| Letter from the Editor: Beer & Broken Hearts |
| Featured: The Brew Process Pterodactale |
| Ptotem: Raccoon |
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no later than February 20th. All submissions
will be included in March's Ptero Heart.
Submissions of original sharky images
should be sent to pterobones@gmail.com
no later than February 20th. All submissions
will be included in March's Ptero Heart.
| Welcome to the Ptero Heart of Luna Taylor |
February 2010
| Featured Artist: Brewer Jen Kent |
| M-shine |
| PTERODACTALE IPA |
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Step One.
Prepare for making 220 gallons of Pterodactale IPA by having
a cup of coffee, stretching out, and slowly waking up.
Prepare for making 220 gallons of Pterodactale IPA by having
a cup of coffee, stretching out, and slowly waking up.
Step Two.
Choose your recipe. This is where we determine what kind of
grains and hops we want to use. We want Pterodactale to be
an IPA, and we will use the standard grain base for IPA. We
have chosen these hops.
Bitter hops: Brewers Gold
Flavor hops: Amarillo
Aroma hops: Cascade
Aroma hops: Golding
Hops smell delicious. After all, they are flowers.
Choose your recipe. This is where we determine what kind of
grains and hops we want to use. We want Pterodactale to be
an IPA, and we will use the standard grain base for IPA. We
have chosen these hops.
Bitter hops: Brewers Gold
Flavor hops: Amarillo
Aroma hops: Cascade
Aroma hops: Golding
Hops smell delicious. After all, they are flowers.
Step Three
Mash in. We put the grain through the mill to have it cracked
open, put it into the mash tun, and then we add water to start
converting the starches to sugar.
Mash in. We put the grain through the mill to have it cracked
open, put it into the mash tun, and then we add water to start
converting the starches to sugar.
Step Four
Take its temperature, and let it set for about half an hour.
Take its temperature, and let it set for about half an hour.
Step Five
Sparge. This is where we start to slowly fill the kettle, washing
all the sugars off the grain to create what is called wort.
Sparge. This is where we start to slowly fill the kettle, washing
all the sugars off the grain to create what is called wort.
Step Six
We then boil the wort and add the hops.
We then boil the wort and add the hops.
Step Seven
We then take the boiled wort out of the kettle, and put it up
into the fermenter. The beer then ferments as the yeast eats
the sugar to create alcohol. We use just a regular house ale
yeast for this recipe. This is about a 6 to 10 day process of it
being brewed, fermented, then being tapped on line.
The special ingredient we are adding for flavor for the
Pterodactale IPA is star anise. We will put that into a sweet
little hopsock when we are kegging, let it age a few days then
taste it.
As soon as we keg it, we can tap it and put it on line to taste
right then. It might be a bit green on some beers but usually it
does well.
We then take the boiled wort out of the kettle, and put it up
into the fermenter. The beer then ferments as the yeast eats
the sugar to create alcohol. We use just a regular house ale
yeast for this recipe. This is about a 6 to 10 day process of it
being brewed, fermented, then being tapped on line.
The special ingredient we are adding for flavor for the
Pterodactale IPA is star anise. We will put that into a sweet
little hopsock when we are kegging, let it age a few days then
taste it.
As soon as we keg it, we can tap it and put it on line to taste
right then. It might be a bit green on some beers but usually it
does well.
| Recipe: Beer Bread |