Honey Apple Ale

Brew Day: 8/04/14
Bottle Day: 8/26/14

Original Gravity: 1.072
Final Gravity: 1.003
Estimated ABV: 9.06%

Ingredients:

• 5 lbs pure, raw and unprocessed honey
• 3.15 lbs light malt extract syrup
• 1 lb extra light dry malt extract
• 1 gallon organic, unfiltered, pasteurized apple juice
• 3 oz Mt. Hood hop pellets
• Yeast

Brew Day — 8/04/14

1. Sanitize all equipment.

2. Combine 2 gallons of warm tap water with the entire contents of the honey jar. Mix until completely dissolved.

3. Add apple juice to honey mixture.

4. Begin boil of 2 gallons of water.

5. When the water is boiling, add all malt extract.

6. Add hops:

• 0:60 – 1 oz Mt. Hood
• 0:30 – 1 oz Mt. Hood
• 0:05 –  1 oz Mt. Hood

7. After an hour of boiling cease the boil and cool wort. Transfer the wort to fermenting bucket, which is holding the honey apple mixture.

8. Pitch yeast.

Bottle Day — 8/26/14

1. Sanitize all equipment.

2. Transfer beer into bottling bucket.

3. Fill bottles and cap, fill growlers and cap, set in the closet to carbonate.

MMM, what to say about this delicious one?? Our apple ale was really tasty, our honey ale from earlier in the summer was delicious, why not combine it all? This was a really high gravity beer, which is probably explained by the great amount of malt that we put into two gallons in the boil as well as a high-sugar mixture of honey and apple juice. The flavor was evenly spread between all three pieces, which was really awesome. There was the tart and sweet apple cider flavor; the sweet, dry flavor of the honey; the malty, hoppy, beery characteristics of the beer. You could taste the high alcohol content in the aftertaste–almost the fire-breath sensation after taking a shot. A pint of Honey Apple Ale and you will feel a little loopy. Two pints and it’s a party!