Making Homemade Wine and Beer

During the past week, I have been working on a bottling experiment. For the experiment, I designed a simple American Amber Ale recipe using dry malt extract and speciality grains.

 Makes 3 gallons

Ingredients:

• 5 ounces Crystal Malt 40
• 4 ounces Cara-Pils Malt
• 1 ounce Chocolate Malt
• 3.5 pounds Light Dry Malt Extract
• 1 ounce Galena hops
• 1 packet dry yeast
• Irish Moss

Procedure:

Crush grains and steep for 1 hour. Strain and pour into brew pot. Add the dry malt extract and bring the wort to a boil. Add 1/2 ounce of Galena hops. Boil for 60 minutes and at the 40 minute mark add Irish moss. Add 1/2 ounce Galena hops to your primary fermenter. Chill wort and pour into fermenter. Pitch yeast and allow to ferment for 3 to 7 days. Bottle and enjoy.