Rat's Darkness

Classification: porter, extract

Source: Jack Green (lunatix!gparsons@s.ms.uky.edu) r.c.b. 2/24/92

Ingredients:

6.6 pounds, John Bull Dark Extract
1/2 pound, Crystal Malt
1/4 pound, Black Patent Malt
2 ounces Saaz hop pellets (boiling)
1/4 ounce, Cascade hop pellets (finishing)
1 pack, Whitenbread dry ale yeast

Procedure:

Cracked the grains and put them in 1.5 gallons of water, bring to boil and remover grains after 5 mins, add boiling hops and extract. Cook for 1 hour, add finishing hops for last 10 minutes. add to water in fermenter, bring level up to 5 gallons. ferments out in about 8 days, tasted good right out of the fermenter, ready to drink in about 8--10 days. Bottled with 1 cup Amber Dry Extract.

Specifics:

O.G.: 1.040
F.G.: 1.008