80/- recipe for Christmas beer

[leedsbrew]

So I'm thinking of a couple of beers to brew now and be ready for Christmas. One of these ideas is a nice 80/- for cold weather malty goodness.

So far I have

20L

OG 1.052
FG 1.015
ABV 4.9%
IBU 28
Colour 15.7 SRM


Fermentables

Golden Promise 3.587 kg 76.6 %
UK Amber Malt 0.456 kg 9.7 %
UK Light Crystal 0.268 kg 5.7 %
UK Torrified Wheat 0.225 kg 4.8 %
UK Pale Chocolate Malt 0.097 kg 2.1 %
UK Roasted Barley 0.050 kg 1.1 %


Hops

UK Golding 34 g 21.8 IBUs All Of Boil
UK Golding 21 g 6.5 IBUs 15 Min From End



Yeast
Wyeast 1728-Scottish Ale / orWLP 028 Edinburgh yeast

Having never brewed one before just wondering on peoples thoughts from experience. Also which yeast would folk recommend?

cheers


LB

[lord.president]

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[lord.president]

I made the above recipe,boiled down the first gallon by about 3/4. Used WYeast Scottish ale. Fantastic stuff.

[Rookie]

I made the above recipe,boiled down the first gallon by about 3/4. Used WYeast Scottish ale. Fantastic stuff.

I've used White Labs and Wyeast scottish yeast and much prefer the Wyeast.

[Hanglow]

I made one based on the latter day Maclays recipe, was a decent pint

OG 1.040

90% Pale malt
5% crystal 80
5% torrified wheat

All hops at start of boil
30 IBUS from goldings/brewers gold

Yeast - your choice of british yeast, not too attenuative though.


I want to do one based on the older recipe to compare.

80% pale
12% flaked maize
8% invert

similar hopping

E150 for colour

[leedsbrew]

nice and simple those ones! Did you mash high for added body?

[mysterio]

Right on! Amber malt really makes this style I think. It's all about the 'toast' malt flavour. Malty goodness indeed! Scottish ale works well but any English yeast is good. Old faithful WLP002 works well. Boil down those first runnings.

[Hanglow]

nice and simple those ones! Did you mash high for added body?

I think I aimed for about 67C. I've not done the second recipe, don't know how it would turn out