anchor steam beer clone brew day
as I mentioned yesterday, for a variety of reasons I decided to brew an anchor steam beer clone.
- after confirming a predicted temperature of less than 60F for the week, I decided that saturday would be a good day to get the ball rolling.
- I slightly modified this clone recipe from BYO as follows:
- 8 lbs. pale LME
- 8 oz. crystal malt, 40° Lovibond (steep from 150-175F, then remove)
- 2 oz. Northern Brewer hops (7.2% alpha acid): 1.5 oz. for 60 min., 0.5 oz. for 15 min.
- 1 oz. Cascade hops (5.5% alpha acid) for 2 min.
- Wyeast 2112 (DOA)/saflager S-23 dry lager yeast combo in starter
- after weighing out the specialty grain…
- I steeped them according to the above recipe.
- I added the LME at 175F and brought the wort to a boil, where I added the hops according to schedule.
- after cooling the wort to the low 70sF…
- I aerated for a minute with O2 and added my yeast starter.
- primary fermentation seems to be going strong in my shed – the ambient temperatue seems to be nice and cool, so I have high hopes that the wort hasn’t topped the mid-60sF.
- after about 10 days in primary, I plan on lagering in my kegerator for a couple months. cross your fingers!
Tags: anchor steam beer clone, BYO
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