Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale

Any one know of a clone for this one? Or have anything that comes close?

Thanks!!

Was it any good?

Saw it at Total Wine in the imports section even though it's brewed in New York.

Off Topic (sort of), but I just made a Black IPA named, yup, you guess it, The Black Knight IPA!

Tis but a flesh wound!

Subscribed. If someone comes up with a recipe, I want to know as well!

Yes yes yes! I wanna find a clone of this as well!

Looks like they use Whitbread Golding Variety hops and Maris Otter and it's 4.7% abv. They describe it as dry so there's probably a bit of invert sugar as well.


Wyeast 1469 is their strain, another clone recipe has them start at 66 then increase over 72 hours to 69.

1.049 OG
1.012 FG
SRM 8
ABV 4.7%
7 lbs MO
1 lb Invert No. 1
.5 lb Medium UK Crystal approx 60 SRM

1.00 oz WGV hops at 60 ~27 ibu
.5 oz at 15 3.6 ibu
.5 oz at 0

I'd mash at 153-154 as otherwise the sugar will dry the beer out too much.

I've seen it but not tried it. May have to hunt down a bottle.

It's got to at least be worth drinking while watching the movie.

Im gonna have to try that recipe once I finish my other beers on deck and free up a fermenter.

just got a sixer of this today, had to get it cause i love the movie, friend of mine tried it and said it tasted like schlitz (sp?) having never tried schlitz i dont have a frame of reference but is this accurate or no? dont mean to hijack

What are you gonna do...bleed on me??

mlarnold said:

just got a sixer of this today, had to get it cause i love the movie, friend of mine tried it and said it tasted like schlitz (sp?) having never tried schlitz i dont have a frame of reference but is this accurate or no? dont mean to hijack

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I can categorically say that this does not in fact taste like Schlitz

yeah, I love the name, very clever. I bought some on sight. I couldn't find anything good to say about the beer inside. Frankly I was a bit suspicious someone had re-labled the cheapest thing they could fond at the liquor store. Maybe I should give it another chance?

rockfish42 said:

I can categorically say that this does not in fact taste like Schlitz

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I agree. To me it was just like Old Speckled Hen, and there should be a clone of that out there somewhere in googleland.

rockfish42 said:

Looks like they use Whitbread Golding Variety hops and Maris Otter and it's 4.7% abv. They describe it as dry so there's probably a bit of invert sugar as well.


Wyeast 1469 is their strain, another clone recipe has them start at 66 then increase over 72 hours to 69.

1.049 OG
1.012 FG
SRM 8
ABV 4.7%
7 lbs MO
1 lb Invert No. 1
.5 lb Medium UK Crystal approx 60 SRM

1.00 oz WGV hops at 60 ~27 ibu
.5 oz at 15 3.6 ibu
.5 oz at 0

I'd mash at 153-154 as otherwise the sugar will dry the beer out too much.

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hi all,

Did anyone end up trying this recipe? If so was it similar to MPHG? If not what would you change?

Cheers
HC

We are the Knights who Say Knee, Bring me a Shrubbery and a keg of Home Brew hehehe

no elderberry?

I was cleaning up the other day and found this recipe in one of my notebooks. This is from an email that I had sent to the Black Sheep Brewery with the hope of getting a recipe for Holy Grail Ale.
Paul Ambler, Head Brewer and Director of Black Sheep at the time, eventually replied.
The recipe does not include any yeast strain, but does give a very specific grain bill...well except for the exact lovibond of crystal malt used. He does include the type of hops used, but not exact measurement or IBU's.
The emails were sent quite a few years back and I had assumed the recipe was lost. With the recent find I thought I would share for posterity. Cheers!

Extract derivation for Holy Grail is:

Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt: 75%
Demerara Sugar: 10.7%
Torrefied Wheat: 10%
Crystal Malt: 4.3%

Hops are an English variety called First Gold, added as 75% in the kettle and 25% as late hops after the boil. Your nearest American equivalent to First Gold is Willamette.