This is one of my favorite beers. I love this beer when it is hot out, I like it when it is cold out – this beer is simply easy to drink. It has a white head and an amber body. For a while it was near impossible for me to ever make this beer because of the hop, “Challenger” was just so difficult to get, but now I have lots of it. Over all this is an easy beer to make and easy one to drink. If you make it soon it will be a good, “bridge” beer for the cooler months into the nicer days. If you are looking to do it all-grain check out the conversion chart.
Ingredients
12 oz 60L
5.25 lbs Light DMe
8 oz cane sugar
4 oz wheat DME
1 oz Challenger (60min)
1/2 oz Kent Goldings (15min)
1/2 oz Challenger (15min)
1 oz Kent Goldings (1min)
WLP 013
Specs
OG: 1.052
FG: 1.010
IBU: 35
SRM: 12
ABV: 5.2%
Directions
- Heat 2.5 gallons of water up to 150 degrees, steep grains for 30 min
- After 30 min take the grains out and add DME cane sugar and 1 oz Challenger
- Bring to boil
- Boil for 45 minutes
- Add 1/2 oz East Kent Goldings and 1/2 oz Challenger
- Boil for 14 minutes
- Add 1 oz East Kent Goldings
- Boil for 1 minute
- End boil
- Cool down, put in fermenter, pitch yeast
- Ferment for 7 -14 days
- Bottle with 3/4 cup of corn sugar
- Let sit in bottles for 2-3 weeks
- Ready to drink when carbonated
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Jay's Brewing Blog 
February 21, 2013 at 5:57 pm
We enjoy making home brewed beer. Nothing like it. 🙂 Glad I found this blog.
February 21, 2013 at 11:46 pm
Me too! Enjoy the hobby!
February 22, 2013 at 7:58 am
We’re waiting to try our Black Sheep Ale clone in a few weeks. 🙂
February 22, 2013 at 8:43 am
Care to share the clone?
February 22, 2013 at 8:50 am
I’ll be doing a post on it once it is drinkable. Though keep in mind it will be from a beginners point of view. I don’t go into the specific gravity etc.
February 22, 2013 at 10:40 am
Legit!
February 22, 2013 at 5:37 am
Definitely agree with you about Old Speckled Hen fantastic beer – one of my dad’s favourites as well. Have you brewed this clone before? Interested to know how it turns out… one to add to my own brewlist 😀
February 22, 2013 at 8:42 am
This particular one no – it was because I could never get the Challenger though. I would have to substitute the challenger with target with the appropriate AAU for target. I knew that it was suppose to be Challenger for the hops though when I brewed it. This is the real deal for the recipe. And yea, it’s an amazing beer to have. I was thinking on which one is going to be my next one to brew – this is the one that it is going to be for sure!
April 24, 2015 at 6:37 pm
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