American Style Scotch Ale Recipe

• 3 lb British 2-row grain -- Crushed
• 3 1/4 lb Superbrau plain light malt
• 1 lb Brown sugar
• 1 lb Crystal malt grain
• 4 ounce Chocolate malt grain
• 1 ounce Northern brewer (45 minutes)
• 1/2 ounce Northern brewer (15 minutes)
• 1 ounce Fuggles (5 minutes) Doric acid yeast

1. Bring 1 1/2 gal water to 160 degrees and stir in crushed grains.
2. Keep the mash temp between 148-152 for 1 hr.
3. Best way is to place covered brewing kettle in 140 degree oven.
4. Stir twice while mashing.
5. Test the mash conversion by placing drop of mash onto white plate, then place a drop of iodine into the solution.
6. If solution turns purple/black you must continue the mash till the solution is clear when the iodine is added.
7. Pour mash thru a strainer, allowing the wort to flow thru into your brew pot.
8. Bring 1-2 gal water to 135-150 degrees.
9. Slowly sparge the grains with sparge water till it runs clear.
10. The sparge water will become part of the boil.
11. At this point you will continue as usual.
12. Dissolve malt extract and brown sugar into wort, add in 1 ounce northern brewer hops and boil for 45 minutes.
13. Add in 1/2 ounce plug and boil for 15 minutes more.
14. For the last 5 minutes of the boil, add in the fuggles pellets.
15. Cold the wort and bring volume up to 5 gal.
16. Pitching temp: 80 or possibly less
17. O.G.
18. 1045-1055 F.G. 1010-1014

superbrau plain light malt, brown sugar, crystal, chocolate malt, fuggles

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/american-style-scotch-ale-64794 (may not work)