Five Minute Mild

I wrote this beer recipe in about five minutes before running off to the homebrew store before they closed, and without doing any calculations. I intended this to be a very easy to brew session beer. My first time brewing it, the starting specific gravity was 1.036. Yours will vary. This beer does not need to age very long at all. Brew it, ferment it, keg it, and get to drinking it.

Extract recipe

Ingredients

• 3 lb. light malt extract syrup
• 6 oz. 60L crystal malt
• 4 oz. Chocolate malt
• 1.5 oz. Fuggle (60 minutes)
• 0.5 oz. Fuggle (5 minutes)
• Wyeast #1318 (London Ale Yeast III)

Procedure

• Place crushed grains in two muslin bags and add to 1.5 gallons of water.
• Heat water to 150-170° F and hold for 30 minutes.
• Remove grains, sparge with hot water, and discard.
• Add 1.5 oz. Fuggle hops. Boil 60 minutes.
• With 5 minutes remaining, add 0.5 oz. Fuggle hops.
• Cool with wort chiller to ~ 75° F and add to water in carboy. Top up to 5 gallons.
• Pitch yeast.
• Bottle or keg when fermentation is complete.
• Age approximately three weeks.