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Gonna get a Scottish Heavy 70/- on the go tonight.


3.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain 80.6 %
0.40 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (30.0 SRM) Grain 10.8 %
0.20 kg Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 5.4 %
0.05 kg Amber Malt (22.0 SRM) Grain 1.3 %
0.05 kg Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 1.3 %
0.02 kg Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) Grain 0.5 %
15.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [8.00%] (90 min) Hops 15.4 IBU
15.00 gm Fuggles [5.00%] (90 min) Hops 9.6 IBU
1 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) Yeast-Ale

Work out at around 3.6% - 1.038 end on 1.010 or thereabouts.

Pics to follow.

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Okay all finished...went well

Seems like my images are always the same, hope you like them anyway.



After the mash



Yes I did clean the elements



First wort hops



Boiled for 90mins



Nice colour



Collected 5 gallons at around 1.038 - 1.040 which us what I was looking for. Also rehydrate the Nottingham yeast first and added.

Temp currently at 16-18 degrees, going to try and ferment a bit lower for this one.

This seems to be my cheapest brew yet, working out at £7.50 making it around 19p a pint.

Looks tasty, Chris. Is a Scottish Heavy like a Mild?

Brewing images always look the same but everyone still likes to see them.

Hogarth wrote:Looks tasty, Chris. Is a Scottish Heavy like a Mild?

Not really. Heavy is more like if you took the toffeeish flavour and colour of a best bitter and made a beer of the strength of an ordinary bitter and the hoppiness of a mild

Very nice. Looks like a smooth brewday.

Good work!

Looking good! Can't beat a pint of heavy!

If you can find a real one! I can't think of a cask-conditioned 70/– that's regularly available in any of the pubs I frequent. Hence if you order a pint of heavy in most pubs you'll get something fizzy, freezing cold and tasting mostly of boiled sugar and metal.

Invalid Stout wrote:

Hogarth wrote:Looks tasty, Chris. Is a Scottish Heavy like a Mild?

Not really. Heavy is more like if you took the toffeeish flavour and colour of a best bitter and made a beer of the strength of an ordinary bitter and the hoppiness of a mild

Mmm, sounds like my sort of beer. Can you get it in bottles?

Invalid Stout wrote:If you can find a real one! I can't think of a cask-conditioned 70/– that's regularly available in any of the pubs I frequent. Hence if you order a pint of heavy in most pubs you'll get something fizzy, freezing cold and tasting mostly of boiled sugar and metal.

Good point, I make my own which i'm quite pleased with, based off one of Wheelers recipes, modified with home made amber malt and White Labs Edinburgh yeast.

Decided to bottle and barrel this tonight at 1.010 which makes this a 3.8% beer.

Just what I was wanting.

Tastes good and its a great colour.

Heres a few more photos.













How long do you think a 3.8% brew should condition for?

Tennent's and McEwan's condition theirs for an hour and a half!

Invalid Stout wrote:Tennent's and McEwan's condition theirs for an hour and a half!

Speaking of Tennents, wonder whats in it? I used to drink it before I started Home Brewing.

ChrisG wrote:Speaking of Tennents, wonder whats in it? I used to drink it before I started Home Brewing.

But do you still with beer like that on tap?

ChrisG wrote:

Invalid Stout wrote:Tennent's and McEwan's condition theirs for an hour and a half!

Speaking of Tennents, wonder whats in it? I used to drink it before I started Home Brewing.

Lager malt, wheat, water, lager yeast. There may be some other chemicals in there but thats the core. There's probably a lot of truth in what Invalid Stout is saying, I doubt Tennents stays in the brewery for much more than 7 days from brewday before it leaves the building. Probably quickly fermented, crash chilled then filtered, then packaged.

Also i would not be surprised if there was some rice/maize or sugar in there

It's not on the listed ingredients on the can, It's low gravity/alcohol enough to taste light and watery without any adjunct, 4% abv i think.

Oh yeah some form of hops too, a dash of extracted alpha acids probably

Just checked out their website, not one piece of information about the actual beer! Or even a passing reference to it for that matter

http://www.tennents.com/index.php

And yet i'm still craving a nice cold can of Tennents