RecipeDB - Mack n Jack African Amber

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Mack n Jack African Amber

Ale - American Amber Ale
All Grain

Brewer's Notes

The brewery claim they DON'T use the sweetened dried orange peel - so perhaps they have a very peculiar yeast characteristic. But this really nails that unusual bitter the mack'n'jack has. I add about 28g of peel for 30 minutes in the boil. If you can't get the dried ones in the pack, get the seville oranges and use the peels.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	5.6 kg	Bairds Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt
	0.54 kg	JWM Dark Crystal
	0.3 kg	JWM Crystal 140
	0.28 kg	Weyermann Carapils(Carafoam)

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	60 g	Centennial (Pellet, 10.0AA%, 60mins)
	34 g	Cascade (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 2mins)
	17 g	Cascade (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 0mins)

Yeast

1200 ml

Wyeast Labs 1098 - British Ale

Misc

28 g

Orange Peel

25L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.059 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.015 (calc)
• Bitterness 59.2 IBU
• Efficiency 70%
• Alcohol 5.72%
• Colour 32 EBC
• Batch Size 25L

Fermentation

• Primary 7 days
• Secondary 7 days
• Conditioning 2 days

 

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This beer has a cult following in Seattle. The guy who cloned it went through about 12 versions before he was happy.

The sweetened dried orange peel gives it such a unique twist on the bitterness that you don't quite know what's hitting your tastebuds. A guy who worked at the brewery claim they don't use the orange peel, (maybe they have an unusual yeast?) but it absolutely nails the taste.