Maine Homebrewer
Grandmaster Brewer
I just put this one in a glass and it's quite tasty.
The wife says "Very pleasant, tastes like molasses without the sugar", and she doesn't like beer.
I put the recipe together based upon general guidelines from 'Great Beers of the World' by Laurie Strachan, and ingredients on hand.
9# Pale
.75# Crystal
2.5oz Chocolate Malt
2.5oz Black Patent Malt
Strike water 170, stabilized 145, mashed for 90 min, mashed out decoction style.
Dumped a couple gallons into my double-bucket lauder tun, recirculated a few times, then sparged very slowly (most of an hour) with 190 degree (and cooling) water to (guessing) 7.5 gallons.
1.75oz Challenger hops (8% alpha) for full 60 min boil, no flavor or aroma hops, Irish moss last 10, boiled down to 5.5.
Chilled to 85, pitched Wyeast London Ale 1028.
SG 1.051 (1.048 @ 85) 8/10/08
Racked 8/24/08
FG 1.008 10/04/08
The wife says "Very pleasant, tastes like molasses without the sugar", and she doesn't like beer.
I put the recipe together based upon general guidelines from 'Great Beers of the World' by Laurie Strachan, and ingredients on hand.
9# Pale
.75# Crystal
2.5oz Chocolate Malt
2.5oz Black Patent Malt
Strike water 170, stabilized 145, mashed for 90 min, mashed out decoction style.
Dumped a couple gallons into my double-bucket lauder tun, recirculated a few times, then sparged very slowly (most of an hour) with 190 degree (and cooling) water to (guessing) 7.5 gallons.
1.75oz Challenger hops (8% alpha) for full 60 min boil, no flavor or aroma hops, Irish moss last 10, boiled down to 5.5.
Chilled to 85, pitched Wyeast London Ale 1028.
SG 1.051 (1.048 @ 85) 8/10/08
Racked 8/24/08
FG 1.008 10/04/08