Apple Beer

Recipe

Primary

• 1.2 lbs Gold LME

• 1 gal Apple juice

• Water to ~2.25 gal

• 1 oz Galaxy hops

  • Half in the boil, half in a small brew bag during primary

• Reused Lallemand Windsor

  • I reused the yeast I washed from the Elderflower Braggot, don't really know exactly how much was in there.

Secondary

• Bottle conditioning

• Maybe back sweetening, will have to taste

Gravity & ABV

• OG 1.049

• FG ~1.006 (That's what this yeast hit last time)

• ABV ~5.98%

Nutrients

Just basic Batchbuildr stuff. Rounded up

• GoFerm: 6.25g

• Fermaid O: 3.9g

• Fermaid K: 4.4g

• DAP: 0.8g

Notes

This is me brewing with leftover ingredients - the only thing I purchased for this recipe was the hops. I thought with this weird combination it might be necessary to try picking hops that augment some of what we have going on here; after a little research I went with Galaxy.

I originally was aiming for more like OG 1.042, but when I measured 1.049, I remembered that with some LME in here, it probably won't ferment completely dry. So I figured it was actually better to have the gravity right about where it was, and decided against diluting it to hit my originally planned OG.

As far as the weird ~2.25 gallon size goes - that was decided mostly by realizing I had about enough LME for 1 gallon of water, and the apple juice was a gallon. Rounded it up just about a quart hoping I could get an even 2 gallons in secondary.