Crashed a skidoo and need old speckled hen recipe...

[Subsonic]

Yes my wife was driving it. Straight off the mountain we went on New Years Evening. Am home now and recovered ok with only a busted rib left to heal. She was ok too, I am sure she was after the insurance...

So, courtesy of ADM I now have my 50 litre SS mash tun with a fully automated PID controlled RIMS heater. It is shiny nuts, and I have to say after using propane for it - it is awesome! I still use propane for the boil mind. A mate wants a speckled hen clone, all grain. I have searched a bit but not had a lot of luck. Any of you brewers got a recipe? Great thing with ADM's setup is that my 3 tier system (with twin marchmays) is actually redundant. I can use a mash tun and batch sparge thus rendering my HLT and marchmay redundant. I'm thinking of using the 50 litres HLT as a fermenter. Nothing is easy is it... Subsonic.

[staplefordbill]

Crikey! Something like that only happens once a lifetime so I'm sure the beer gods are smiling on you now.

Clone Brews and Brew Your Own British Real Ale both have recipes for Old Speckled Hen. I'm drinking the BYOBRA one at the moment and it's really nice. Feel a bit guilty posting GW's recipe so here's the Clone Brews one for a 19l brew length:

Mash for 90 minutes:
3.6kg pale malt
113g wheat malt
340g crystal malt

Boil for 90 mins:
20g Challenger for 90 mins

14 minutes from the end add:
14g East Kent Goldings
14g Challenger
5ml Irish moss

At the end of the boil, add 28g East Kent Goldings.

[Subsonic]

Thats great thanks! Sub

[staplefordbill]

Have a feeling the Old Speckled Hen recipe's changed since Clone Brews wrote it up (no wheat malt) but I'm sure it'll do!

[Scroogemonster]

I've just done GW Draught Bass recipe (25 litres) using Brewlabs Burton Ale yeast...
Tastes very similar to old speckled hen, just slightly lighter in colour... (Brewlabs wouldn't tell me the origin of the yeast )
Food for thought maybe?
Kev

[R1ch]

Scrooge, did that yeast have a number or ident?

[Scroogemonster]

2556 Burton 1

[Bribie]

My Hen recipe which I cobbled together out of a few forums is:
23L batch to yield 21L

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 87.38 %
0.30 kg Crystal Heritage (56.0 SRM) Grain 5.83 %
0.10 kg Carared (20.0 SRM) Grain 1.94 %
33.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (60 min) Hops 25.3 IBU
10.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (15 min) Hops 3.8 IBU
20.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (15 min) Hops 5.1 IBU
30.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (5 min) Hops 3.1 IBU
0.25 kg Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM) Sugar 4.85 %

Wyeast 1968 London ESB

Beer Profile

Original Gravity: 1.054 SG
Alcohol by Vol: 5.25 %
Bitterness: 37.2 IBU

Turned out noice

[mysterio]

Wow glad you're still alive pal, sounds painful

RIMS sounds good, you got any photos?

[johnbarleycorn]

Sub,
Ive just PM'd you mate........ I'm gonna be doin a Spitfire clone tomorrow using those hops you picked in the hedges near to your house.... Lets hope they are hops anyway!!
For those that dont know - he's got a ready supply of hops left over from the "old days" how lucky is that !!!!