Theakstons Old Peculier

[Gurgeh]

One of my favourites, though i've failed to find a recipe on here for it.

Could someone with 5 minutes and GW's book please help?

Thanks

[Jim]

There's an extract recipe here.

[johnmac]

From GW BYORAAH:

OG1058
Pale malt 4500g
crystal620g
Black 120g

In the copper;
maltose syrup500g
Inverrt cane sugar 500g
challenger (start)30g
fuggles (start) 35g
last 15min 12g fuggles
mash @ 66c 2h, boil 2h
30EBU


From Dave Line BBLTYB:

25 Litres:

2kg Dark malts extract
250g roast barley
250g crystal
1kg soft dark brown sugar
100g black treacle
60g fuggles
5 sweetner tablets

Boil everything for 45 mins.

[Gurgeh]

most kind - thankyou both very much!

[spearmint-wino]

My recipe is on here somewhere, basically its BYORAAH with a little tweak at the end in terms of hops.

I've managed to succumb to only one bottle so far (its meant to be for christmas) and its actually pretty close

[oblivious]

It seems like a lot of roast barley, I don’t remember it being that roasty, but enjoy

[oblivious]

Sorry did not see the GW BYORAAH, looks good

Some dark crystal malt would be a good choice if you can get some

[Gurgeh]

The maltose syrup & invert cane sugar - can i just swap that for a tin of black treacle and up the pale malt to hit gravity?

Also, I'm thinking I will swap the challenger for target (12%AA) and will chuck in 20g goldings in the last 15 mins shoudl be a little more bitter (39 IBU) and have just a little hop flavour to boot.

Using SO4 on this beer - one sachet in a DFS, or two?

DIRC there's some concern about target and so4 being used together?

[Bazil]

From GW BYOBRAAH

OG 1058
25 L

Pale malt 4480gm
Crystal 610gm
Torrefied Wheat 310gm
Black Malt 145gm
White Sugar 620gm

Fuggles 42gm
Challenger 25gm

I used Wyeat 1968

Mash 67 - 68c 90 min
90 min boil

I've done 23l of this as part of my Christmas stock, tastes alot better than the original bottled version.

Cheers
Barry

[oblivious]

Very nice Bazil

do you have the efficiency or that brew

and the IBU's?

[Bazil]

The book says 29 IBU and I think GW's efficiency is based on 75%.

Mine worked out at 33 IBU, I'm a bit lazy when it comes to correcting IBU's for my hops and the efficiency was 79%.

[Aleman]

DIRC there's some concern about target and so4 being used together?

I've found a harsh bitterness results , but that was in a pale ale. Discussing this with other brewers over a pint of the said beer one said. "That explains it, I thought you'd nicked a keg of mine, which was brewed with Target and SO4" I have soft water he had moderately hard, I suspect the other thing that might have influenced my beer was that it was a small beer made after a barley wine - possible tannin extraction.

[monk]

DIRC there's some concern about target and so4 being used together?

I've found a harsh bitterness results .

Hmmm. I just made a strong bitter that was supposed to be only around 33 ibu, but it came out VERY harshly bitter. Mine had Target and S-04 too.

[Aleman]

This is mine


The comments I had about OP II was that it was too roasty, so for III I went for an all Carafa Special III roast malt and while it was nice it was a little too smooth so for IV I've cut back the Carafa III and added a bit of Chocolate and Amber.

Theakstons use a special grade of Sugar made for them by Tate and Lyle, prime this with 2oz of treacle, which is not a substitute for the original sugar but is acceptable

[Gurgeh]

Thought as much - challenger it is then