Brew No. 6 - Cadbury's Real Ale Egg
Beer is my favourite type of liquid, and Cadbury's Creme Eggs are my favourite solid. It seemed more than natural to make an effort to combine the two, inspired by Charlie Brooker's funny chocolate rant.
The beer will be a dark, malty, chocolatey affair with a light smattering of First Gold hops which are said to have a light orange flavour. Hopefully these should complement the 180g of Cadbury's Creme Egg fondant centers that will be added to the end of the boil.
Goal (according to Beer Engine)
15L
EBC - 127
EBU - 37
OG - 1.050
FG - 1.011
ABV - 5.0%
Ingredients
2700g Pale Malt
210g Chocolate Malt
70g Torrefied Wheat
70g Dark Crystal Malt
180g Cadbury's Creme Egg fondant centers
20g First Gold (90 mins) (9.1%)
10g First Gold (15 mins)
28L East Riding of Yorkshire tap water, +1x campden tablet. pH = 7.4, TDS PPM = 345.
Label
NOTE: I've purposely blurred out the Cadbury's logo here so I don't get in trouble
Yeast harvesting
I want this to be a malty brew, so I decided to use the yeast from Fuller's 1845 - a particularly malty brew itself.
after 24 hrs:
after 2-3 days:
poured off the beer and washed the yeasties, ready to go!:
Marris Otter pale
the grist
The mash temperature log
Not as well controlled as previous brews (e.g. The Great GatsBeer)
Black line = mash temp
Blue line = oven temp
First runnings
First Gold Hops to go in
Boiling
Harvesting the Creme Egg centers
WARNING! - NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED!
In they gooo.
Cooling
Final Gravity / Brix readings
Ended up with 12.7 Brix, which is 1.051. 15L wort collected. Looks like I'm just slightly over 75% efficiency batch sparging.
In with the Fuller's yeast
In the primary
All in all, a good brew day! In all honesty, I'm not really optimistic about the beer having a Creme Egg flavour! I just though it'd be fun
Fuller's yeast look to be amazing, very very flocculant, and an amazing aroma coming from the primary. Hear rumors of it being quite buttery, so leaving in the primary for a good couple of weeks.
