Cookbook:White House Honey Ale

White House Honey Ale is the much-anticipated recipe to White House beer.

Ingredients

 * 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

Procedure

 * 1) Place each type of hop pellets in a separate hops steeping bag.
 * 2) In an 12 qt pot, steep the hops bags in 1½ gallons of sterile water at 155°F for ½ hour. Remove the bag.
 * 3) Add the light malt extract and the dried malt extract and bring to a boil.
 * 4) For the first flavoring, add the Kent Goldings hop pellets and gypsum. Boil for 45 minutes.
 * 5) For the second flavoring, add the Fuggles hop pellets at the last minute of the boil.
 * 6) Stir in the honey and boil for 5 more minutes.
 * 7) 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.
 * 8) Add the yeast when wort temperature is between 70–80°F. Fill airlock halfway with water.
 * 9) Ferment at 68–72°F for about 7 days.
 * 10) Rack the mixture to a secondary fermenter after 5 days and ferment for 14 more days.
 * 11) To bottle, dissolve the corn sugar into 2 pints of boiling water for 15 minutes.
 * 12) Pour the sugar mixture into an empty bottling bucket. Siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. Distribute priming sugar evenly.
 * 13) Siphon everything into bottles and cap. Let sit for 2–3 weeks at 75°F.