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I decided to go with a flavorful, high-gravity pale ale, still english style though.

* 1 lbs Muntons Extra-Light DME
* 6.6 lbs (2 cans) Muntons Extra-light LME
* 1.4 lbs (1 can)  Alexanders SUn Country Pale LME
* .5 lbs Golden Promise malt
* .25 lbs Honey malt
* .25 lbs Maris Otter malt
* .25 lbs Optic malt
* 1 oz Fuggle hops pellets
* 1 oz Soverign hops pellets
* 1 tube White Labs 002 English Ale yeast
* 1 tsp Irish Moss
* 5 oz priming sugar

Boiled ~1.5 gallons of water.  Cooled to ~180F, added grains and soaked for 45 minutes.  Added 2.5 gallons of water and brought to 190F.  Added LME and DME.  Brought 10 ~180F, added soverign hops, and started a 1 hour timer.  At 30 minutes, added the irish moss.  At 15 minutes added the fuggle hops.  Cooled in a sink full of cold water to ~88F.  Added 1 gallon of cold water and pitched at 82F.  -Morrigu July 26, 2012

IG: 1.074 @ 82F = 1.0768 @ 60F

Racked.  Darker than I wanted.  Closer in color to a brown ale, but it's very tasty.  This is going to be so easy to drink.  I'll probably dry hop for a few days or a week to get a little more hoppy nose and flavor into it.  Regardless, it'll be a really nice, mellow beer, even if it hits the potential 8%. -Morrigu August 2, 2012

Bottled with [[User:Loken|Loken]].  Nice red amber.  Sweet and malty with very little hoppiness or bitterness. -Morrigu August 22, 2012