The recipe is called Serious Black Ale, and it peaked my interest because of it's cross between my two favorite beers - hoppy IPAs and dark porters. This brew appears to have ample amounts of cascade hops, which incidentally is the same variety that we have left over from our HopsDirect.com purchase.
Description pulled from the recipe posting:
"This beer is a very dark Hybrid Ale/Porter, overtly hop forward and lasting until finish. However it has an nice toasty and chocolate flavor on the palate. Wonderful hop and coffee aromas as soon as the beer is opened and poured. As I said this beer is very dark. It is Brown almost black and has a head almost like Guiness. "
We'll see... I certainly hope so.
I'm hoping if the post-secondary taste test goes well, I may take on the effort of filling my second tank with a CO2 and Nitrogen mix, to get the true Guiness-style head.
Finally, the recipe:
- 7.5lbs Amber liquid malt extract.
- 2lbs Muntons dark dry malt extract.
- 12.5 ounces Chocolate malt cracked
- 12.5 ounces Crystal malt 60l cracked
- 7 ounces Victory malt cracked
- 2 ounces northern brewers hops
- 5 ounces cascade hops
- 5 gallons Spring water
- 2tsp yeast nutrient
- 2.5tsp yeast energizer
- 1 vial of White Labs California Ale V yeast WLP-051
Primary Ferment: 5 days
Secondary Ferment: 10 days
It sure sounds delicious; hope the trend continues with positive results. Were you thinking we should try out the yeast energizer?
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