Rich and Dave's Old Speckled Hen Challenge

[BrotherMalice]

I dont think I have missed it, but if I have Sorry!

When is the Golden Syrup added?

 

[Dave1970]

I did it with 5 mins to go in the boil, just enough for the movement of the boil to get it well mixed in

 

[BrotherMalice]

cheers for that, out of interest, do either of you use brewmate brewing software?

 

[Dave1970]

I do, Rich doesn't

 

[rich27500]

Erm Dave...I do but not always...

 

[Dave1970]

oh sorry, I thought I remembered you saying you preferred an 'art' approach

 

[BrotherMalice]

do either of you have the recipie in brew mate, I cant get it to go in for some reason?

 

[Dave1970]

I do, if you pm me an e-mail address I'll send you the file.

The only problem is there was no Golden Syrup in brewmate so I put it in as Candi Sugar, they're both inverted sugar so should be ok...didn't seem to have much effect, it came out close to expected gravity etc.

 

[rich27500]

There is in mine I put it in for this weekends squeaky mouse

 

[TRXnMe]

I was going to go for Old Spectacled Ken but it turns out that neither Ken Dodd, Ken Livingstone or Ken Russell are ever photographed wearing glasses...some sort of conspiracy :wha:

A little bit late, but if you brew it again it'll keep the kids off it

An old speckled Ken :)

 

[rickthebrew]

Just bottled my second batch of this and it is tasting lovely - had to sub the northen brewer hops for challenger due to lack of supplies and as I had only medium crystal I also added 30grams of black malt (46litre brew) for the colour and this has worked a treat - I have been using yeast recovered from a bottle dartmoor brewery`s friggin ale!

http://www.dartmoorbrewery.co.uk/

Works really well giving a lovely fruity pint superb :

 

[rich27500]

: lovely to see this has got so big!

 

[olriley]

I am delving regularly into my batch now and it is really tasting superb, apart from the over-priming issue which was totally my own fault. I will definitely brew this again quite soon.

 

[BrotherMalice]

I have finally got mine on the go today as well :)