Spray Centennial Commemorative Ale - Brown Ale - No. 7

Classification: brown ale, extract

Source: Daniel Land (dland@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us), r.c.b., 5/10/95

This one started fermenting on April 24th, 1995; 100 years to the day from when Joshua Slocum sailed the Spray out of Boston harbor, to start the first single-handed circumnavigation of the world.

Ingredients:

9.0 lb Light Malt Extract Syrup, Alexanders
1.0 oz Eroica 12.6 % Leaf, Bittering, 60 min
1.0 oz Fuggles 4.0 % Leaf, Finish, 15 min
1.5 lb Crystal Malt, 20L
0.5 lb Chocolate Malt
0.25 lb Cara-Pils Malt
0.5 lb Flaked Barley
1.5 qt Wyeast 1065 American Ale Yeast, repitched #6
2.0 tsp Burton Water Salts
1.0 cup Priming Dextrose
Alderwood Artesian Water, preboiled

Procedure:

Steeped Grains and Flushed with Brewing Water Boiled the Wort for 60 Minutes Added Finish Hops for the Last 15 Minutes of the Boil Cooled In Washbasin of Iced Water, 90 min Strained Wort into Primary, Pitched @60F

6.0 gallons wort in 6.8 gallon carboy with blowoff OG 1.052 FG 1.011 Fermented 6 days Racked to secondary carboy for another 8 days Racked again just before bottling Yield - 18 750 ml bottles, 17 500 ml bottles

This one started fermenting on April 24th, 1995; 100 years to the day from when Joshua Slocum sailed the Spray out of Boston harbor, to start the first single-handed circumnavigation of the world.

Specifics:

O.G.: 1.052
F.G.: 1.011