found this All-Grain - Caffrey's Irish Ale clone

[Titch]

found this on another forum

Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: Wyeast London Ale 1028
Yeast Starter: Yes
Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5
Original Gravity: 1.047
Final Gravity: 1.011
IBU: 27.1
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 2 weeks @ 65-72
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 4-6 weeks @ 65-72
Tasting Notes: Smooth creamy caramel flavor.

This is my first recipe which I have posted on this forum. Caffrey's was one of my favorite beers in the UK before I moved to the USA. Unfortunately Coors bought the brewery which makes Caffrey's and canceled export to the USA a few years back.

This beer is kind of a hybrid. On CO2 it is a basic English bitter. But add your Nitrogen (beer gas) and you have your creamy tasting Irish ale.

If you have a stout faucet and looking for something lighter than a regular stout I recommend this. I have not had a real Caffrey's for several years, so can not comment on the taste compared to the original, but believe it is pretty similar.

It is very smooth and has a creamy caramel flavor. There is also some fruitiness from the 1028 yeast used.

Ingredients
9lb 8oz Maris Otter
7oz Crystal 60L
3oz Torrified Wheat
2oz Chocolate Malt

0.75oz Northern Brewer 9.7% - 60 mins
0.25oz East Kent Goldings 6.5% - 60 mins

1 Pkgs London Ale (Wyeast 1028)

Mash for 60 mins at 153

Boil for 60 mins

says i NEED nitrogen?

surely i could bottle?

advise please

 

[phettebs]

Looks like a nice ale! I will copy this one down.

I would say bottling or kegging it would be fine. You certainly don't NEED beer gas.

 

[snail59]

Nitrogen in the gas mix is what gives it it's tight creamy head (or so im lead to believe). I have found when I pour a home brewed bottled beer if I knock it back with a pocket beer engine it produces a tighter head on my Bitters. So you could just try doing that.