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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Latest Beer Recipes

Another LeMons is coming up. We'll be at Carolina Motorsports Park racing cars and giving away free beer May 3-4. (LeMons event page). Come on out, have a beer, and cheer on your favorite Honda race team. In case you can't make it, but want awesome beer anyway. Try these receipes. They are what I'll be bringing to the track n May.

Rice beer

5-6 cups cooked rice - add to blender
Fill blender with water to the top of the rice
Add 8oz honey to the blender and liquefy for a couple of minutes
Half fill your brewing pot with water
Pour in blended rice
3.3lbs Pilsen Light LME
3 tablespoons ginger
Bring to a boil
Bittering hops - 2oz Nelson Sauvin hops (30mins)
Flavor/Aroma hops - 1oz Mosaic (5mins)
Chill and pour wort into carboy, and fill to 5+ gallons with water
Add Kolsch yeast
Dry hop - 1oz Citra (leaf)

Mulled beer

Steep grains (30mins):
  • 1/2 lb Carapils (Dextrine) Grain - Briess
  • 1/2 lb Special B Grain - Dingemans Belgian
  • 1 lb Maris Otter Pale Malt - Muntons
Add Malts and spices and bring to a boil
  • 3.3lbs golden light LME
  • 3lbs Wheat DME
  • 2oz sweet orange peel
  • 1oz cinnamon sticks
  • 1oz cardamom seeds
  • 3 tablespoons Cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons Anise seeds
  • 3 tablespoons Nutmeg
  • 5-8 Cloves
Bittering hops - 1oz Hallertau (35 min)
Flavor/Aroma hops - 1oz Sazz (5min)
Chill wort and add British ale yeast
When bottling add 4oz Blackberry fruit flavoring

What Do We Do When We Aren't Racing?

We race some more!

Yep, we are pretty much single minded and obsessed with emptying our wallets at race tracks. A few videos of our leisure time (outside of Chump and LeMons races).

Roger driving Duffy at a Tarheel Sports Car Club event:


Ricky, same car same evert:


And finally me, Robert, tossing my Focus ST around a Peachtree BMWCCA AutoX: