Mosquito Bomber Pale Ale
The Mosquito was a formidable light twin engine bomber that was the fastest aircraft going during WWII, it was of course British, capable of fast precision bombing and was near invunerable from attack by any other plane, it simply outran them.
What has this got to do with beer you ask, well this is the first in a series of beers that are named after aircraft, commercially there is the Spitfire a real ale from Kent, well now there is the Mosquito Bomber a pale ale from yorkshire. Following on from this there will be a Hurricane and a Lancastor bomber. The lanc’ will also make a fine winter ale, as it’ll be dark with a hint of something, I haven’t decided what yet.
The main ingredient in this ale is Styrian Goldings hops. 1oz of these to be exact. These were boiled in 6 pints of water for about 10 mins. The hops were strained out and the liquid added to the fermenter. To this was added 600grms of pale spray dried malt and 350 grms of glucose. I then used a Brewmaker Basic Lager kit as the main source of malt extract, I will be experimenting soon with using pure malt extract instead of the kits.
I used an Ale yeast instead of the yeast that comes with the kit. I used Safale S04, I’ve used this yeast before and know it produces good results.
This beer is design not to be primed, I shall be putting it straight into my new Cornelius Keg, if you wish to bottle this then reduce the glucose by 100grms to allow for the priming sugar.
It’s a fairly simple recipe, but by using the keg it should be ready in about 2 weeks.
[tags]homemade beer, homebrew recipe, homebrew beer [/tags]
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June 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Thanks for this post. I am going ot try this one, i was just googling hom brew ales. I will let you know how it turns out.