Alan's and Melissa's Best Cellar Pale Ale

Bodensatz Brewing

Best Cellar Pale Ale

Note that in this case we simply brewed nothing more than a 4lb kit. This gives a very nice, light, low-alcohol beer that makes an excellent quaffer, or a beer for the designated driver who still wants to have a couple of drinks and not have to worry about endangering anyone's lives.

Ingredients for 23 Litres

4lb Can of Best Cellar Pale Ale

Method

Empty the contents of the kit into 6 litres of hot water, bring to a boil and let boil vigourously for 5 minutes.

Remove pot from stove and immerse into sink full of cold water. Run fresh cold water into the sink, while siphoning water out into the other sink at the same rate (ad hoc wort chiller :-) ). Do this for 20 minutes.

Dump wort into a 23 litre carboy which already contains some cold water (temperature shock absorber), then fill the rest of the way up with cold water and stir well. Agitate well for 10 minutes to aerate.

Pitch rehydrated yeast that came with kit.

Data

brewed: Jan 21, 1996
pitched: Jan 21, 1996
bottled:
O.G. 1.023
F.G. 1.004

Pitching

Did the standard yeast rehydration in 350ml of boiled and cooled water.

Fermentation

Took off fairly quickly, and as of today (Jan 25) is still bubbling the airlock once every 4 or 5 seconds.

Taste Tests

Yield

500ml x 4
340ml x 24
650ml x 7
2 litre x 4