ARCTIC SCHVITZ
                                       or
                    MONASTERY BEER OF THE TEMPLES OF SYRINX

1/2 lb. Aromatic Malt
        Steep at 145¡F for 30 min.
        add
6.6 lb. Northwestern Gold Malt Extract,
        Water to 3 gallons
1 pkg.  Carlson Yeast Starter
        75 minute boil
1 oz.   Northern Brewer leaf hops (8-10% AAU) at :75
1 oz.   Olympia hop pellets (9.9% AAU) at :60
1/2 oz. Eroica hop pellets (9.5% AAU) at :02

O.G. 1.052

Wyeast 2112 California Common Yeast, pitched at 70¡F
After one day, moved to "cool spot" at 45-55¡F

5 weeks in primary

Racked to bottling bucket to set outside for "eis-ing." Drew off about half of
volume in ice.

4 weeks in secondary at 45¡F
Gravity: 1.022
Primed with 12 oz. Malto Goya with 1/4 teaspoon of dry Lager yeast.

Total yield, 3 gallons.

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Entered in the Brewers of South Suburbia 13th Annual Chicago Cup Challenge,
April 3, 2004. Rating: 29.5 out of possible 50.

Judges comments: "Aroma: Low everything. California Common should have some hop
aroma... Nice head and color... Dry, don't notice alcohols, clean for a lager.
Lacks malt character, very astingent."

"Nice hoppy nose, some alcoholic overtones. Not much malt... Hops are a bit
overpowering. The finish is all bitterness and dry, causing a certain unpleasant
astingency... Not a pounding beer but not a sipping beer either. Finish is
painful. It keeps going and going in the astirngent range."