We have recently started putting together some new and different recipes using our favourite products. We love our commercial clones, but also enjoying our own home brew beer recipes. This week we are sharing our Total Eclipse recipe with you. Fun fact: Jas is a big fan of Jim Steinman. Not sure who Jim Steinman is? Think, Bat Out of Hell, Paradise By The Dashboard Light and, of course, Total Eclipse of The Heart. Absolute classics!
Now, all of our Crafted Taste home brew beer recipes are proudly named after songs, more specifically, Jim Steinman songs. When deciding on our next brew it was hard to look past using Morgan’s Eclipse Hops. So here you have it, our home brew beer recipe: Total Eclipse.
HOW TO BREW
MIX: Pour 2 litres of water into sanitised fermenter and add the contents of the Black Rock Pilsner Blonde and Crafted Taste 1kg Booster Blend. Use the Crafted Taste Gold Blend for a mid strength. Stir contents to dissolve and add cold water to bring the contents up to 23 litres. Use a hydrometer to record the Original Gravity. Pitch the American Ale Yeast when the brew is below 24˚C.
FERMENTING Home Brew Beer Recipe: Seal the fermenter with lid and airlock. Ferment at a constant temperature until the specific gravity reaches 1.010 (FG) or below. Ideal fermentation temperature is 18-23˚C.
DRY HOPS: 2 days out from bottling/kegging open the fermenter lid and add the Eclipse 50g Hops to the fermenter. Leave these in the fermenter no more than 2 days.
BOTTLING: Gently fill clean and sanitised PET bottles to about 3cm from the top. Add carbonation drops at the rate of 1 per 330ml/375ml bottle and 2 per 740ml/750ml bottle. Sugar or dextrose may be used at the rate of 8g per litre (approximately 6g of sugar to a level metric teaspoon). Then secure the caps.
MATURING: Allow Bottles to stand at a temperature between 22˚C and 30˚C for 5 days to allow the beer to carbonate. Allow another 10 days at room temperature to fully mature. The finished beer will continue to improve with further ageing.
KEGGING: Check out our ‘A Guide To Kegging – How To Keg Beer’ blog post
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