Basic Key Words For Brewing:
• Partial mash – which means dry Malt extract
(DME) & specialty Grains
• Uses Cooper's malt- the only DME made by a professional brewery
• Uses Cooper dried yeast
• Uses a variety of pellet hops
• Finishes out at 6.5% alcohol by volume (Miller& Coors=3.2%
ABV, Bud=5%)
IPA
• Indian Pale Ale - a stronger hoppier version of Pale
Ale made to ferment in oak barrels on the way to the troops in India.
• The additional hops and alcohol act as preservatives during
the long haul to India.
• This Ale might be not be black or brown but in comparison it's
just as strong.
Porter
• Often called the Granddaddy of Stout.
• The first industrial produced ale. It replaced blended beer.
Three or more types of beers or “threads” would be blended together and
served.
• It was mass produced and served primarily to the working class
who were mainly porters.
• Pretty much everything ended up in the porters, from herbs
and spices to medicines and hallucinogenic, to out right poison (we do not
include any of these in our kits!).
• Malt was originally kilned over open wood fires, which would
in turn impart some of there smoky flavors to the grains, this kit may have
peat-smoked malt init.
• Goes well with vanilla, chocolate, fruits, spice and coffee.
Stout
• This is an Irish Stout, also known as dry Stout.
• “Originally an accident” Grain is kilned to varying degrees.
The more it's kilned the darker it gets, and the more caramelized the sugars
get. While kilning grain for a porter, some long ago brewer let it burn
by mistake. Being a thrifty sort, he threw the burnt grain into the brew
anyway.
• The result was so popular that it eventually drove Porter completely
out of the market place and into obscurity for centuries.
• Goes well with vanilla, cherries, chocolate, etc.
90 Shilling Ale
• This is a Scottish Ale. May also be called a Wee Heavy.
• 90 Shilling refers to the Scottish method of taxing ale. Indicating
high alcohol content.
• Hops do not grow well in Scotland. Therefore Scottish Ales
where more smoky and very Malty.
• Grain is kilned over open fires for smoky flavor; this kit
has peat-smoked grain and malt in it.
Wheat Ale
• Barley makes good beer and poor bread. Wheat makes
great beer and good bread. Most people, left to them, would make great beer
and go hungry. Laws had to be enacted to make people make bread with wheat
and beer with barley just to keep the populace from starving. However, the
nobles who enacted these laws still allowed beer to be made from wheat,
but only for consumption by the nobles.
In the words of Pirate Paul;
You need to believe in something,
I believe I'll have another beer!!!
Spice Traders & Teas:
Home Brewing Kits
Welcome to the wonderful world of home brewing! Brewing is as complicated or as simple as you want it to be. The methods we outline in our kits are not the only way to brew. In fact it is a combination of several methods we have used in the past. If this is your first time brewing then, in the immortal words of Charlie Papazian (the undisputed father of American home brewing);
“RELAX… DON'T WORRY… HAVE A HOMEBREW!”
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