snecklifter

[durrie]

Hello folks
just a quickie. has any one got a clone recipe for this fantastic beer please.
just spent a week camping in Oxenhope with the family 52 of us including kids man what a laugh was had
went in to Howarth in the old hall pub and found it. fantastic brew.
anyhow heres hoping .
cheers
kev.

[alix101]

Tried looking but I can't find anything..seems like this beer hasn't been cracked..

[durrie]

Oh no tell me its not true
google's gona get a googling tonight
cheers anyhow..

[CestrIan]

Snecklifter is a lovely pint and I had a crack at this a while a go with this recipe and it is very close IMO. The other Jennings recipes in BYOBRA have a healthy dose of wheat malt or torrefied wheat and also contain sugar. I used a lot of wheat which gives it that creamy head but I don't tend to use sugar very much and I wanted some body on this one, so I didn't use sugar as I thought it might thin it out. I also used some amber malt, which I haven't seen in other recipes, but I think it gives it the biscuity flavour that you get in snecklifter. The hops are challenger, fuggles and ekg on most online recipes and seem to be right to me.

Snecklifter

Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 8 lbs. 13.0 oz 4000 grams 81.2%
Wheat Malt 3.5 EBC 1 lbs. 1.6 oz 500 grams 10.2%
Amber Malt 60 EBC 0 lbs. 10.5 oz 300 grams 6.1%
Chocolate Malt 1050 EBC 0 lbs. 4.4 oz 125 grams 2.5%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Challenger Whole 7.6 % 60 mins 0 lbs. 1.0 oz 28 grams 40%
Fuggle Whole 4.9 % 30 mins 0 lbs. 1.0 oz 28 grams 40%
Golding Whole 5.7 % 15 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 14 grams 20%


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.013
Alcohol Content: 5.1% ABV
Total Liquor: 33.2 Litres
Mash Liquor: 12.3 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 82 %
Bitterness: 35 EBU
Colour: 61 EBC

[durrie]

Cestrian
thanks mate iam going to do this on saturday will try to let all know how it turns out
again many thanks
kev

[CestrIan]

Good luck. Let us know how you get on!

[durrie]

Cestrian
Can you remember what yeast you used mate.
just been informed gonna have to brew on sunday. (bleedin nephew's 2nd b-day party on saturday )

[seymour]

You may've already read this, but here's some additional info in an older, related thread. Nothing about yeast though.
http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... =5&t=24025

This news article describes Jenning's flood ordeal, after which they had to retrieve their proprietary yeast strain from the national yeast bank. http://www.beer-pages.com/stories/jennings-brewery.htm One small clue is that Jenning's original strain doesn't generate the Burton snatch that Marston's does, which I know is mainly related to water chemistry, but some yeasts produce more sulfur than others...I digress. I don't have any records of a Jennings culture available commercially, so you could try contacting BrewLab or culturing one up from a cask sample at the pub. Let me know if you capture one!

[CestrIan]

I used WLP002.

[durrie]

Cestrian thanks for the info mate

Seymore
as far as reculturing goes i wouldnt know where to start. but will try to keep you posted on how things go/turn out
thanks again chaps for all the info
kev

[durrie]

Well its on couldnt get any wlp so had to get some mauribrew .
brewed on monday in the end woke up tuesday morn and there was krud everywhere
it was even on the ceiling and it carried on spewing out of the air lock most of the day
but things have calmed down a bit now. BUT IT SMELLS LOVERLY all round the house