Tuesday, March 31, 2009

38 Schilling Scottish Export Ale Recipe


In case anybody out there would like to replicate our experience, this time I will include the recipe!

BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com

Recipe: 38 Schilling Scottish Export Ale

Brewer: Tres Perros Brewing
Style: Scottish Export 80/-
TYPE: Extract

Recipe Specifications --------------------------

Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 2.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.042 SG
Estimated Color: 18.8 SRM
Estimated IBU: 25.9 IBU
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients: ------------

2.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM) Dry Extract 32.73 %
3.30 lb Amber Liquid Extract (12.5 SRM) Extract 54.01 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 8.18 %
0.25 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 4.09 %
0.06 lb Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 0.98 %

1.50 oz Glacier [5.60 %] (60 min) Hops 17.7 IBU
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (20 min) Hops 6.4 IBU
1.00 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] (5 min) Hops 1.9 IBU

1 Pkgs Scottish Ale (Wyeast Labs #1728) Yeast-Ale



Happy Brewing!!

Monday, March 30, 2009

Isla Fisher


Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, playing Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, and has since become known for her roles in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson,[1] 2007's Hot Rod. and 2009's Confessions of a Shopaholic.

At the age of 18, with the help of her mother, she wrote two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, that became bestsellers. From 1994 to 1997 she played the role of Shannon Reed on the hit Australian soap opera Home and Away. After leaving the popular soap, Fisher enrolled at a prestigious theatre and arts training school in Paris, and went on to appear in Pantomime in the United Kingdom. She also toured with Darren Day in the Summer Holiday musical, and appeared in a London theatre production called Così. In 2002 she had a part in the film version of Scooby-Doo as Mary-Jane, Shaggy's love interest, and subsequently was taken on by an American agent. A larger role in Wedding Crashers, alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, in 2005 won her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards. While promoting Wedding Crashers, she was officially crowned the 1000th guest on Australian talk show Rove on 2 August 2005. She entered the set ahead of Owen Wilson, winning the title by two meters.

In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host, in the relationship drama London co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham. In 2007, she appeared in The Lookout, a thriller co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, and Hot Rod, opposite Andy Samberg. She was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version. In 2008, she starred in Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs, Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, and Abigail Breslin, and had a voice role in Horton Hears a Who! Fisher has also co-written a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen. She starred in the movie adaption of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, which opened on February 13, 2009. In the film, Fisher played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction.

Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Batch #002 Brewday - Tres Perros Brewing!

Yes, yes I havent posted in long time, and there are some fun excuses for that that maybe I will explain later on, but not in this post. Instead, we will jump right back into the swing of things with a post about. . . . HOMEBREWING! yes, we have taken it up, more seriously these days. Carrie even named our little endeavor "Tres Perros Brewing", after these three fools:



Cute, huh?

Well anyway we are going to be brewing quite a bit more these days, and I figured I could post our adventures here. For now its mostly malt extract based recipes, but we intend to get more in depth with time Today we brewed a Scottish Export Ale, which I named 38 Schilling Ale in honor of the recently retired Red Sox pitcher. Here is a look at the brewsheet:

recipe

Brewing extracts (with specialty grains) is a relatively simple, if a bit time consuming, procedure. First you put all the grains in a sack, and stew them in some hot, but not boiling water for half an hour:

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After that, you remove the grains and bring the liquid to a boil, and add the malt extract (Dried, Liquid, or in our case, BOTH):

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During the boil you also add hop pellets at certain intervals (in our case 60min/30min/5min), to enhance the flavor and add bitterness to balance the malts sweetness.

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After boiling. the resulting liquid (called "wort") is cooled, strained, and added to the container it will ferment in, and the yeast (Wyeast 1728 in our case) is added:

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Now, all there is left to do, is wait while the yeast does its thing. Happy munching little guys!