Black Sheep Riggwelter

[tomU]

RIGGWELTER Black Sheep Brewery Masham.

25 litre batch OG 1056 ABV5.9% 60 units of colour 39 EBU

MARIS OTTER PALE MALT 4553 gms
CRYSTAL MALT 365 gms
CHOCOLATE MALT 600 gms
TORRIFIED WHEAT 544 gms
ROAST BARLEY 1gm

HOPS Boil time 90 minutes.

FUGGLES 26 gms
PROGRESS 27 gms
CHALLENGER 27 gms
Add 10 gms GOLDINGS last fifteen minutes.

Yeast of your choice.

Planning to do this one from Norm's almanac tomorrow. Is the 1g roast barley right? Is it going to make a difference?

[Stonechat]

The question has been asked on Jim's before and IIRC no one came up with a sure-fire answer. However, against the quantities of the other grains I don't see it making any difference.

[tomU]

Hmm, I'm not sure whether to up it to a noticeable amount or drop it completely...

[boingy]

1 gram is pointless imo

My almanac (4th Ed, 1995) does not list Riggwelter but shows both Black Sheep Best Bitter and Black Sheep Special Bitter as having 0.005% "roast malt extract" so I suspect this is where it came from.

Forget that gram. The choc malt will drown it in any case.

[nofe4r]

I know I am probably a bit late but you may want to look at this post

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14784&p=178273&hili ... er#p178273

I adjusted the recipe as the one posted had some errors. The final brew was almost spot on in comparison to a shop bought bottle.

[tomU]

Cheers for that - it was too late, but due to having less chocolate than I thought I didnt quite follow the recipe anyway. It still seems way darker than the real thing though...

Read this comment from Stonechat in your brewday thread:

It's not the first time that 1g of Roast Barley has come up on Jim's and I reckon it won't be the last

Not wrong