Scottish Wee Heavy - I think!

[dennisdk2000]

I have been looking at this recipe for my Christmas brew this year:

Brew length: 4.5L

1200g Golden Promise
220g Peated malt
165g Melanoidin malt
165g Crystal 60 EBC
55g Cara-Pils
20g Roasted barley

60min mash at 67 Celcius; mash water ratio: 2.2L/kg

75min boil

3.5g East Kent Goldings (AA: 5.0%) for 60min
3.5g East Kent Goldings (AA: 5.0%) for 45min
3g Brambling Cross (AA: 7.3%) for 30min
2g WGV (AA: 5.4%) for 5min

Yeast: Wyeast 1728 Scottish Yeast

I might make a few adjustments:
Change the Peated malt for aromatic (same quantity) - don't really fancy it in there, and I believe it's a bit of a new invention to add it (the recipe comes to me via America - those Yanks, eh?!)
Change the yeast to White labs WLP028 Edinburgh Scottish Ale Yeast or Danstar Windsor Beer Yeast - has anyone got experience with these yeasts?

What do you think? Any adjustments you would/wouldn't make? Does this sound right for a Wee Heavy, or miles off?

As my personal twist, and to turn it into a Christmas brew, I think I'll add some liquorice extract - but that's a different story all together! I think I might just do a brew without liquorice as a dry-run of sorts.

All feed-back is much appreciated!

Dennis

 

[BigYin]

I've used the Windsor yeast - it's fine - although I prefer the Nottingham yeast personally..

 

[dennisdk2000]

Cheers - I've used Nottingham and like it, but thought the sweeter, maltier profile that Windsor is meant to give, will be good here?

Dennis

 

[Andyhull]

Hi there,

Excuse my ignorance and please don't take offence, but whats the point in brewing just 9 bottles of beer?
It seems alot of hastle to get everything set up to do just 4.5ltr or am i missing something, like is this just a test sample?

Andy

 

[dennisdk2000]

Nope, not missing anything - and yes, it is a lot of work for a few bottles of beer. I enjoy brewing, but I don't have the space for a bigger set-up. A lot of people find my mini-batches a bit peculiar, but I brew for me.

Dennis