Help from our Scottish friends.

[dennisking]

I have been given a sample of WLP028 Scottish yeast, courtesy of Alistair [Graysalcemy] of this parish, so to give the yeast the respect it deserves I was thinking of brewing a wee heavy. I've only ever drank a heavy on my one and only trip to Scotland many years ago, can't remember much about it apart from the fact I real liked it. So I am after some recipe ideas please.

 

[BigYin]

Look in any of the main brewing books for an 80/- recipe :thumb:

 

[BigYin]

There's a couple of 80/- recipes in Marc Olloson's excellent set of recipes, and I'd maybe also consider trying the St Andrews Ale :thumb:

 

[dennisking]

Cheers for that Mick, will dig the book out.

 

[graysalchemy]

My traquiar house clone is really simple but tastes wonderful. It is basically 99% pale malt and 1% roasted barley to 1072 . It was hopped with equal quantities of Goldings at 90 min and 45min to 37IBU. Finally you need to caramelise about 20% of the wort ie first runnings and reduce that down by about 75% so in a 5 gallon brew length you need to take the first gallon and caramelise it down to 2 pints. it needs to properly caramelise by vigerously boiling it for about an hour.

Now for any northerners or those who like a thick creamy head on your beer (not you Dennis) you could replace 8% of the pale malt with 4% wheat malt and 4% rollled porridge oats. You will also need to do a glucan rest as well.

 

[dennisking]

99% black malt :shock: guess you mean pale, sounds a very interesting beer but 1072 is a tad above my usual, just put it in the beer engine 7272gms of pale malt, don't think my mash tun is big enough.

PS we don't mind a bit of head down south as well.

 

[graysalchemy]

Yes I did mean pale malt I will change that.

You could go for a lower gravity but part of its charm is the alcohol :whistle: perhaps try for something in the 1060 region, it actually fermented down quite well. Ii also used crisps MO malt and did an an over night mash which pushed up the OG to over 1080

Yet to try a bottle but early tastings were very promising, the caramilising is the key to this beer. :thumb:

 

[dennisking]

I've caramelised a few times, love the smell when it gets gooey.

 

[graysalchemy]

Beer Toffee :lol: :lol:

 

[Good Ed]

Dennis, I'll pm you a recipe from John Alexander's book

 

[dennisking]

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