Recipe - Spruce Beer

6 5/8 pound Munton & Fison dark malt
Extract
3 pound Dry dark extract
3 ounce Cascade hops (4.3 alpha)
3 teaspoon Gypsum
1 ounce Cascade hops
One half teaspoon Irish moss
One half ounce Spruce essence
Leigh & Williams Beer &
Stout yeast

Boil malt and boiling hops for 1 hour. In last 10 minutes add the 1
ounce of Cascade finishing hops and the Irish moss. In the last 2
minutes add the spruce essence. Chill and pitch yeast. My tasting notes on
this say that at 2One half months after bottling it was "fair." This tells me
that it was unremarkable. My recollection is that it was drinkable but
unexciting. Perhaps the dark extract overwhelmed the spruce and more
spruce essence should have been used. Where the bottle says "Sufficient
for 8 gallons of spruce beer" they may mean for a somewhat lighter beer.
Original Gravity: 1.040 Final Gravity: 1.018

Recipe By : Louis Clark

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