What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

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What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by Fuggled Mind » Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:27 pm

I've had the 'Brew your own British real ale at home' book for around 7 months now and have brewed four of the recipes in the book - all with very good results. There are so many recipes I can never decide which one to do next.

My current favourite is Highgate mild.

So come on, what's yours?
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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by softlad » Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:28 pm

Of the few that I've done I would say that Gales Festival Mild is up there.

micmacmoc

Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by micmacmoc » Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:06 pm

Exmoor Gold, by a very long way.

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by fractureman » Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:09 pm

on my first GW reciepe now Summer Lightening, will give the Exmoor Gold a try next. Not a big fan of mild though
keg 1 : (Drinking) : Amarillo extract brew
keg 2 : (Conditioning) : Summer Ale extract
keg 3 : (Conditioning) : Lightening extract Goldings only
keg 4 : (Conditioning) : Lightening etxract

FV1 : FV2 :
Bottled: Brewferm Diabolo, Brewferm frambois
next up: coppers stout:)

micmacmoc

Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by micmacmoc » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:43 pm

If you like the summer lightning you're sure to like the Gold....as it goes I'm thinking of an extract summer lightning tomorrow!

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by gratefuldave54 » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:26 pm

I'm on my second Summer Lightning (still conditioning) and my first one was one of the best beers I've ever had.I'm also drinking the Speckled Hen clone which is very good too.However they really do benefit from the full 6 weeks conditioning period.

delboy

Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by delboy » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:32 pm

Sarah hughes ruby mild :beer:

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by rick_huggins » Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:05 pm

I loved the Pendle Witches brew but it was my first AG so I may have rose tinted specs on....

The TTL was good as was Deuchars and Hooky Bitter

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by Dennis King » Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:17 pm

I`ve probably done Felinfoel Double Dragon the most. Never tried the real thing but love this version. I do alter it a bit, use the ingredients for 25lts and brew 23lts.

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by mctoon » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:06 am

As my sig says, it has to be Deuchars, and fingers crossed the Black Sheep Rigg thats fermenting at the moment

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by micromaniac » Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:24 pm

micmacmoc wrote:If you like the summer lightning you're sure to like the Gold....as it goes I'm thinking of an extract summer lightning tomorrow!
noticed you did a headcracker witrh elderflower how did it turn out? i keged mine about 6 weeks ago .tried it today its bloody loobly.did 1 tin with a hop tea and elderflower and dry hopped it.made up seconed tin yesterday with a slight change or two ie more e f and more fuggles.

micmacmoc

Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by micmacmoc » Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:29 pm

I'm drinking the elderflower now, used dried so its a bit cloudy but tatses great. i wanted something like Badgers elderflower (golden glory?) but not as sweet....it came out just right. The elderflowers should be out soon so its brew again time wirth that one and some more elderflower champagne .this is now almost a year old, the few remaining bottles are superb. I took one in the pub the other week for the landlady there, she loved it, passed it round he bar and it received 100% commendation. I was so very proud!

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by Minimasher » Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:50 pm

Black Sheep Ale after a few weeks conditioning in the bottle was the best beer I have ever made.

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by dedken » Thu May 06, 2010 10:43 am

Picking up my GW book this afternoon and looking forward to it - will definitely be making a Summer Lightning/Exmoor Gold style pale ale as I haven't really done a beer of that style before and hopefully it will precipitate a long hot summer!! I might try and do a minimash-partial mash hybrid so I have a bit of conversion to do.....

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Re: What's your favourite Graham Wheeler recipe?

Post by boingy » Thu May 06, 2010 10:55 am

Ringwood XXXX Porter:

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