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The recipe for this scottish 80/- was adapted by myself from a recipe in a well known book. ended up being a bit higher on the O.G than planned and a litre short on the brew length so i hope with the extra strength its still classed as an 80/-.

Scottish 80/-


23 litres

4100 g pale malt
215 g crystal malt
125 g wheat malt
30 g chocolate malt
20 g black malt

24 g fuggle - 6 %AA - 90 min
24 g golding - 6.1 %AA - 90 min
18 g golding - 10 min

safale S - 04 yeast

Mashed @ 68 c ( a little high)

EBU - 36
EBC - 37
Efficiency 80%
Predicted O.G 1.047
Measured O.G - 1.050



The grain



The hops



First of three batch sparges



First runnings



Rolling boil begins so in go the hops



Cold break



All tucked up. Collected 22 litres @ 1.050 in the end. I was gonna dilute it to get down to 1.047 but decided not to in the end

looked at 'the book' this morning and this one caught my eye.
another one for the list to do! looks tasty that one.

enjoy!

yer hopefully it will turn out tasty.

its been going crazy in the f.v. that S-04 is powerful stuff!

S04 is a monster

I think i've brewed that recipe, or something similar. It's a good'un. Good luck with it.