Righteous American Real Ale

Name of beer: Righteous American Real Ale

Batch size: 5 gal

Brew date: 12/3/2011

Ingredients:

4 1/2 lbs Amber DME

1 1/2 oz Cascade hop pellets (boiling) - 7-8 HBU

1/2 oz Yakima Goldings hop pellets (finishing)

2 tsp Gypsum

1 pkg Safale S-04 (11.5g) dried ale yeast

Highlights:

Wort volume: 2 gal

Total boil time: 60 min

Boil time after adding finishing hops: 1 min

Temperature at yeast pitching: 89F

Corrected specific gravity at yeast pitching: 1.040 + 0.004 = 1.044

Bottled 12/15/2011: 50 bottles

Corrected specific gravity at bottling: 1.011

Alcohol content: 3.47%

Good to go on 12/23/2011

Has aged well with time by 1/15/2012

The lower carbonation in this recipe is okay but I would probably go for 3/4 cup corn sugar at bottling next time

This recipe is taken from The Complete Joy of Homebrewing (3rd Edition).