Norfolk Nog AG recipe

[steve5815]

Been looking for an AG recipe for norfolk nog if anybody can help. Got some info from the real ale almanac but not sure how to use the beer engine program, grain - pale malt, crystal malt and choco malt, hops - fuggles and goldings to 18 units of bitterness. OG 1.049 and ABV 4.6%.

[seymour]

Woodfordes Norfolk Nog (Old Ale)
OG: 1049
ABV: 4.6%
IBU: 18
Grainbill: Pale, Crystal Malt, Chocolate Malt (my guess would be 90%, 7.5%, 2.5%, about 10.25 lbs/4.65 kg total)
Hops:
.88 oz/25 g, Fuggles, 60 min
.35 oz/10 g, Goldings, 30 min
Yeast: a relatively lower attenuating English ale strain such as Fullers or Windsor

Good luck!

[PaddyX21]

I might give this a go at some point, looks a good'un

[wilfh]

You can also culture the yeast from their bottles if you can get them. Apparently a proprietary strain.
Wilf

[seymour]

You can also culture the yeast from their bottles if you can get them. Apparently a proprietary strain.
Wilf

It's true Woodforde's uses a proprietary English ale strain, and it's always possible that primary strain sometimes sneaks its way into the bottles, but it's believed their bottle-conditioned beers contain a separate strain more suited to bottle and cask conditioning. Again though, I'd love to be proven wrong. Here is a recent round-up of bottle conditioned beers believed to contain the primary strain, in case anyone is interested:

I don't know what's available in your stores (at least some of these were listed on the ASDA link you posted), but here's a list I've been compiling of bottle-conditioned beers which are believed to contain the primary strain. I'm sure there are many more which I've missed, and perhaps some of these listed contain a secondary bottling strain. As always, I'm eager for corrections and rebuttals.

Adnams (mini-kegs contain the primary dual-strain, but bottles do not)
Brakspear Oxford Gold, perhaps Triple as well
Cantillon (classic source for diverse lambic cultures)
Chimay
Coniston Bluebird Bitter
Coopers
Courage (some)
D'Achouffe
DeDolle (excellent Belgian multi-strain)
DuPont (classic saison culture, but reportedly a triple-strain, results vary)
Duvel (probably contains primary strain, some dispute)
Fullers Bengal Lancer and 1845 (extremely popular)
Gales Prize Old Ale (classic primary strain, but so old it's likely dead)
Hopback Summer Lightning
Itchen Valley Godfathers
Kindl Weiss (good Berliner Weiss lacto blend)
Marble?
Maredsous (yes-primary, but same as Duvel)
Marstons (some: Oyster Stout or Tesco's IPA?)
Morland Hen's Tooth
Ommegang
Orval (excellent blend of Belgian primary strain + brett)
Ridgeway Bad Elf, Lump of Coal, probably others (brewed by Hepworth, same primary dual strain used in bottles)
Ridleys (some)
Rochefort
Schneider Weiss (supposedly the only hefeweizen bottled with primary strain)
Sharps (some, perhaps the only way to obtain historic Morrells strain)
Shepherd Neame Spitfire and 1698
Sierra Nevada
St. Austell Proper Job and Black Job
Tesco's "Finest Belgian Abbey Ale" by the Huyghe Brewery
Thomas Hardy (some)
Thwaites (some)
Unibroue (a Belgian-style brewery in Canada, very spicy, a mutation of Chimay?)
Westmalle
Westvleteren
Widmer Hefeweizen (not a true Hefeweizen strain, Americanized version of historic Zum Uerige alt strain)
Worthington White Shield (probably not primary strain, but a nice high-attenuating strain anyway)
Wye Valley (filtered but then bottle-conditioned with fresh, primary, single-strain)
Youngs Special London Ale

A couple more ideas for fresh yeast:
Many local microbreweries have imperfect filtration, and likely skip reseeding with a secondary yeast, so it's always worth a try.

Just because a beer doesn't specifically state "bottle-conditioned" doesn't automatically rule it out. If you hold it up to the light and see a layer of white at the bottom, that's yeast. A member here obtained primary yeast from a cloudy bottle of St. Peters Golden Ale. An email to the brewery confirmed they had a recent problem with their filtration!

Other members have reported local pubs giving them the dregs of an "empty" real ale cask, free for the asking, which is almost always their primary strain. I wanna hear more of these success stories.

http://byo.com/stories/article/indices/ ... techniques
http://hbd.org/mbas/yeastht.html