Craig Pinhey digs through the records and discovers that Keiths Ale was once brewed with no corn and five times the hops.
Excerpt from:
Beer, documented (The Coast)
Category: Brown Ale
Recipe Type: All Grain
Ingredients:
Fermentables
7 lbs Klages malt
.25 lbs chocolate malt
.25 lbs black patent malt
.5 lbs 80 L. crystal malt
.75 cup corn sugar (priming)
Hops
1 oz Willamette hops (3.8% alpha) (boil 60 minutes)
4/5 oz Perle hops (8.5% alpha) (boil 30 minutes)
.5 oz Willamette hops (3.8% alpha) (dry hop)
Other
.5 tsp Irish moss (boil 15 minutes)
Yeast Wyeast English ale yeast
Category: Wheat Beer
Recipe Type: All Grain
Ingredients:
7.75 lbs mix of 66% malted wheat extract and 33% barley
1 lbs crystal malt (steeped, removed before boil)
1 lbs amber unhopped dry malt extract
Hops
1.5 oz Kent Goldings hops (5.6% alpha) (60 minute
.5 oz Kent Goldings (10 minute boil)
.5 oz Kent Goldings (5 minute boil)
.5 oz Kent Goldings (in strainer, pour wort through)
Other
.5 oz Irish moss (15 minute boil)
.75 oz Burton water salts
Yeast
2 packs Doric ale yeast (started 2 hours prior to brew)