Thanks to Steve Boyer for posting this tasty-looking recipe, and 
one quick nag to everyone else: This was the only homebrew recipe posted
on the forum message board this week.  Please share your recipes to help
build up a great collection in our library!


Sb: Brown Squirrel Ale
Fm: Steve Boyer 73475,1530

Here's the lowdown on the Brown Squirrel Ale.  Why Brown Squirrel? I have a
bunch of them in my back yard, and they were what I was looking at when I was
trying to think up a name..... I set out to make a strong brown ale,,,, and I
was successful...

2 cans (8 lbs) Yellow Dog malt extract. 2 1/2 cups light crystal malt, lightly
crushed (rolling pin), 3/4 cup chocolate malt, lightly crushed, 2 1/2 ounce
Malto-dextrin powder, 3/4 ounce Chinook hop pellets in boil (30 min), 1 oz.
Cascade hop pellets last 10 min. 3/4 oz of cascade at very end of boil.. 1 pkg
yeast nutrient/heading salts...

put crystal and choc. malts in 2 1/2 gallons water, heat to 160 then remove
grains... Put rest of ingredients in (except finish hops) and boil for 40 min.
3/4 oz. Chinook hop pellets added at beginning of boil.. At last 10 min. of
boil, add 1 oz Cascade.. At end of boil add final 3/4 oz. Cascade.. Put the
entire concoction into a large primary. Add pre-boiled water to make 5 1/2
gallons. Pitch yeast at 70deg. (I used Doric dry Ale) rack to secondary early
(3 days?) The large amount of trub loses about 1/2 gallon to get a clean
secondary!

After 3 days in the bottle, I was afraid I had overdone the finishing hops.
The Cascade came out alittle strong.....But after a month in the bottle, wow,
the stuff is great!! and STRONG...  The great malt taste will really come out
in the finish and stick with your taste buds a long time! My neighbors are 
from the  Phillipines (doctors no less!)  They claim it's the first beer they
have had in the U.S. thats strong enough for there liking....I'm no expert
brewer, but I think this combo came out pretty darn good, thanks to luck and
your Yellow Dog..