White House Honey Ale
White House Honey Ale is the much-anticipated recipe to White House beer.[1]
1½ oz Kent Goldings Hop Pellets
1½ oz Fuggles Hop pellets
2 cans (6.6 lb) light malt extract
1 lb light dried malt extract
12 oz crushed amber crystal malt
8 oz Biscuit Malt
1 lb White House honey
2 tsp gypsum
1 pkg Windsor dry ale yeast
¾ cup corn sugar (powdered glucose) for priming
Place each type of hop pellets in a separate hops steeping bag.
In an 12 qt pot, steep the hops bags in 1½ gallons of sterile water at 155°F for ½ hour. Remove the bag.
½ hour
Add the light malt extract and the dried malt extract and bring to a boil.
For the first flavoring, add the Kent Goldings hop pellets and gypsum. Boil for 45 minutes.
45 minutes
For the second flavoring, add the Fuggles hop pellets at the last minute of the boil.
Stir in the honey and boil for 5 more minutes.
Add 2 gallons chilled sterile water into the primary fermenter and add the hot wort into it. Top with more water to total 5 gallons. There is no need to strain.
Add the yeast when wort temperature is between 70–80°F. Fill airlock halfway with water.
Ferment at 68–72°F for about 7 days.
Rack the mixture to a secondary fermenter after 5 days and ferment for 14 more days.
To bottle, dissolve the corn sugar into 2 pints of boiling water for 15 minutes.
15 minutes
Pour the sugar mixture into an empty bottling bucket. Siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. Distribute priming sugar evenly.
Siphon everything into bottles and cap. Let sit for 2–3 weeks at 75°F.