Honey Orange Amber Ale
So, this afternoon, I used the beer kit I received as a Christmas gift from my parents. Here are the original kit ingredients:
- 3 pounds Muntons Pale Extract (hopped)
- 2 pounds Muntons Amber Extract
- 1 pound mixed Munich and Wheat Malt
- 1 tsp Irish Moss (boiled 15 mins)
- 1 oz Willamette hops (half for 60mins, half for 10 mins)
- Safale S04 yeast
I added the following ingredients:
- 2 oz bitter orange peel (at 5mins)
- 1 lb honey (partly wildflower, partly mesquite, added at 2nd boil)
- 0.5 lb light candi sugar (at 2nd boil)
- 0.5 lb malto-dextrin (at 2nd boil)
I switched the yeast to Safbrew T-58, which I made into a starter on a stir plate. I’m not sure if that is going to make a difference since I only stirred it for an hour.
OG is 1.065, up from the 1.040 on the kit instructions. Spent grains are currently being baked into a this spent grain bread, and I’ll hopefully also make this one and this one later on today!
crossposted from The Hydrogen Project