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The Spitfire as a premium Ale is a superb beer. Here is my clone of the famous premium ale. It also fits nicely along side, my other beers, the Lancastor bomber, the mosquito bomber and the hurricane ale. This is simalar to the recipe found in the book Clone brews.
I’ve finally got around to devising something for the Lancastor bomber, the last of my squadron of beer. The idea with this brew is a dark winter ale. It will be slightly stronger at around 5.2%, hopefully.
I’m based it on a recipe, in the book ‘Clone Brews’, for Old Perculiar, only I’ve tweeked a couple of things. We’ll see how it turns out. I goes something like this. I’ve made this in a 2 gallon batch, as my pan isn’t big enough for more, you can scale it up as required. (more…)
So my little sister is a keen cider drinker. I never much care for it myself, but I thought I’d have a go and make some cider. I found a simple recipe on the old t’internet. It goes something like this.
Take 5 cartons of apple juice, now try to get the ones that are just apple juice no flavours or anything else. Empty 4 and a half of them into a sterilised demi john. Then get some yeast, I added wine yeast as I had a pot of it, I used about a teasp full. By my reckoning without adding any water it’ll be about 7%. About 5 days later it had finished bubbling.
I bottled it in 8 75cl pressure bottles, I divided the wine evenly between each bottle then topped each with water. This should bring the alcohol down to about 5%. I primed the bottles with sugar as you would beer, 2 teasps per 75cl. This is quite a lot so should make it quite fizzy. I also added two sacharin tablets per bottle to sweeten the cider, it is very dry straight out of the demi john.
Store the bottles in a warm place, a few days later the cider should be clear. I’ll give a month or so then try it.
[tags]homemade cider, homebrew recipe[/tags]
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