{"id":8,"date":"2006-07-25T17:47:49","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T07:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/?p=8"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:25:13","slug":"6-doggers-honey-maple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helms-deep.net\/~rwh\/blog\/beer\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"6. Dogger&#8217;s Honey Maple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to do this one, but after Cat&#8217;s party where everyone looooved it soooo much, it got moved up in the schedule. It doesn&#8217;t even use one of the million kits that I stocked up on when they were $8 at the supermarket. And hey, after the failure of my Raspberry Lemonade, I need something to get my confidence back.<br \/>\n<strong>Date of brewing:<\/strong> 25\/7\/06<br \/>\n<strong>Date of bottling:<\/strong> 11\/8\/06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Coopers Canadian Blonde kit<\/li>\n<li>1kg light dry malt extract (instead of the liquid pale asked for in the recipe)<\/li>\n<li>250g Crystal Malt<\/li>\n<li>500g Clover Honey (from the market; thanks Cat)<\/li>\n<li>250g Maple Syrup. Expensive stuff this at like $7.50<\/li>\n<li>20g Cascade, 20 mins<\/li>\n<li>28g Saaz, 1 min<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OK, I pretty much followed <a href=\"http:\/\/helms-deep.net\/%7Erwh\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/miniblog.php?action=archive&amp;limit=10&amp;offset=0&amp;category=recipe&amp;sortby=_date&amp;title=Recipes#honey_maple\">Dogger Dan&#8217;s recipe and method<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll expand on my own mistakes here. I only have a small pot so the boil size was much smaller. Added the LDME to 2 or 3 L of water, boiled while I put the Crystal into a coffee plunger. It&#8217;s a 1L coffee plunger and the 250g of Crystal fills it up 2\/3 of the way. Added boiled water to the the Crystal, mixed, plunged, and added the resulting amber liquid to the boil. Repeated 4 or 5 times. Added the honey. After an hour of the boil (after which time enough water had evaporated for me to fit more stuff in the pot), I added the Cascade, and boiled for 20 minutes while I watched Miss Universe which Frosty had on on the TV and drank a couple of bottles of homebrew with him (numbers 2 and 3&#8230; 2 is still crap while I&#8217;m liking 3 more and more). After 20 mins, added the Saaz and maple syrup, boiled for 1 more minute, then took off the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Tried to filter the wort into the fermenter through my square of cloth inside a sieve, but after 10 minutes of it slowly trickling through I removed the cloth and just used the sieve. It still caught most of the hops anyway. Added the cold water using my usual technique of pouring it out of a jug from a great height, through my sieve into the fermenter (to aerate it). Meanwhile in Miss Universe, the crowd favorite (and Frosty&#8217;s and my Favorite), Japan was beaten for the title of miss universe by&#8230; Paraguay I think it was. The names that we had made up for her earlier in the competition were: &#8220;Freakshow&#8221; &#8220;Skeletor&#8221; and &#8220;Mars Attacks&#8221;. Now we know that Miss Universe technically covers the whole universe, but come on, Japan was so cool and her samaurai national outfit was just soooo sexy. It&#8217;s just wrong. I&#8217;m sad that Frosty was right in that they only ever give the title to &#8220;White or Olive people&#8221;. It&#8217;s not even like she&#8217;d be a bad ambassador, being able to speak French and English as well as Japanese. Fuck you, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just got so caught up in the whole travesty of the affair. So I pitch the yeast fit the airlock (before putting the lid on so I don&#8217;t lose the grommet in the wort again), and get ready to put the fermenter onto the footwarmer&#8230; and I have one of those &#8220;oh shit&#8221; moments. If you&#8217;ve been paying attention here, you might be able to work out what I neglected to add to the brew&#8230; yup the kit. So hehe I add the kit&#8230; brings it up to a bit less than 24L, no biggie. Stir the hell out of it using my food grade paddle, and that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Numbers:<\/strong><br \/>\nSpecific gravity 25\/7: 1.049 @ 18\u00b0C<br \/>\nRacked on 30\/7. Specific gravity: 1.012 @ 18\u00b0C<br \/>\nBottled on 11\/8. Specific gravity: 1.007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to do this one, but after Cat&#8217;s party where everyone looooved it soooo much, it got moved up in the schedule. 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