Sunny Summer Ale Recipe

Another Recipe for all to enjoy!

This is a nice simple recipe to play with. Tweak it the way you want. I like it simply the way it is. Nice, light, and great after cutting the lawn.

My recipes are pretty much the same in layout. No really difficult or complicated.

"Sunny Summer Ale"
What you'll need:

5 gal. Filtered Water
7lbs. Filtered Ice
1tsp. Ground Cinnamon
2oz. Lemon Zest
4oz. Raw Honey
1oz. Seeds of Paradise Crushed
2lbs. Extra Light Liquid Malt
4lbs. Wheat Liquid Malt
1/8lb. Cara-Pils Crushed
1/4lb. Rye Crushed
3/4lb. Aromatic (Barley)Crushed
1/8lb. Wheat Crushed
1oz. Horizon Hops or Cascade Hops
1oz. Fuggle Hops
1oz. Liberty hops or Mt. Hood
1 Tube of California Ale Yeast
or
1 package of Ale Yeast

Making the Wort or Beer Soup.

First pour 3 gallons of water into a 5 gallon pot. Bring the water temperature up to 135 degrees Fahrenheit and turn of the stove.

Then place your grains in a steeping bag or sock and place it into the pot. Let it sit for a half hour.
Then remove the bag from the pot, letting most of the liquid drain and discard. Do not squeeze the bag. Bring the pot back up to a boil. When you have a nice rolling boil drop in 1oz. of the Horizon Hops or Cascade Hops. Let it boil for another half hour.

Then add 1oz. of Fuggle Hops, 2lbs of Extra light Liquid Malt and 6lbs. or Wheat Liquid Malt, 1 tsp. of ground Cinnamon, 2oz. of Lemon Zest, and Crushed Seeds of Paradise. Let boil for 25 minutes. Stay close to adjust the heat so you don't get a boil over.

Then add the Liberty hops or Mt. Hood and let boil for 5 more minutes. Then turn off the stove. Let this sit for about 20 minutes with a lid on it.

Place ice into your 5&1/2 or 6 gallon fermenting bucket. Now place a strainer on top of the bucket and strain the pot into the bucket. Be careful the wort is still hot. Discard the left over stuff in the strainer, (I put it in the compost heap). Then add the rest of the water to the bucket, making sure it gets to the fill line on the side of the bucket.

Take the temperature of the wort. If it is around 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit add the yeast. If it is not let it sit, covered, until it does. Then seal the bucket with the air lock and store in a cool, clean place, for about a week.

Transfer it to a glass carboy with an air lock, for about another week.

Then transfer to a bottling bucket and mix in the 4oz. of Raw Honey.

Bottle the beer and cap it. Let it sit in a cool place for another week and then refrigerate or not and enjoy.

Until next time, Happy Brewing!