Stones bitter recipe please guys?

[stee41]

How close is the Graham wheelers recipe?

advice here would be great guys thanks

[nobby]

I dont know but there is another one here

http://www.hopandgrain.com/default.aspx ... a372d6c2c2

[stee41]

Hi Nobby,
that link doesnt take me to a Stones recipe?
Stee

[eguin]

Hi

here's the recipe off hopand grain, it was a few pages on from the link;

Stones Best Bitter - 23 litres


Stones Best Bitter

Brewlength - 23 litres
Efficiency - 78%
Estimated OG - 1042
Estimated FG - 1009
ABV - 4.3%

Grist

Pale Malt 3870g
Crystal Malt 170g
Torrified Wheat 170g

Hops

Goldings Hops 30 Bittering units, added at start of the boil.
Goldings Hops 16g, added at the last 15 minutes of the boil.
Goldings Hops 6g, added at the end of the boil, soak for 30 mins.

Use Englist Ale Yeast

[stee41]

great thanks for that Eguin, I did have a look but obviously had my eyes shut!!

[critch]

or you could just pee in a bucket

[nobby]

I dont know but there is another one here

http://www.hopandgrain.com/default.aspx ... a372d6c2c2

You have to look for it in there.


From what I can remember Stones used to be total rubbish so cant imagine why anyone want to brew it.

[danbrew]

The stuff out of a can is vile. Maybe there is a cask version that no-one knows about?

I'm sure there's something other than pale and crystal in there too. Brown Malt or something that I don't like the taste of...

[eguin]

or you could just pee in a bucket

Or mix in 10 litres of wilkinsons wallpaper paste into the stones recipe and you will have
Whitbread trophy bitter ,

[nobby]

The stuff out of a can is vile. Maybe there is a cask version that no-one knows about?

I'm sure there's something other than pale and crystal in there too. Brown Malt or something that I don't like the taste of...

Not brown malt most probably saw dust off the floor

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Hi

here's the recipe off hopand grain, it was a few pages on from the link;

Stones Best Bitter - 23 litres


Stones Best Bitter

Brewlength - 23 litres
Efficiency - 78%
Estimated OG - 1042
Estimated FG - 1009
ABV - 4.3%

Grist

Pale Malt 3870g
Crystal Malt 170g
Torrified Wheat 170g

Hops

Goldings Hops 30 Bittering units, added at start of the boil.
Goldings Hops 16g, added at the last 15 minutes of the boil.
Goldings Hops 6g, added at the end of the boil, soak for 30 mins.

Use Englist Ale Yeast

That can't be right can it??? that'll turn out quite drinkable, Stones isn't.
Plus we don't know the chemicals they added, always gave me a thick head!!

BB

[stee41]

A thick head...you sure it was the beer? hahaha

[Dennis King]

Must admit I thought Stones went the same way as Watneys red and Ind coope Long life.

[stee41]

must also admit cask stones and exhibition always gave me a mother of a headache after lots of pints, anyone remember Newcastle brown ale on tap, was never a cask ale as far as I can remember, but some beers are meant to be bottle drank, Newcastle brown was and still the only way to be drank!

[Bayerd]

I always had the same opinion of Stones as others above, until one day when I went on a cellar management course at the Cannon Brewery in Sheffield (RIP). The trainer said that for lunch we were to go to the Pig & Whistle, which was the brewery tap. We were also told that we had an hour to sup as much as we wanted. I moaned "Shame it's Stones..". The trainer said "you won't have tasted Stones like this before!" and he was right, it was one of the best pints I've ever had. Basically what they did was after conditioning they would barrel and stick a use by date of a month on it. They would then keep one barrel from each brew in case of complaints. On the 31st day it was moved to the tap and then drank.

If you really must brew something akin to Stones, best leave it a good while before atempting to drink......