This Brewery is at Full Capacity!

Towel around brew pot (hillbilly mash tun)

Yesterday I brewed up a Summer Ale. I was down to my final empty carboy, a five gallon glass beauty. And now Sanctification Brewery is going at full capacity. This beer is technically my first all grain recipe. I opted out of buying my normal 3 lb bag of Dried Malt Extract because I just did not want to spend the extra 15 dollars. Plus, I figure that this is only 5 gallons, compared to my normal 7, and the O.G. would be decent. It ended up at 1.043. Not bad for 17 dollars of ingredients! Maybe this will turn out to be an approximately 4.5 percent ABV beer?

Ice bath (hillbilly wort chiller!)

I used 8 lbs 2 Row, 1 lb Honey Malt, 1/2 lb Cara-Pils and 1/2 lb 60 degree Crystal Malt. Here we have ten pounds of grains, this is the most my pots can handle. I also used some new hops: Citra hops. They are supposed to be a bit fruity with a bit of citrus. These babies are at 11.1 % Alpha! I used 1/2 oz boiling and 1/2 oz aroma (final 2 minutes). I went with Danstar Windsor yeast. We will see how fruity and citrusy this one is!

I would like to do this recipe again but with 2 to 3 pounds of honey!
Above is just prior to adding the yeast.

Above is just after adding the yeast.

Summer Ale in front, left is IPA, right is Pale Ale and the back is a Nut Brown. I have no more empty carboys, except my 3 gallon, which is my unofficial Ice Wine Carboy! These beers will all be ready for the Phish show on June 11!