Exmoor Gold

[bitter_dave]

Following popular demand here is the recipe for Exmoor Gold from Wheeler and Protz's Brew Your Own British Ale:

for 23 ltrs

Pale Malt 4,600gm

Start of boil
Challenger Hops 50gm
Fuggles hops 21gm

Last 15 mins of boil
Fuggles hops 10gm
Golding hops 10gm
Irish moss 10gm

Mash schedule (66 degrees C) 90 mins
Boil time 90 mins
Racking gravity 1010
Alcohol content 4.70%
Bitterness units 40
Colour 8 EBC

Malt extract version: replace pale malt with…

Premium malt extract 3,550 gm

[bitter_dave]

...and for those of us who are even more thirsty

for 25 ltrs

Pale Malt 5,000gm

Start of boil
Challenger Hops 55gm
Fuggles hops 23gm

Last 15 mins of boil
Fuggles hops 10gm
Golding hopd 10gm
Irish moss 10gm

Mash schedule (66 degrees C) 90 mins
Boil time 90 mins
Racking gravity 1010
Alcohol content 4.70%
Bitterness units 40
Colour 8 EBC

Malt extract version: replace pale malt with…

Premium malt extract 3,850 gm

[Reg]

I thought we were having virtual pencils like Crackerjack?










































CRACKERJACK!

[bitter_dave]

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ Jan 27 2006, 12:18 PM)Good man! For that you get a virtual Jims HB forum badge
Excellent! I'll look forward to that - I hope it's better than a blue peter badge and gets me into breweries rather than museums

As I'm on my 'lunch break' I'll give you the description from the book as well - sounds really nice:

'A superb and quenching golden ale. Almost a hybrid with a lager bouquet and palate, and with the finish of a stong ale. Dry, quenching balance of malt and hops, long finish with bitter-sweet notes and light fruit hints.'

[Jim]

Nice one, Dave. The badge is on its way!

[Andy]

[Andy]

(without the kiddie fiddling connotations of course!)


:rolleyes:

[Krispy Krouton]

Resurrecting an old thread here but Exmoor Gold is one of my favorite drinks so I've got the grain and hops on order. It will be my first time with all grain and I've only got a small boil pot, but I'll have enough room to do half the amount I think. Got an 18litre pot but that's up to the brim. If I just half this recipe will it give the same beer? Also how much strike water will I need for 2.3kg of grain? Just giving this a go see what happens. Cheers.

[seymour]

...I'll have enough room to do half the amount I think. Got an 18litre pot but that's up to the brim. If I just half this recipe will it give the same beer?...

Yes, it's really that simple.

Also how much strike water will I need for 2.3kg of grain?...

Approximately 11.9 Liters/2.6 Imperial gallons/3.14 US gallons

...Just giving this a go see what happens. Cheers.

Sounds like you're set. Best of luck and happy brewing!

[Krispy Krouton]

Thanks for the reply Seymour. Brew day is right now. Already had a spillage but not much luckily. Haha. Half an hour into the mash and can only get up to a constant 65.1 degrees. Hoping to get 15 litres of beer out of this.

[seymour]

How'd it turn out?

[Krispy Krouton]

Not too bad in the end. The most tricky part was getting the bag into the collander (it was a biab) and sparging. The bag was just too big and I ended up just grabbing anything to hand that got me through it haha. I should've thought about this but was just keen to get cracking. Only got one big pot and that's the boil pot. Its fermenting steadily now at 18 degress with some s-04 divided into 5l plastic water bottles in the airing cupboard.