Scottish Ale

	72^oF	Adj	Orig	Alcohol
SPGR	1.010	1.011
Potential A/V		1.5%	4.5%	3%

Ingredients

· 7.5 lbs. of Pale Dark Malt Extract

· ¾ lb. Munich Malt

· ½ lb. Crystal 10 Malt

· ¾ lb. Crystal 55 Malt

· ¼ lb. Caramunich Malt

· 2 oz. Roasted Barley

· 1 oz. Peat Malt

· ½ lb. Flaked Barley

· 1 oz. Golding Hops (Bettering)

· 1 oz. Fuggle Hops (Flavoring)

· Wyeast Scottish Ale Yeast # 1728

Brewers Log

Beer Date 07082007: <Day 1>

Kicked off my inaugural batch of beer today with the help some good friends. Since we all like Four Peak’s Scottish Ale “Kilt Lifter”, I got a similar receipt and that is what we are making.

11:00	Start Time
11:30	Added socks of grain at 155^oF (looked like a big pot of tea)
12:00	Turned up heat to bring to a boil
12:20	Added malt extract
12:45	Reached the ‘hot break’ and added bettering hops
13:25	Added flavoring hops
13:45	Done cooking and starting to cool
14:30	Cooled to 77^oF, OG 1.035, Added pitched the yeast and shook carboy
14:45	Capped with a tube to a bucked of water for the initial overflow
15:00	Finished cleaning the kitchen
18:00	Called Dan in a panic and found out that sometimes it takes a day or two for the activity really start.
23:00	First fermentation activity observed, a small layer of foam

	77^oF	Adj
SPGR	1.035	1.037
Potential A/V		4.5%
Balling

Will be added to this entry shortly. I spent too much time today playing with my new iPhone and not enough time logging my steps. Fortunately I have a good memory and I basically followed the written instructions from my book and from the home brew supply shop.

Special thanks to Dan, Robb, Jim and Dave for helping out.

Beer Date 07092007: <Day 2>

Wow, it is sure active now. I got up this morning to a wonderful sight, I sat there and watched bubbles of foam flowing through the tube. When we made a batch of beer 6 years ago it was in Dan C’s apartment and I never saw any of this activity. I only help with the boiling and the bottling. It looks about like what I expected but a sight for sore eyes since I was starting to panic yesterday when I saw no activity after 3-4 hours.

Beer Date 07102007: <Day 3>

Bubbling slowed down significantly later in the day. When I came home from work I could no longer sit for a couple minutes and watch foam flow through the tube. It is probably at the point where I can put the air lock on, however I will give it another day.

Beer Date 07112007: <Day 4>

No activity visible today. Removed the blow-off setup and put on the air lock.

Beer Date 07182007: <Day 10>

Temp 68^oF, FG 1.010

Beer Date 07202007: <Day 12>

Temp 68^oF, FG 1.010

Beer Date 07222007: <Day 14>

Have been checking the specific gravity for a few days now and it hasn’t changed, ready to bottle.

	72^oF	Adj	Orig	Alcohol
SPGR	1.010	1.011
Potential A/V		1.5%	4.5%	3%
Balling

Learned an important lesson while boiling the sugar used to add carbonation. NEVER LOOK AWAY from the pot. Dave was bringing the pot to a boil and turned to respond to whatever ridiculous comment I had said, and in that split second the foamed up and boiled over. We lost a little bit of the sugars, and will therefore probably lose a bit of carbonation L

Lost a couple bottles of beer when the capping process cracked the glass bottle, it is a good thing we didn’t decide to salvage that beer and re-bottle it because there was broken glass down in the bottle.

Also lost some beer to a couple of over pours and a leaky nozzle in the bottling bucket.

We probably lost 4 bottles of beer due to accidents on bottling day, and I don’t even know how much we lost due to the blow off, or my frequent checking the specific gravity. When it was all said and done, we got 38 bottles out of the batch.