grolsch help please

[trickybrew]

Hi all
Well i have about 10 ale brew under my belt now and im happy with the ale im brewing, but im after brewing grolsch larger can any one please help with the recipe for this, as well a step by step brewing from start to finish, im shore i read some where you don't have to steep this ? and as im in the UK the grain, hops, and yeast what best to use, im asking a lot i no but any help is appreciated.
Thanks Tricky

 

[unclepumble]

Hi all
Well i have about 10 ale brew under my belt now and im happy with the ale im brewing, but im after brewing grolsch larger can any one please help with the recipe for this, as well a step by step brewing from start to finish, im shore i read some where you don't have to steep this ? and as im in the UK the grain, hops, and yeast what best to use, im asking a lot i no but any help is appreciated.
Thanks Tricky

You are going to struggle to get it right as the yeast strain is unique to grolsch and not available, outside grolsch or its brewing partners & that's the secret to it's flavour profile.

Its an all grain recipe no sugar and a long ferment, but even if you had the recipe you would not get the flavour spot on.

I can't tell u any more though i'm sorry.

UP

 

[Friday]

Danish lager yeast would be as close as you can get.

There is a recipe that's pretty close in the book Clone Brews by Tess Szamatulski and Mark Szamatulski. A friend of mine brewed it and it wasn't exact but nothing ever is.

Now what I would do is drink 4 really good porters and wait about a hour....

 

[trickybrew]

oh well, thats a shame, thanks for your help
:hmm:

 

[phettebs]

FYI, here's the recipe from the book (taken from another website and not directly from the book as I don't have it) :

AG Grolsch Clone
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4 oz 2.5L german light crystal malt
2 oz german munich malt
10.25lbs german 2 row pilsner malt
1 oz northern brewer bittering 30 min
.25oz german Hallertau hersbrucker flavor
1 teaspoon irish moss in boil for 15 min then add
.50oz Czech Saaz for 10 min then cool

yeast 1choice Danish lager #2042
second choice is Danish lager 2 #2247

Mash all grains for 90 min at 150 f
bitter 90 min. flavor and irish moss for 15 min. second flavor for last 10 min

Have not brewed it myself. Just posted for reference sake.

Barry

 

[unclepumble]

FYI, here's the recipe from the book (taken from another website and not directly from the book as I don't have it) :

AG Grolsch Clone
-----------------
4 oz 2.5L german light crystal malt
2 oz german munich malt
10.25lbs german 2 row pilsner malt
1 oz northern brewer bittering 30 min
.25oz german Hallertau hersbrucker flavor
1 teaspoon irish moss in boil for 15 min then add
.50oz Czech Saaz for 10 min then cool

yeast 1choice Danish lager #2042
second choice is Danish lager 2 #2247

Mash all grains for 90 min at 150 f
bitter 90 min. flavor and irish moss for 15 min. second flavor for last 10 min

Have not brewed it myself. Just posted for reference sake.

Barry

Its way off the commercial recipe, for Grolsch but should make a decent lager.

UP

 

[phettebs]

I've not heard good things about the clone books doing well on their recipes. This may be one of those. :-)

 

[Friday]

I've not heard good things about the clone books doing well on their recipes. This may be one of those. :-)

It depends on who's doing the brewing. Just because I have a recipe for apple pie doesn't mean I can bake one.

 

[phettebs]

I should have clarified. My point was not that these clone book recipes or the people brewing them produce bad beer. It was that the recipes themselves often miss the mark of the beer they are intended to clone.