caledonian 80/-

[DRB]

A superbly balanced golden heavy,80 shilling is from the caledonian brewery in Edinburgh.Full malt in the mouth,deep,dry hop finish with chocolate notes.
Pale malt - 3600g (65%)
crystal malt - 750g (15%)
amber malt - 500g (10%)
chocolate malt - 250g (5%)
wheat malt - 250g (5%)

fuggle - 50g start of boil
goldings - 42g start of boil

goldings - 7g last 15 min
recipe by graham wheeler and roger protz
mash liquor 12lt
mash temp 65
alc content 4.3%
og 1043
final gravity 1011
bitterness 36 ebu
final volume 23lt

[mysterio]

Caley 80 is a nice pint. I've got this recipe in Wheeler's book, might give it a go.

[bitter_dave]

I had a fantastic pint of this when I was last in edinburgh

[Kev.]

That's a good recipe I've brewed it a quite few times always with good results.

I'd also recommend M. Ollossons recipes for Harvistoun Original 80/-, makes a top notch pint!

[oblivious]

Its a really nice pint

[eskimobob]

Hmmm - Fancy a go at that myself.

[johnmac]

I think I'll give it a go as well. Even by GW standards, that appears to be a lot of grain for an OG of 1043...

[BurtonBrewer]

This is my favorite brew,Ive brewed it 6 times so far.The past 2 brews Ive used a lighter coloured chocolate from Hop and Grape to give a delightful mahogany colour.Try it!

[oblivious]

A superbly balanced golden heavy,80 shilling is from the caledonian brewery in Edinburgh.Full malt in the mouth,deep,dry hop finish with chocolate notes.
Pale malt - 3600g (65%)
crystal malt - 750g (15%)
amber malt - 500g (10%)
chocolate malt - 250g (5%)
wheat malt - 250g (5%)

fuggle - 50g start of boil
goldings - 42g start of boil

goldings - 7g last 15 min
recipe by graham wheeler and roger protz
mash liquor 12lt
mash temp 65
alc content 4.3%
og 1043
final gravity 1011
bitterness 36 ebu
final volume 23lt

Did you use 1728 Scottish Ale or other type of yeast?

[mysterio]

Seems like a sensible choice to me, or any other clean ale yeast. It might be worth fermenting the Scottish ale yeast at slightly lower temperatures to restrain the fruity esters and allow the roasted malts to come through.

[steve_flack]

I recently brewed a nice one with US-56. I had a fair bit of speciality malt in it so it still came out quite sweet (US-56 might otherwise make it too dry).

[oblivious]

Was it the same recipes as above or different?

[Doingatun]

I’ve just started drinking my 2nd AG brewed 1st Feb McEwan 80/- from Wheeler Protz book BCEBAH, thought it is excellent, pleasing malt, hop flavours and nice mouth feel. To be repeated

23L

Pale Malt 2900g
Flaked Maize 650g
Flaked Wheat 220g
Roast Barley 45g
Cane Sugar325g
Challenger Hops 45g Start of boil

Used Safale S-04 yeast

Goldings Hops 10g Last 15 mins

67c 90 min mash

30 EBU 25 EBC

OG: 1042 FG: 1008 4.6% ABV

On tap/Bottles - Coopers Draught Kit – Grolsch 1st AG – 80/- 2nd AG

Maturing - Murphy Stout 3rd AG

[BurtonBrewer]

Did you use 1728 Scottish Ale or other type of yeast?[/quote]


Ive used Safale S04, Danstar Nottingham and Gervin ale yeasts on this brew. The Safale came out the best for me.It gave me a more crisp ale,where the others were a bit to fruity for my pallette. Cheers Steve.

[Chiltern Brewer]

Yeh, I'm also a fan of Caledonian beers although haven't had any in ages.

A few years ago, I managed to get a quick tour of the brewery, and saw the direct fired coppers. Wasn't there a change of management/ownership recently?

They use to produce the odd bottle conditioned beer - maybe you could get hold of some yeast that way?