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Nanook Ale

1st attempt at cloning Alaskan Amber (Specs: Original Gravity: 1.054, ABW 4.0%, ABV 5.0%, Bitterness: 18 IBU, Color 22 SRM). Due to some restrictions (out of some ingredients) at the local home brew store I had to adjust the extract amounts.

8/31/06

Yeast:
German/Koelsh White Labs WLP 028

Grain Bill for color/flavor:
0.12 lbs American Chocolate
0.5 lbs Carapils
2 lbs 2 row Pils
1 lb Crystal 60
1 lb Crystal 120

Extracts (fermentables):
2lbs Amber
1lb Dark
5lbs Light

Hops:
1oz Cascade AA 5.6 at 20 minutes
1oz Cascade AA 5.6 at 1 minute
1oz Czech Saaz AA 3.3 at 20 minutes
1oz Czech Saaz AA 3.3 at 1 minute


Bring filtered water to 160F and steep grains for 30 minutes. Sparge grains with 2 gallons wort. Turn off heat and add extracts and stir to dissolve. Bring to boil and boil uncovered for 30 minutes. Add hops at 20 minutes and at 1 minute. Turn off heat and rack into fermenting bucket while filtering the hops. Lower wort temp to 80F then pitch yeast.

OG 1.060

Placed bucket in a water bath with ice to keep fermentation temp between 60 and 70F

According to Tastybrew.com the target stats should be:
OG 1.056
FG 1.014
IBU 17
ABV 5.4
SRM 23

9/1/06
Active fermentation with 1-2 blips a second

9/9/06
Fermentation has slowed to a blip every 15 seconds with wonderful smells from the airlock. Should bottle next weekend…
 
9/16/06
FG 1.026 5%ABV

Primed with 1 cup honey dissolved in 1 cup water and boiled.

Bottled 58 12oz bottles.

Color is a bit darker than the Alaskan amber, but I will have to verify once carbonation has finished in a couple weeks. Slight malt flavor with the hop bitterness lingering for sometime. I have to admit that I like it.

So to improve on this recipe for next time I will have to change the yeast because I missed the FG. The yeast I used WL German/Koelsh has about 60% attenuation so based on an OG of about 1.062 the yeast did their job. I will also plan to use pale dry extract and use the grains for color and flavor as well.

Any other suggestions would be helpful.
 
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