The past couple times I've picked up batches from the homebrew shop, the price has been more than I expected. Hop prices have gone up, as well as grain. Since I started brewing partial extract, I decided maybe it's time I brew up an all extract session beer. I'm going for a light pale ale. These two cans of extract cost me a total of $24 bucks. The yeast is a dry one. I'm not expecting much, but, who knows, maybe I'll be surprised.
This is going to be my lawn mower beer, my "PBR".. I was talking with some friends about it, and they said I ought to call it DRB PBR, I changed it up a bit to "pale blue ribbon." I'm almost thinking of trying this again, yet with some hops, but we'll see. Maybe this'll be a one time experiment, and i'll go back to partial..or, if all goes well, my George Bush tax refund All Grain set up :) I'll post back later on how this turns out.
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Boiled 5 gallons of water. Once boiling, removed kettle from heat and added both cans of extract. Stirred. Returned to heat. Monitored closely.. the first 10 mins was nothing but near boil overs (since I boiled with the whole 5 gals.).
The rest went well. Hit the wort chiller at about 45 mins into it, let it sit for about 5 minutes until the boil returned. Cooled it to about 68 degrees. Filled the carboy and pitched the yeast. Took a bit off the carboy before pitching the yeast and took the gravity. 1.048 Original Gravity.
We'll see how this goes!
Original Gravity @ 60 degrees = 1.050.. I checked it again, after realizing the temp should be at 60 when taking the gravity reading.. this time, at 60, it's 1.050. I seem to forget this each time.
Fermentation kicked in pretty quickly on this beer, and didn't last long. Today the beer was done, and I'm racking it to a secondary - which might not even be necessary, but I don't have an open keg just yet, so I'll let it sit in the cool garage for another week. Final gravity was 1.020 for a ABV of 3.87%
I was hoping for around a 5%, but this'll do. After all, it's my summertime swill beer!
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