Recipe – Ginger Beer-Beer

This beer was brewed as part of an internal Escarpment Labs homebrew competition. Staff teamed up to brew something festive and delicious, and the beers were blindly judged by a selected panel of staff. This American Brown ended up malty and gingery!

Recipe Details

Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV
19 L 60 min 20 IBUs 17 1.052 1.014 5.1 %

Fermentables

Name Amount %
Munich I 1.52 kg 33.9
Pale Ale Malt 2-Row 1.52 kg 33.9
Wheat Flaked 912 g 20.34
Carapils 304 g 6.78
Carafa Special I 228 g 5.08

Hops

Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha %
East Kent Goldings (EKG) 15 g 60 min Boil Pellet 5
Galena 8 g 30 min Boil Pellet 14.2

Miscs

Name Amount Time Use Type
Whirlfloc 1.00 Items 15 min Boil Fining
Yeast Lightning 1.00 g 15 min Boil Other
Ginger Root 500.00 g 5 days Secondary Herb

Yeast

Name Lab Attenuation Temperature
English Ale I Escarpment Labs 67% 18°C - 22°C

Mash

Step Temperature Time
Mash In 65°C 75 min

Fermentation

Step Time Temperature
Primary 14 days 23°C
Secondary 5 days 4°C
Aging 7 days 4°C

Notes

Water profile: Guelph (Ca 120, Mg 30, Na 68, Cl 127, SO4 130)

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