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Mild Ale Something easy drinking to fill a Cornie with That will have a bit of flavour longevity unlike the smaller hop-flavour-window of APAs etc

Fermentables:
Pale Malt 2940g - 75%
Caramalt 585g - 15%
Chocolate Wheat Malt 195g - 5%
Flaked Oats 195g - 5%

Hops:
Golding @ 60 mins - 20g
Fuggle @ 60 mins - 20g
Golding @ 10 mins - 13g
Fuggle @ 10 mins - 20g

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.039
Final Gravity: 1.011
Alcohol Content: 3.6% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.2 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.8 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 23 EBU
Colour: 65 EBC

Mash was supposed to be 69c but try as I might after mashing with some boiling water I only hit 67c, even after doing a better pre-heat of the mash Tun than usual. I think the Bucket of malt must have been colder at the bottom than the top when I took the temp! (Malt 16.2c, Aimed for 69c Mash, Strike heat of 77.4c). It will be a 90minute Mash stand at least, maybe 2 hours as I have to be a Taxi this morning too.
The Chocolate Wheat Malt in the recipe was from Hop&Grape, I also have some Roasted Wheat Malt from BarleyBottom... weirdly the Chocolate is loads darker than the Roasted, kind of Black vs Mid-Brown type of thing!
32L of Liquor salts added to the malts prior to mashing, done to the 'Mild' profile in the GW Calc.

Yeast, maybe Windsor or maybe Nottingham.

Malts and temp:

Calcium Chloride & Magnesium Sulphate in the Pestle & Morter:

Missed my desired Mash Temp by 2c! Should be 69c:

First Wort Hops (FWH) and a handful of old lager yeast as Nutrient:

Brewers Breakfast:

First Runnings:

IC in and 10min hops just in:

1044 I'd say though the Refractometer worked out at 1046:

Went for Nottingham yeast in the end, I'll save the Windsor for another brew
Yeast Action the morning after:

Looks tasty, I just dont know if I could bring myself to go below 4% abv
Been looking at mild recipe's lately and a strong mild appeals to me.

Allways with the pic's, I do like to spy on other brewdays, keep it up man.

I seem to have hit about 1042 so its going to be nearer 4%

See even your gear dont want to make weak beer

Lazy day... does someone want to come and clean up for me?

Looks like this has finished at about 1010/1008, will be going in a Cornie tomorrow I think.

Not sure about the bacon and mushroom addition

Maybe worth trying big amounts of Munich and Mild next time if you're looking for a higher TG. I found it alot less fermentable than Pale. Think I used WLP-002.

looks well tasty that matey!

Just racked this into a cornie, cleared brilliantly in the FV, hit it with 50psi or so and will leave it to it.
just a handful of bottled primed with 1/2Tsp sugar

Just having a glass of this now, light bodied, easy drinking, malty with a slight liquorice finish, smooth, bit of fruitiness from the hops, slight dry edge from the Chocolate Wheat malt.
I'm happy, cornie full of it... brilliant! Another low-ish alcohol beer I'd go for the Windsor next time or try and hit that 69c Mash.
Could easily double the Flaked Oats, maybe add a bit of Munich and it'll be a belter next time

Yum.

I had the same thing with chocolate malt too - I ordered some Dark Chocolate malt and some black malt - the choc was darker!


Which is which by The Grice is Right, on Flickr

weird...
T'is you on Tw@ter then

The Mrs forced me to Tw@tr, I don't use it for 'me' just the beer

How's this sound for version 2???

Looks Good!



Guy