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Notlaw
Dubbel Dragon
Isn't "absolutely minimised" an oxymoron, like "pretty ugly" or "deafening silence" or "military intelligence"? :lol:
You've just had me rolling around the floor laughing at the thought of Steve being "sensitive"!
I appreciate that you are thinking "sensitive" in the coeliac sense (which he is) but this is the man who opened his door to find a man he didn't recognise standing on his doorstep.
"Can I help you?" Steve asked.
"Are you Steve **** ?" asked the man.
"Yes." said Steve.
"You are a *******!" said the man "I will teach you to have sex with my wife!" and proceeded to attack Steve with some vigour.
Defending himself valiantly Steve managed to ask "Which one is your wife?"
The man stopped dead as he thought of the ramifications of this question.
"How many are there?" he asked.
"Depends on where we are talking about. In the village three but if you go out of the village then over a dozen. Where are you from?"
The man shook his head as if Steve had hit him with a hammer so Steve carried on with "I hope you appreciate that it takes two people to have an affair, so I suggest that you go home and talk to your wife!" The man walked away shaking his head and sobbing.
Steve later told me "I almost asked him not to upset his wife by telling her about the other women but I though better of it." :lol: :lol:
Sensitive he ain't!! :thumb: :thumb:
Whers's this recipe from by the way ?
HebridesRob
Landlord.
I made it up myself after reading up on the beer style.
johnnyboy1965
Landlord.
All hops are named after Roman Gods
HebridesRob
Landlord.
What was Fuggles the god of? Ugly people?
HebridesRob
Landlord.
I'm quite interested in brewing history so I did some research on what kind of hopped beer was available when Chaucer was alive, the recipe "progressed" from there. It was intended as a bit of a joke really but I'm quite interested in it now.
The style calls for malted oat/wheat/barley in the ratio 3:2:1. It seems there will be a fair amount of haze. The malts were chosen to get the right colour but the software I use consistently turns out beer that is darker than I expected so, if you actually made this, you might like to change that. The hop bill is more or less arbitrary, I expected you would alter it to something you're more used to in terms of how much, when you add the late hops and whether you flame out hop and/or dry hop. The style should be a lot less IBU but I didn't think there was much point in that, given the hops were the reason for making it in the first place.
Using a lot of oats can lead to stuck mashes, so if you made it and intended to fly sparge, rather than batch sparge, you might like to look into giving the mash a beta-glucanase rest.
Something I omitted from my recipe is the brewhouse efficiency is 80%, again, if you did make this beer you might want to take that into account.
I'm probably going to swap the vienna for biscuit as I already have some of that. I'm also thinking of just using pilgrim and then doing a different Pilgrim Progress later.
HebridesRob
Landlord.
:thumb:
Please report back. It'll be a while before I'm out of stock and need to re-order, postage is too expensive for ad-hoc ordering.
cheapbrew
Junk and disorderly
Being a manager at our local watermill, I write an article about our activities at the mill for the local parish magazine titled the Millers tale, a name suggested by the editor when I didn't title my first article, after reading this thread with its Chaucer comments I looked it up for the first time and I now realise why people have commented that they were surprised it was about the mill 
Being a manager at our local watermill, I write an article about our activities at the mill for the local parish magazine titled the Millers tale, a name suggested by the editor when I didn't title my first article, after reading this thread with its Chaucer comments I looked it up for the first time and I now realise why people have commented that they were surprised it was about the mill
Ok. So I've bought Pilgrims Progress, Canterbury Tales, 4kg of 'crushed' oats, 2kg of medium wheat, and some biscuit malt. I put the quotes around the word crushed above as it is more like bruised than crushed. Apparently oats are a pain to crush. Wonder what the mash efficiency is going to be like.
MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
Am I missing something here? You're using oats instead of base malt?
Read this:
Brewday:
http://ryanbrews.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/100-oat-malt-mt-rainier-hops-smash-beer.html?m=1
Review:
http://ryanbrews.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/100-oat-malt-mt-rainier-hops-smash-beer.html?m=1
80% efficiency apparently with 100% oat malt.
MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
Didn't know you could brew with so much
It's malted oats. Not just oats.
MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
I realize that but the brupaks grain guide, which I usually use as my quick reference go to, says you can only use a maximum of 5%. Which is obviously wrong going by the links you've posted
What's right and wrong? If you're an anarchist? :twisted:
The guy made that beer to see what happened, by the look of it, and said it was a bit odd but he liked it.
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