Marc Ollosson Recipes

[retourrbx]

Hi

I'm going to try my first all grain in a week or two and was wondering what recipes people had tried from this guys book and what success they had with them.

I was thinking of going for the Townes IPA to start with but upping the pale malt from 4880g to 5250g. This way if there is a problem with efficiency I'll have some in reserve and also it will potentially alleviate the attenuation issue I seem to have with my extract brews... increasing the abv shouldn't bee to much of an issue On the other hand, I have made a few beers with cascade hops now so maybe I should have a go at the 100% Satisfaction upping the grain from 4500g to 5000g...

So many to choose from - any advice or comments would be great.

[Road Runner]

I have tried quite a few now from this book. All so far have been great. He states his recipes are calculated for a 70% mash efficiency, should be well within reach for most brewers, whereas I think Dave Line's recipes are calculated at a lot higher efficiency. So upping your grain bill may not be necessary.

In secondary, I currently have a Crouch Vale Millenium Gold from Marc's book, although I substituted the Chalenger Hops for Brewers Gold Hops, as apparently Crouch Vale use Brewers Gold for this beer.

I've also done the following from this book:

Bellhaven 80/- This was one of my best brews so far.
Parish Special Bitter, Really nice brew.
Poole Brewery Dolphin Bitter, very nice.
John's Premium Pale Ale, very nice.
Coal Seam, loads of flavour in this stout.

[retourrbx]

Excellent - exactly the sort of feedback I was looking for - any others with experiences?

[subsub]

I've done quite a few out of his book, my favourite being Coal Seam. I could drink that stuff forever

[Vossy1]

Hi R, Do you mean M.Ollosson's Real Ales for the home brewer

If so the recipe's in this book are calculated using 75% mash efficiency (page 25 1997 edition).

I've just done the Bosun Best Bitter (today) and most of the AG brews I've done to date have been from this book and I haven't been disappointed so far

I also have this IPA earmarked, just need to get some more Cascade 1st

[Glamrox]

I've done the 6X as a mini mash, tasted pretty good, I wouldn't say it tasted like 6X but none the less a fine pint

[OSDguy]

It's been 10 years this year since that book was written, the launch day was quite a damp squib as Princess Di's funeral was on the same day. Must have had about 5 barrels of recipes ready to taste on no one to share them with that day, mind you they went pretty rapid the week after

It's really nice to read comments about the book, such as on this thread and a few others - can't quite ever remember seeing my name bandied so much, these days when my name is thrown around it's becuase I've done summat wrong So thanks to all of you for taking the time to buy it / read it and brew recipes from it and thanks for all the nice coments.

Some of you now might be thinking is this guy for real, you can only trust you're own judgment on that....me I miss McMullen beers and still reckon the greatest advent in a welsh drinkers life was the lorry and road or was it the train and railway?

back to lurking now

[Vossy1]

Some of you now might be thinking is this guy for real,

If you are, then I owe you gallons of thank you's

Waynes World moment

We're not worthy, we're not worthy

Just spotted the Welsh bit, oh well, you can't be perfect I suppose

[RabMaxwell]

Never heard of this one before reading about it on this forum. I shall have to get a copy to add to the library.

[Road Runner]

I've had this book for a couple of years now & it's my most refered to book in brewing. I think it's great for novice brewers like myself, as it is set out really clearly. It has all the fundamentalls of the craft, without some of the possibly confusing & off puting science that other books may have. Also I think the recipes are great and easy to follow.

It's not often that you get a chance to thank an author for his work with helping you in such an interesting hobby.

So thanks very much Marc for all your help. I owe you a homebrew

Cheers

Tony.

[kinnockthecat]

Never heard of this one before reading about it on this forum. I shall have to get a copy to add to the library.

Moi aussi, mate.

[OSDguy]

Guys

the thanks are all yours not mine.
If it wasn't for interest in homebrew by my old customers and friends & people like yourselves then the book would never have got past the first page, and if it wasn't for people like yourselves buying it and using it then it wouldn't still be on the shelves.

So a BIG thanks to you all

I'll raise a glass to you all.

[Horden Hillbilly]

I'll raise a glass to you all.

I'll certainly raise one to you, I have had a great deal of pleasure out of your book!

[johnmac]

Marc, when are you going to do another book with some new recipes?

[OSDguy]

At this point I don't see there being a follow up
I've been out of the game for quite a while now and don't know what customers are after (most of the recipes in the book were driven by what customers of the old shop had been looking for) - however with some of the ales on the market now I reckon someone would have a really enjoyable challenge trying to replicate some of these.

We closed the shop in 98 and due to lack of time and moving to a smaller house I gave up brewing in 2002 After grain brewing for so long I couldn't go back to kits, which give a nice pint but not quite what I was personally after

I had done some more recipes previous to that, but these were recipes which only I had trialled and had not gone through the stage of having people test the brews and recipes.
Don't think was enough to put a book together anyways, I'll have a dig through and see if I can find them and if I can then I'll pop them on the forum if nobody objects.