Black Sheep Riggwelter Recipe

[andyryan218]

I plan on attempting the following recipe for my first AG next month when i finally get my mash tun:

RIGGWELTER Black Sheep Brewery Masham.

25 litre batch OG 1056 ABV5.9% 60 units of colour 39 EBU

MARIS OTTER PALE MALT 4553 gms
CRYSTAL MALT 365 gms
CHOCOLATE MALT 600 gms
TORRIFIED WHEAT 544 gms
ROAST BARLEY 1gm

HOPS Boil time 90 minutes.

FUGGLES 26 gms
PROGRESS 27 gms
CHALLENGER 27 gms
Add 10 gms GOLDINGS last fifteen minutes.

Yeast of your choice.

have a few questions if anyone can help

Has anyone brewed this before??
Does this recipe look feasible??

Cheers

[oblivious]

Thats a huge amount of chocolate malt, IMO it would make it more of a porter/stout.

I always suspect that there was some Muscovada sugar added to that beer, but who knows

S-04 would probably work well for that beer, enjoy

[iowalad]

I have only had a few bottles of this beer and only here in the States.
I don't recall much if any chocolate malt and would guess more roasted barley.

Hopefully somebody with the real ale almanac will provide more info to you.

[monk]

For Riggwelter, the Almanac says: 70% MO, 6% Crystal, chocolate, 10% sugar, 9% torrified wheat, .005% Roast malt extract.

Notice there's no % of chocolate, but if you add up the others, there's about 5% left over for it. It notes that it has 60 units of color.

I don't know if that helps much.

[andyryan218]

Is there anywhere that will instruct me how to work out the amount of grain i would need from these percentages??

[monk]

I use Beertools.com, and just play with the percentages.

[iowalad]

Looks like I was more than a bit off

[monk]

Perhaps you had Blacksheep Bitter, Iowa? That's basically the same grain bill as the Riggwelter, including the Roast, but without the Chocolate.