08/02/08 - Mild

[mysterio]

Brewing this today from 'Brewing Classic Styles'. Substituting WLP023 Burton ale for WLP002 English ale and mashing slightly higher to compensate.

Mild

Type: All Grain
Date: 08/02/2008
Batch Size: 12.00 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
6.34 kg Pale Malt (Maris Otter) UK (4.5 EBC) Grain 84.83 %
0.45 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 6.07 %
0.34 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (236.4 EBC) Grain 4.55 %
0.23 kg Chocolate Malt (Pale) (400.0 EBC) Grain 3.02 %
0.11 kg Black (Patent) Malt (985.0 EBC) Grain 1.53 %
80.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.20 %] (60 min) Hops 18.0 IBU
1 Pkgs Burton Ale (White Labs #WLP023) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.036 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 3.45 %
Bitterness: 18.0 IBU
Est Color: 33.1

Mash Step Time Name Description Step Temp
60 min Step Add 18.68 L of water at 76.1 C 69.0 C

[delboy]

Looks good mysterio, i bet it'll be great with the wl002 yeast.

I notice you are using dark crystal, i meant to get that in my order from hopshop but only remembered it after seeing your recipe

Any water treatment on this one?

[oblivious]

Looks good, i think he has change his mild recipe to the original one on the brewing network, i think the original had a lot more crystal malt

[steve_flack]

Looks good, i think he has change his mild recipe to the original one on the brewing network, i think the original had a lot more crystal malt

I haven't checked but I think the original podcast recipe didn't have black malt in it. The one in the book does.

[mysterio]

Looks good mysterio, i bet it'll be great with the wl002 yeast.

Sorry I didn't make that clear, i'm using WLP023 rather than the WLP002 in the recipe.

I've got a vial of WLP002 in the fridge but I want to split it first rather than use it all in one batch. I'll probably try the same recipe with the two yeasts and see which one I prefer.

Water treatment, probably use the values for mild on the Murphy's site:

http://www.murphyandson.co.uk/BrewingAr ... ywhere.htm

I notice you are using dark crystal, i meant to get that in my order from hopshop but only remembered it after seeing your recipe

Dark crystal is delicious, i picked up 3 kilos from the hop shop a couple of months ago and this is the last of it going into this recipe, i've been using it in everything.

[Wez]

Have a good one Mysty, I might try this one, always fancied doing a mild.

[delboy]

Dark crystal is delicious, i picked up 3 kilos from the hop shop a couple of months ago and this is the last of it going into this recipe, i've been using it in everything.

Rub it in why not

[Wez]

Dark crystal is delicious, i picked up 3 kilos from the hop shop a couple of months ago and this is the last of it going into this recipe, i've been using it in everything.

Rub it in why not

Nah, I think he'll probably mash it Del

[oblivious]

Dark crystal is delicious, i picked up 3 kilos from the hop shop a couple of months ago and this is the last of it going into this recipe, i've been using it in everything.

Rub it in why not

These lads have it and much more http://thehomebrewcompany.ie/


and are only 7 euro for delivery to all 32 counties

[delboy]

Cheers for the link OB, but unfortunately with the euro being so strong at the moment its still cheaper to get it from the UK.

[iowalad]

Have a good one!
I am enjoying the Wheeler/Mysty Boddingtons Mild a lot. Not a world of difference between that recipe and this.



Jamil (and some of you on the forum) have gotten me interested in pale chocolate. It is a rare find in these parts. My local home brew shop is trying to locate some.

EDIT: ADDED PIC

[steve_flack]

Fawcetts make a Pale Chocolate - it seems North Country Malt Supply is the US distributor.

[mysterio]

I normally order from H&G and pale chocolate seems to be their standard choc malt.

The brewday was quite fun. My plastic boiler finally gave up the ghost while heating up the sparge liquor. Nothing seemed to be able resuscitate the elements back into action. I decided mid-mash to go ahead with my stock pot conversion, which I hadn't intended to do until i'd bought all three (I have two right now). It was surprisingly easy, my 20mm bosch holesaw sliced through it like butter. I followed Vossy's instructions with fitting the SS ball-valve and it worked a charm, I fired on a propane burner and had it working as a HLT just as the mash was finishing.

I fitted a hop strainer to it and used it as a boiler too. It worked fairly well, however the 8kw burner wasn't as fast as I'd hoped. It took, maybe, about 45 minutes to bring 12 gallons to the boil. This may have felt longer than it actually was - I had made a makeshift stand out of bricks and used a piece of siphon as tubing for the gas so I wanted to keep an eye on it in case I burned the place down.

The next step is to convert another two stock pots which shouldn't be too much bother, get a couple of pumps working so I can have it on a single tier, and weld a brewstand. It's the last part i'm worried about, never welded before in my life

[iowalad]

Thanks Steve,

Passed that info along to my local shop - want to support him if he can get me the goods.

[oblivious]

Have a good one!
I am enjoying the Wheeler/Mysty Boddingtons Mild a lot. Not a world of difference between that recipe and this.



Jamil (and some of you on the forum) have gotten me interested in pale chocolate. It is a rare find in these parts. My local home brew shop is trying to locate some.

EDIT: ADDED PIC

Look like a nice pint

Jamil can be a bit funny about the whole pale chocolate v;s standard, one episode he says you can just use half the regular and the next he is saying they are two very different products