Double Diamond

[steambrew]

The topic this evening at the pub was beer that we miss one old gent told us his was double diamond he has a 70 birthday coming up later in the year and we would love to give him some bottles of it as a present does any have a recipe of this beer from a age long gone

[Good Ed]

This was a premium pale ale of high 40's gravity made by Ind Coope. There is a bit on Ron Pattinson's blog about it. It was an average pint but at the top of the gravity range to some of the other swill about. I suspect it would have been pale malt with a small % of crystal with invert sugar and/or some flaked maize, and Fuggles/Goldings/Challenger.

[IPA]

The topic this evening at the pub was beer that we miss one old gent told us his was double diamond he has a 70 birthday coming up later in the year and we would love to give him some bottles of it as a present does any have a recipe of this beer from a age long gone

There is a good recipe in GW's European Beer book. Also extra info about it.

[Dennis King]

I remember the beer as there were a lot of Ind Coope pubs around here. I seem to remember it being a bit better than the other premium keg bitters sold by the big brewery's at the time. They also brewed it as a higher gravity bottled export beer that I think became Ind Coope draught Burton ale at the start of the real ale revival in the mid 70's. This was a lovely beer one of my all time favorites.

[troutie]

[Good Ed]

[quote="Dennis King"]I remember the beer as there were a lot of Ind Coope pubs around here. I seem to remember it being a bit better than the other premium keg bitters sold by the big brewery's at the time. They also brewed it as a higher gravity bottled export beer that I think became Ind Coope draught Burton ale at the start of the real ale revival in the mid 70's. This was a lovely beer one of my all time favorites.[/quote]

I also remember Ind Coope from my teenage years in SE London.

I think DD had it's origins as an IPA brewed by Allsopp's in the 1800's, and then came into the Ind Coope stable when they merged with Allsopp in 1934 I believe.

[steambrew]

Many thanks for all the suggestions I have been told there is a clone on the beersmith site does anyone use that site as I am told its members only if so could they look it up and post it here many thanks in anticipation

[GAZ9053]

The only one with a rating, no idea how close it is.


Batch Size: 6.08 gal Style: Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) ( 8C)
Boil Size: 7.76 gal Style Guide: BJCP 2008
Color: 8.2 SRM
Bitterness: 29.1 IBUs Boil Time: 90 min
Est OG: 1.053 (12.9° P) Mash Profile: Single Infusion, Full Body, No Mash Out
Est FG: 1.011 SG (2.8° P) Fermentation: My Aging Profile
ABV: 5.5% Taste Rating: 35.0

Ingredients Amount Name Type #
10 lbs 7.55 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain 1
8.57 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 2
7.29 oz Corn, Flaked (1.3 SRM) Grain 3
7.29 oz Toasted Malt (27.0 SRM) Grain 4
1.06 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.0%] - Boil 90 min Hops 5
0.53 oz Challenger [7.5%] - Boil 15 min Hops 6
0.53 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.0%] - Boil 15 min Hops 7
0.49 oz Styrian Goldings [5.4%] - Boil 1 min Hops 8
0.42 oz Fuggles [4.5%] - Boil 1 min Hops 9
1 pkgs Thames Valley Ale (Wyeast Labs #1275) Yeast 10

[6470zzy]

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=243091

Some recipes and assorted information on Double Diamond for you to peruse.

Cheers

[steambrew]

Many thanks for all your help with this recipe it will be brewed next weekend so will keep posted then we may try the others from another form thanks again

[micmacmoc]

I could just drink a pint of that! Funny how sometimes you have the urge for the mass produced stuff. Same with bread, sometimes a fried egg butty in supermarket white sliced is the bizz.

[steambrew]

A most enjoyable morning brewing beer my brother brought my grainfather back I purchased it some months ago but have never used it as he borrowed it and made some excellent beer so it was a learning curve for me with his help we started at 8 and finished midday we used the recipe as was suggested we hit our figures spot on as I post this the yeast has just started to work and it smells great
As this was my first time with the grainfather I was very very impressed sadly my brother took it home with him

[Good Ed]

Anyone else remember this from the bottom of the Rotunda in Birmingham



Also a link from Ron P giving you the gravity

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/se ... le+diamond

[micmacmoc]

What? A 37 in classic blue? I'm an ex BR shunter, a driver let me take one of these tractors down Canute road , where the boat trains used to be collected in Southampton. Happy days. Oh....the 'double diamond'? Didn't notice it.

[SHIELDS EXILE]

I made DEave Lines 1038 og version, in January 16, and it is very like it tasted in the 1960s.