more bitter than Extra Special Bitter
India Pale Ale, that is. And by “more bitter” we mean an especially aggressive presence of hops. I paid a visit to Strange Brew armed with a recipe and the plan of a few hours on Father’s Day weekend. The recipe originally called for all-grain, but I panicked at the thought of my beleaguered mash tun and reverted to extract. As it turns out, I had to make several substitutions, therefore I'm going to call the finished product Bitter Old Man IPA.
Here are the ingredients:
6 pints Munton's IPA Bitter extract
1/2 pound Dark Crystal malt
3 oz Chinook Hops
2 oz East Kent Golding Hops
2 oz Fuggles Hops
1 teaspoon Irish Moss
Wyeast 1005 German Ale Yeast
I'll let you know how it tastes in about six weeks.
India Pale Ale, that is. And by “more bitter” we mean an especially aggressive presence of hops. I paid a visit to Strange Brew armed with a recipe and the plan of a few hours on Father’s Day weekend. The recipe originally called for all-grain, but I panicked at the thought of my beleaguered mash tun and reverted to extract. As it turns out, I had to make several substitutions, therefore I'm going to call the finished product Bitter Old Man IPA.
Here are the ingredients:
6 pints Munton's IPA Bitter extract
1/2 pound Dark Crystal malt
3 oz Chinook Hops
2 oz East Kent Golding Hops
2 oz Fuggles Hops
1 teaspoon Irish Moss
Wyeast 1005 German Ale Yeast
I'll let you know how it tastes in about six weeks.
Here are the ingredients:
6 pints Munton's IPA Bitter extract
1/2 pound Dark Crystal malt
3 oz Chinook Hops
2 oz East Kent Golding Hops
2 oz Fuggles Hops
1 teaspoon Irish Moss
Wyeast 1005 German Ale Yeast
I'll let you know how it tastes in about six weeks.
posted by extraspecialbitter at 7:42 PM
6 Comments:
I like the word fuggles.
Boston's Orange Line features a Ruggles Station. Having never been there, I can't speak to its relative bitterness.
Better than letting me know how it tastes, how about sending me a bottle...?
(I'm mostly joking. I think.)
P.S. I comment so rarely on blogs that I'm not sure if I might be imaging things. But, have the verification words been getting longer? Methinks they have.
Longer verification means there are more of us ... ?
Hey, Special, do we drink it warm or cold? I've heard Home Brew, cold, is blasphemy ... knew a guy in Alaska ... trying to keep it from the cold. We worked out in the middle of no where, uhmmm ... I mean the Great Wilderness ...
He, Fish & Game. Me, serving the bar. The owner used a Sharpie on the bottles behind the bar.
That was some fine-ass beer.
All that AND he makes his own beer.
all i remember about the orange line is that it was the line with a chinatown stop. this is becasue some guy on the T asked me where he could buy a wok...
mmm...chinook hops.
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