Spouse's Alt

Source: Victor Early
Recipe added: 04/21/97
Email: EGSI@gate.net

After many year of brewing, this recipe was developed after my wife suggested that my beer was too high in alcohol. It has lots of flavor and a good spicy aroma, and is kind of "light".

Specifics

Recipe type: All Grain
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Starting Gravity: 1.040
Finishing Gravity: 1.009
Time in Boil: 60 minutes
Primary Fermentation: 4 days @ 65F
Secondary Fermentation: 2 weeks @ 50F

Ingredients:

7 # 2 row pale
1/2 # caramel (90 lv)
2 oz chocolate
1 oz tettnang (boil)
1/2 oz saaz (15min)
1/2 oz saaz (aroma)
wyeast 1056 (chico)

Procedure:

mash @ 156F, sparge, add hops as indicated, chill, pitch yeast (optional from starter solution), ferment in glass carboy.

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