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A friend requested I brew him a beer. Everything was to be "about normal" - aroma, bitterness, maltiness - apart from a chestnut colour, and about 5% strength (normal :) ). This was until I showed him a list of malts and he went mad for the biscuit one! So, here's the partial extract recipe I whipped up:
20L final length
1 kg Light dry extract
500g Medium dry extract
1.5kg Amber liquid extract (mm!)
1 kg Biscuit malt
100g Wheat malt
70g Chocolate malt
60 minutes mash at 67 (cooled down to about 60 over the mash though, I have no tun)
60 minutes hard, vigourous boil;
40g Fuggles at 60
1tsp Irish moss at 10
20g Fuggles at 5
Fermentation started with a 2-pack 100ml starter of Danstar Nottingham, OG 1049 (Beer smith said 1053, I attribute the difference to the mash temp drop - should've perhaps shortened the beer a bit and not added so much water for the boil, but it's only 4 points off).
It dragged on until 2.30am. This serves me right for starting at 11pm. Lunacy.
This morning there's a big bulging lid on the ferm bucket, loads of foam and it's looking great!
These seem to be getting easier and easier, it's like riding a bike. When the readies turn up, I'm going to get that 10 gal AG set :party:
20L final length
1 kg Light dry extract
500g Medium dry extract
1.5kg Amber liquid extract (mm!)
1 kg Biscuit malt
100g Wheat malt
70g Chocolate malt
60 minutes mash at 67 (cooled down to about 60 over the mash though, I have no tun)
60 minutes hard, vigourous boil;
40g Fuggles at 60
1tsp Irish moss at 10
20g Fuggles at 5
Fermentation started with a 2-pack 100ml starter of Danstar Nottingham, OG 1049 (Beer smith said 1053, I attribute the difference to the mash temp drop - should've perhaps shortened the beer a bit and not added so much water for the boil, but it's only 4 points off).
It dragged on until 2.30am. This serves me right for starting at 11pm. Lunacy.
This morning there's a big bulging lid on the ferm bucket, loads of foam and it's looking great!
These seem to be getting easier and easier, it's like riding a bike. When the readies turn up, I'm going to get that 10 gal AG set :party: