Yesterday I did the "Winter Warmer" recipe from the Greg Hughes book.
Anyone done this? I won't post the recipe cause it's in the book, but it's a typical strong british ale with addition of 100g of chocolate malt and 500g of honey.
the recipe calls for goldings/progress/target, but I did it with goldings/fuggles/more goldings cause that was what I could get.
I plan to spice it, as per suggestion in book with some cinnamon and fresh ginger.
For some reason my calculations on the boiloff were not right and instead of 21 L i ended up with 24 or something. more than I safely wanted to put into my FV anyhow. my gravity was also lower than anticipated, at 1054 instead of 1062, at least partly due to increased volume I guess. I had some DME left over from another brew, so put that it to bump it up to 1058. It's annoying as so far all my AG beers have been bang on my targets.....weird.
maybe I got a bit too cocky and made a mistake in calculations.
anyhow, hoping this will be spot on for Xmas!
Anyone done this? I won't post the recipe cause it's in the book, but it's a typical strong british ale with addition of 100g of chocolate malt and 500g of honey.
the recipe calls for goldings/progress/target, but I did it with goldings/fuggles/more goldings cause that was what I could get.
I plan to spice it, as per suggestion in book with some cinnamon and fresh ginger.
For some reason my calculations on the boiloff were not right and instead of 21 L i ended up with 24 or something. more than I safely wanted to put into my FV anyhow. my gravity was also lower than anticipated, at 1054 instead of 1062, at least partly due to increased volume I guess. I had some DME left over from another brew, so put that it to bump it up to 1058. It's annoying as so far all my AG beers have been bang on my targets.....weird.
maybe I got a bit too cocky and made a mistake in calculations.
anyhow, hoping this will be spot on for Xmas!
