American Steam

With the arrival of spring, I brewed an American Steam for the first time. Should be interesting to see how this one comes out.

Ingredients

brewed: 2/11/05

specific gravities:

Bottled: 1/5/05 2 5L keg, 11 22 oz bottles

Expected % of alc by vol.: 5.1%

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and spread the victory malt on a cookie sheet. Within 10 minutes a wonderful aroma will emanate from your oven and the malted barley will have turned a slight reddish color. Remove the grain at this time. Add the toasted malted barley and crystal malts to 1 1/2 gallons of water and bring to a boil, then immediately remove the grains. Add the malt extract, gypsum and boiling hops and boil. After 45 minutes of vigorous boiling, add the Irish moss and continue to boil for 15 more minutes. Add the aroma hops and corn sugar during the final 2 minutes. Sparge the hot wort into the fermenter and add cold water to make 5 gallons total. Add yeast and ferment to completion. Bottle when ready.