 hours, not too shabby, no sir! Now Squirrel and the Princess are cooking dinner while I fart around on the blogosphere. Hm, everything seemed to go pretty smoothly this time around. Maybe for the future, another strainer would come in handy. Also, make sure to check my quantities at home before going to the supply store. I didn't have enough Malto Dextrin (WTF does that do anyway?), nor did I know how much dried extract I had or what hops I had in the fridge. A simple 5 minute check would have helped. Nevertheless, with a bit of luck on the supply front and familiarity of recipe, this seems to be a success, barring any contamination. Good thing I'm not superstitious or I would be banging on my fake-wood desk right now.