Smoked Honey Porter - Great Pics!

[floydmeddler]

For defs Tom. Would love to try the Wild Kiwi and Old Black Imperial Stout. They sound right up my street!

[floydmeddler]

OK... I added 1KG of Rowse honey today. Took a sample and didn't get any honey flavour. I suppose there was always going to be little chance of a honey hit as it's so delicate. Perhaps i got too caught up in the desired/ideal result of this beer and didn't really think about it realistically. Of course those roasts and smokiness were going to thwart any hope of the honey making an appearance; even if I did add 1KG. Sure, it's early days but if I can't taste it before it ferments, I doubt it will be detectable after it ferments out.

SO! I pretty much added 1KG of sugar to this brew. DOH! I could take a chance and add more honey. Nah...

Ah well... if we don't experiment, we'll never know and who knows? It could be my greatest beer yet!

[stevetk189]

Nice thread Floyd, sounds good so far and really nice pics. Deffo get a sparkler, although it's not Southern and frowned on south of the Watford Gap, they are good things. I'm northern (Grimmmmmmsby) and have to abide by these things.

[Tom_D]

Ah well... if we don't experiment, we'll never know and who knows? It could be my greatest beer yet!

Damn right, look forward to trying it! I've still got a few of the ones you mentioned so will put your name on them.

[floydmeddler]

Nice thread Floyd, sounds good so far and really nice pics. Deffo get a sparkler, although it's not Southern and frowned on south of the Watford Gap, they are good things. I'm northern (Grimmmmmmsby) and have to abide by these things.

I'm from the north of Ireland so that's kinda the same as north of England. A sparkler I shall have!

[floydmeddler]

Ah well... if we don't experiment, we'll never know and who knows? It could be my greatest beer yet!

Damn right, look forward to trying it! I've still got a few of the ones you mentioned so will put your name on them.

Sweet man! I was in Craft a few nights back. Met Craig (I think that's his name). Nice fella... and a brewer! Will be there this Sat again.

[Tom_D]

I was in Craft a few nights back. Met Craig (I think that's his name). Nice fella... and a brewer! Will be there this Sat again.

Ah nice, I think you met Gregor, he's a good guy and a brewer! I'll be working on Saturday night so I'll bring those bottles along.

[floydmeddler]

Sweet man. I'll be leaving at around 6:15 though so might miss you... Hopefully not of course!

[floydmeddler]

Right. This is sitting at 1.012 and tasting mighty fine. I'm pretty sure I'm getting honey hit too!

Really happy with this yeast. 1kg of honey and it's still sitting at 1.012. Brilliant. Hope it doesn't drop any more.

On the downside though... not getting much smokiness any more. Maybe it will reappear when the beer's matured.

[floydmeddler]

So... some time later...

This beer turned out excellent. The honey is there in flavour and in texture. You can really get that honey flavour clinging to your tongue. The smoke is there too - delicately. Everyone who tried it got both the smoke and the honey.

All in all, this was a success... and there was me worrying as usual...