Who is a Home Brewer

[Irish]

Just placed an order for my Christmas present this year - a nice home brew setup and a couple of recipe kits. I'm stoked to try my hand in home brewing, I've been meaning to get a setup for a few years now. I think I'm going to start with an Irish Red Ale.

 

[BitterRat]

Here's a recipe to help build some yeast.
Use whatever ale yeast you are trying to build up.

Recipe Specifics
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Recipe Name: Catamount Porter clone
Brewed On: N/A


Batch Size (Gal): 6.00
Est. IBU: 31.8
Est. OG: 1.044 Plato: 11.07


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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76.6 8.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) Great Britain 1.038 3
6.6 0.69 lbs. Black Patent Malt Great Britain 1.027 525
7.2 0.75 lbs. Chocolate Malt Great Britain 1.034 475
9.6 1.00 lbs. Crystal 90L America 1.033 90

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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0.55 oz. Galena Whole 13.00 23.9 60 min.
0.69 oz. Cascade Whole 7.00 7.9 15 min.


Yeast
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Mash Schedule
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Mash Type: Single Step

Grain Lbs: 10.44
Water Qts: 10.00 - Before Additional Infusions
Water Gal: 2.50 - Before Additional Infusions

Qts Water Per Lbs Grain: 0.96 - Before Additional Infusions

Saccharification Rest Temp : 152 Time: 90
Mash-out Rest Temp : 0 Time: 0
Sparge Temp : 168 Time: 59

All temperature measurements are degrees Fahrenheit.