India Pale Ale
Last Saturday morning I brewed beer and baked an apple pie. Inexplicably, I didn’t take pictures of the pie.
The recipe is Beer At Home’s IPA kit. It should ferment down to about 1.010 in another week. As long as there are no delays in bottling, it will be marginally ready to drink in time for New Year’s.
If you were concerned, the pie really turned out alright, even being gluten-free as it was. Presentation left something to be desired—I really need to work on the crust, gluten or no—but it has gone over well.
UPDATE (12/19/06): I bottled it this evening. It’s good an hoppy, so if it doesn’t mellow during conditioning, it will be a winner.
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- Posted by Tim on Monday, December 11, 2006 at 9:43:35 pm PST
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6 Responses to “India Pale Ale”
Zymurgy returns!
Comment Permalink | Posted on December 12th, 2006 at 9:07 am |And I say welcome back to it! It has been too long.
Comment Permalink | Posted on December 12th, 2006 at 4:45 pm |I’ll trade you a jar of grape jelly for a bottle ‘o brew……
Comment Permalink | Posted on December 13th, 2006 at 8:22 am |Perhaps you need an appropriate housing for any December beer you still have around:
See: http://kimriddlebarger.squarespace.com/the-latest-post/2006/12/13/lutheran-advent-calendar.html
Comment Permalink | Posted on December 13th, 2006 at 4:59 pm |Susan: works for me! Except I think you’ll need two or three bottles to equal the worth of one jar of jelly.
Nancy: now that’s a good idea. We were just talking about a beer-based advent calendar the other day, only I was thinking each door would reveal a stein full of a new kind of beer. That would be hard to manage without a tap in each door, though. One wonders about the industrial controls needed to make that work…
Comment Permalink | Posted on December 14th, 2006 at 8:07 am |Tim: Ha! What a great exchange rate
Nancy: That link is hilarious! I was raised Lutheran and it’s totally the truth!
Comment Permalink | Posted on December 14th, 2006 at 5:23 pm |