Well it has been a little while since my last email but the holidays were a busy time around here.  In this update we will include some new recipes including a Trappist Ale, an English IPA and a Steam Bock and we have some news to go over as well.  I stuck in a new section on fishing because I figured people who drink beer also enjoy fishing.  Good Luck and see you at the shop!

 

Recipes first:

 

ENGLISH IPA

9 lbs. Pale Malt syrup

1/2 lb. Dark British Crystal

1/2 lb.. Dark Carastan

1/4 lb.. Gambrinus Honey Malt

2 oz. Cluster Boil 60 minutes

1 oz. Kent Golding last 5 minutes of boil

1 oz. Kent Golding at end of boil

White Labs Burton Ale Yeast

 

STEAM BOCK

11 lbs. Pale Malt Syrup

 

1 lb. 60L Crystal Malt

1/4 lb.. Special "B"

1/2 lb. 120L Crystal

1/2 lb.. Caramunich

 

2 oz. German Tradition boil 75 minutes

1 oz. Liberty last 5 minutes of boil

 

White Labs San Francisco Lager ferment at low 60's

 

Trappist Ale

 

10 lbs. Pale Malt Syrup

1lb. Amber Candi Sugar

 

3/4 lb. Dark British Crystal

1/2 lb. Special "B"

1/2 lb. Caravienne

 

2 oz. Fuggle boil 60 minutes

1 oz. Willamette last 5 minutes of boil

 

White Labs Trappist Ale Yeast

 

What's New?!

We have a few new books to talk about such as HOMEBREWING FOR DUMMIES which is a comprehensive book on brewing. It goes for $19.95 and is packed with up to date info on brewing.  We also have HOMEMADE ROOT BEER AND SODA POP which not only has info on brewing these delicious drinks but real recipes as well with actual ingredient breakdown instead of extract recipes.  Back in are HOMEBREWERS GOLD and PRINCIPLES OF BREWING SCIENCE. Principles reduced in price from $29.95 to an amazing $9.95!  We have the new classic styles books KOLSCH, BARLEY WINE and ALTBIER all $14.95.  We have a decent supply of 56 gal pin lock kegs at $19.95 as well as tons of ball lock kegs also at $19.95 including new o-ring all around.  The tall burners are in at the same price as the shorts so get out of the kitchen and brew outside! $79.95 We also have two of the tiered racks for 15 gal. brewing.

 

BREWERY INFO

 

We will soon be adding another 60 barrel fermentor to our brewery as well as a small bottling machine which will allow us to start distributing our beers to supermarkets and non-draft accounts.  Look for it in your local markets soon!  We broke 100 draft accounts and with our new bottles we hope to double this number rapidly.  Look for our new Copper Ale t-shirts to be available soon! These are to be done by the same artist who did our yellowtail shirts so we expect them to be fantastic. We should also be receiving our embroidered Yellowtail Ale baseball caps very soon.

 

CLASS INFO

 

Kind of short notice but we have a begginer/intermediate class tonight 1-12-99 from 6:00-7:30 pm right here at Home Brew Mart.  The class is free and covers brewing with malt syrups and steeping grains, adding hops and bottling.  We will have another class coming up in late January and I will give better notice for this one.

 

FISHING REPORT  (new section)

I figure that some of you enjoy fishing as well as beer.  Nice stocker trout coming out of the local lakes with my two favorites being Lake Wohlford and Lake Dixon.  If you like seeing the fish, Dixon offers crystal clear water with fish responding well to crappie jigs and lures such as kastmasters and my favorite, the super duper 502.  Wohlford offers up muddy water trout action with trout coming on bait and lures.  It also gave up a whopper bass at over 11 pounds last week. Lake Skinner is starting to produce large striper on the trout plants with almost all coming on trout imitation lures like the castaic soft trout.  Largemouth action should start soon with the pre-spawn movement so watch the weather and start flippin'.  Ocean action seems slow with rock cod and sculpin being the main fare.  Can't wait for the albacore and the bluefin.  Surfperch also showing on the beach if you like throwing light weight tackle and paying the big bucks for bloodworms.