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CATSKILL YELLOW CAT SPRINGWATER
"VERNAL EQUINOX" COPENHAGEN-STYLE ALE
By Robin Garr
This is the best beer I've made yet! Although I don't attribute its
success so much to my skill as to the combination of good ingredients
(quality extract and liquid yeast) and good equipment (8-gallon brewpot and
wort chiller), I'm still proud of it.
It wouldn't do in a contest, because it's a recipe of my own invention
rather than an effort to emulate a particular style, but it's sure a tasty
Northern European-type brown ale, a "gourmet quality" beer that wouldn't be
out of place on the fanciest dinner table.
INGREDIENTS
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1 can (4 pounds) Doric Danmark Lager Extract (hopped).
1 1/2 pounds Edme Light Dry Malt Extract (DME)
2 cups Crystal Malt (whole, uncrushed)
1 ounce Northern Brewer Hops Pellets
1/4 teaspoon Irish Moss
1/2 ounce Hallertauer Hops Pellets
1/2 ounce Tettnanger Hops Pellets
1 packet WYeast European Ale Yeast (Strain No. 1338)
PROCEDURE
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1. Dissolve DME in five gallons cold water in large brewpot.
2. Place crystal malt (in grain bag) in the cold water/extract mix and
steep while heating until temperature reaches 170 degrees. Discard grains.
3. Bring to full boil and stir in Doric Danmark Lager extract, using hot water from the pot to get the last bit out of the can.
4. Add Northern Brewer hops pellets.
5. Maintain at rolling boil, stirring frequently, for a full 60 minutes,
adding water periodically to maintain level at 5 gallons.
6. Add Irish Moss for last 20 minutes of the boil.
7. Add Hallertauer and Tettnanger hops at the end of boil, immediately
AFTER turning off the heat.
8. Cool rapidly, using wort chiller.
9. Pitch yeast at 70 degrees or below.
OG was 1.042 at 70 degrees. I got good krauesen within 48 hours, and
continued fermenting in primary at ambient air temperature (around 65 to 70)
for nine days (I would have racked to secondary sooner, but I was out of town)
and in secondary for an additional five days, a total of two weeks
fermentation to FG 1.010 at 69 degrees.
Primed with 2/3 corn sugar boiled for five minutes in 1 cup water, and
bottled in a combination of 12-ounce longnecks and 16-ounce and 22-ounce
Grolsch-type brown bottles.
The beer was surprisingly well conditioned by April 13, within six days
after bottling and two days less than three weeks after brewing! It is
already brilliantly clear, no sign of chill haze in a dark, coppery-amber
brew with a rich, foamy head that leaves good "lace;" very attractive hops
nose and a full-bodied, malty flavor with a nice (not estery) touch of fruit
and a good balance of hops bitterness and malty sweetness. A FINE brew!
If you try this recipe or a variation based on it, please let me know
how your efforts worked out.