Excellent Scotch Ale

After nearly dying out in Scotland, Scotch Ale is making a huge comeback in the US. I made an excellent one on my first try, it has a sweet caramel flavor with a touch of smoke, highly refreshing. It's an excellent fall beer.





Grains/Extracts

• 6oz Peet Malt


• 6oz Crystal Malt, 60L


• 4oz Chocolate Malt


• 4oz Roast Malt


• 7lbs Extra Lite Liquid Extract

Hops

• 2oz Fuggle 4.4% AA

Yeast

• Wyeast IPA

Directions

• Put 2 gallons of water in a pot on high heat


• Put the grains in a bag and steep in the water until just before boiling (you want it to be about 30 minutes), then remove the grains


• Once the water is boiling add the liquid extract and all the hops


• Boil for an hour (Add Irish Moss 10 minutes before the end for clarity)


• Cool rapidly, transfer to a fermenter, fill to 5 gallons and pitch yeast.


• Let sit for 7 days in the primary fermenter, then rack it to a secondary for 2 weeks.

Gravities

• Original 1.060


• Final 1.010

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Finding myself motivated again

After winding down much of the chaos in my life, I've found that my motivation for hobbies has increased tremendously.

I've got 2 beers in secondary aging (one is a completely crazy Oktoberfest that I should have a review and recipe for next month), and I'm working on the site again.

I was using Nucleus CMS, but it wasn't working out and I've switched to Wordpress, which is much easier to use.  The only downside is that I've lost all my old comments and links, but on the plus side their anti-spam utils mean I can re-enable comments.

Overall things should get busy here, and I've got a half dozen recipes to post.