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Posted: **Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:07 pm**

Today i brewed Bramling Beauty. After looking around at different recipes, this one caught my eye, for the use of Amber malt and of course just Bramling hops

I had 500g of Amber and wondered what the flavour was like, so in 5-6 weeks i will find out

Anyway the brewday went fine, except i will have to adjust my boil loss percentage on the batch spage calculator as i come up short by 4ltrs (or reduce the setting on my element as the boil my be to fierce) i collected 18ltrs at 1.060 and topped up with 4ltrs of treated water to bring me to the desired 1.051 SG. Then added my 1ltr starter

So on with the recipe and of course photos

Water Treatment from Grahams calculator
CRS 60ml for 40ltrs
1.0gm Calcium Chloride (added to Grist)

23ltrs @ 1.051
4.30kg Maris Otter Pale Malt
280gms Amber Malt
240gms Flaked Barley
240gms Torriefied Wheat

Hops
19gms Bramling Cross (5.1 AA) 90mins
60gms Bramling Cross (5.1 AA) 15Mins
22 Gms Bramling Cross (5.1 AA) 1Min

Yeast
Crouch Valve Brewery

The Grist

About to "Dough in"

Mash PH 5.2 on the nose

Batch Sparge first runnings

Running off into boiler

The Hot Break

The Brewery Cat makes an inspection

Cooling You can see how low the wort is in the boiler

Run off to fermenter

1.051

Yeasties about to go in!

Posted: **Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:15 pm**

Looks good, you should notice a good dunt of Bramling flavour with the 15 minute hop addition. I've got a vacuum pack of them waiting to be used in something like this.

Amber malt, to me, has a toasted sesame seed type of flavour to it.

Posted: **Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:36 pm**

mysterio wrote:Looks good, you should notice a good dunt of Bramling flavour with the 15 minute hop addition. I've got a vacuum pack of them waiting to be used in something like this.

Amber malt, to me, has a toasted sesame seed type of flavour to it.

It was this recipe that got me to brew this one, as the reponses were very good

DRB's Recipe

Posted: **Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:40 pm**

Looks like a great day.

Love the photos!

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:04 am**

Good work S and great pics

I love amber malt and recently did a brew which had a large %age in it....like liquid digestives

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:21 am**

Sounds like a winner!

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:12 am**

Very nice

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:12 am**

Nice One & great snaps!

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:18 am**

Great set of pictures. Looks like you had a good day

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:49 am**

A great recipe, and by the looks of it a great day as well.
This is a great recipe to discover the joys of amber and BX

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:10 am**

Nice photo brewday - love all those Bramling hops.

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:00 pm**

Good choice. This was one of my favourite brews last year. Hope it goes well

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:12 pm**

Matt wrote:Good choice. This was one of my favourite brews last year. Hope it goes well

It was your review that got me thinking about brewing this one

15 hours in to ferment

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:23 pm**

I found the Amber Malt gave a strange oily/charcoaly taste to the beer in its green state, but it mellows out quickly to a real nice pint.

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:58 pm**

Looks kike my kind of beer. Great photo's