Formula: Classic American Blonde + 1 lb Amber DME
Brew Date: February 26, 2011
ferment time: 21 days
Bottle Date: March 19, 2011
conditioning time: 4 weeks
Open Date: April 16, 2011
Original Gravity:: 1.036
Brewing process:
- Brought 8 cups water almost to a boil, added 1 lb Amber DME
- dissolved all and brought it to foam over
- reduced heat, boiled for 10 minutes
- at flameout, added 1 can Classic American Blonde HME
- added to cold water in keg, topped off to 8.5 Q with cold water and pitched 2 packets of standard Mr Beer yeast
Trying to brew a classic American beer (think Bud/Miller) for Dennis, my co-baseball coach. This batch should be ready around the start of baseball season.
The name is inspired by Dennis: He and his brothers take an annual fishing trip to the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan. There are equal parts fishing and beer drinking. At one point, his brother cast his lure into a tree, and rather than give up a $3 lure, he elected to climb the tree. Drunk. At night.
He came screaming back down the tree, convinced that he had seen some kind of crazy beast up there. "It had the face of a dog, but some kind of body like a monkey!"
Since then, any unidentified or unidentifiable beast has been called a "dogmonkey".
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