One More Summer Brew

As the clock counts down on what has been a productive beer summer the PintHeads got together for one more brew. This time we decided to do a Belgian-Brown style beer (6lb light malt extract, 1lb 60L crystal malt, 2oz Fuggle hops for the boil, 1oz Willamette hops for the finish and 1 packet of Nottingham yeast). The last couple of times that I've made beer I boiled only 1 1/2 to 2 gallons of water and added that straight to 3-3 1/2 gallons of water, but that was yielding less than a full five gallons. This time we went back to boiling 3 1/2 gallons, chilling the wort and then adding cold water up to the full five gallons. I'm confident we'll get a full yield this time. All went off without a hitch and for the record our OG is 1.044. This beer should be ready sometime during the second week of the fall quarter just in time for mid-term prep.

Cheers,

Alex