Clean Your Bagpipes | Beer Recipe Kit

Brew a classic and flavorful ale with our Clean Your Bagpipes Recipe Kit! This recipe is perfect for crafting a malt-forward beer with a touch of sweetness and a smooth, balanced finish. Featuring traditional ingredients and a touch of chocolate and caramel notes, this brew is ideal for fans of complex yet approachable ales.

What’s Inside:

• Grain Bill

  • 5.5 lbs Maris Otter
  • 1 lb Crystal 40
  • 0.5 lb Honey Malt
  • 0.5 lb Munich Malt
  • 0.25 lb Chocolate Malt
  • 0.25 lb Crystal 120

• Hops

  • 1 oz Kent Goldings (60 min boil)

• Yeast

  • White Labs Edinburgh Ale Yeast

Instructions:

1. Mash

• Heat 5 gallons of water to 150°F (65°C).
• Add grains to your mash tun and hold at 150°F for 60 minutes.
• Sparge with 4 gallons of water heated to 170°F (77°C) to collect 6.5 gallons of wort.

2. Boil

• Bring the wort to a vigorous boil for 60 minutes. Add hops as indicated:
  • 60 min: 1 oz Kent Goldings

3. Cool and Ferment

• Cool wort to 70°F using a wort chiller or ice bath.
• Transfer wort to a sanitized fermenter and pitch the yeast.
• Ferment at 70°F for 1-2 weeks or until fermentation is complete.

4. Bottle or Keg

• Bottle your beer with 6 oz of priming sugar for carbonation or keg and force carbonate.
• Allow bottled beer to condition for 2-3 weeks before serving.

Tasting Notes:

Clean Your Bagpipes is a malt-forward ale with a smooth and layered profile. Expect rich caramel and toffee flavors from Crystal malts, a hint of honey sweetness, and subtle chocolate undertones. The traditional Kent Goldings hops provide a delicate earthy and floral bitterness to round out the beer.

ABV: ~4.5% | IBU: ~20

Brew this traditional yet nuanced ale with the Clean Your Bagpipes Recipe Kit, a perfect choice for those who appreciate malty, balanced beers!