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
Instructions
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1Place each type of hop pellets in a separate hops steeping bag.
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2In an 12 qt pot, steep the hops bags in 1½ gallons of sterile water at 155°F for ½ hour. Remove the bag.
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3Add the light malt extract and the dried malt extract and bring to a boil.
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4For the first flavoring, add the Kent Goldings hop pellets and gypsum. Boil for 45 minutes.
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5For the second flavoring, add the Fuggles hop pellets at the last minute of the boil.
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6Stir in the honey and boil for 5 more minutes.
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7Add 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.
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8Add the yeast when wort temperature is between 70–80°F. Fill airlock halfway with water.
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9Ferment at 68–72°F for about 7 days.
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10Rack the mixture to a secondary fermenter after 5 days and ferment for 14 more days.
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11To bottle, dissolve the corn sugar into 2 pints of boiling water for 15 minutes.
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12Pour the sugar mixture into an empty bottling bucket. Siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. Distribute priming sugar evenly.
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13Siphon everything into bottles and cap. Let sit for 2–3 weeks at 75°F.
- Category
- Beverages
Recipe Attribution
Wikibooks Cookbook
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Printed on October 25, 2026