AdmiralRed
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http://imgur.com/RgxQi is the grains getting smoked. Pork Chops, Hot Italian Sausage, and Boudan providing additional flavoring. Last time I did this, steak provided the flavoring.
The first time I brewed this beer I took the time to roast my own C60 and biscuit but this time I think that I will just get them at the LHBS. When this beer first came to light, I smoked the grains the day before and mashed them in the following day. I WILL NOT BE DOING THAT THIS TIME. For 3 months I had 10 gallons of the most putrid acrid tasting liquid and I thought long and hard about tossing it. Imagine drinking Bactine and you will get an idea of what I am talking about.
At 3 months and almost exactly one day, it started mellowing out rapidly. Maybe it was a bit of CO2 flushing I had done the week before trying to blow off volatiles or maybe it was just tired of me joking about how bad it was. Never the less, this beer settled into one of the best examples of a Wee I had ever had. Truth is, had I known it was going to do what it did, I would have entered it into the St. Arnold homebrew contest as the style for Divine #4 was Scotch Ale and this one would have beat the pants off the recipe that won. I know, I had them side by side.
If someone makes this recipe, let me know...you wont be disappointed.
14 lbs Pale Two Row
3 lbs Mesquite Smoked Two Row (Let it blow off volatiles for at least a week)
10 lbs Vienna Malt
1 lb Crystal 60
3 lbs Biscuit Malt
.5 lb Chocolate Malt
Mash at 154 and collect 12 gallons
70 minute boil
2oz Fuggles @70
1oz Hallertauer @70
WLP028 Scotch Ale Yeast.
The first time I brewed this beer I took the time to roast my own C60 and biscuit but this time I think that I will just get them at the LHBS. When this beer first came to light, I smoked the grains the day before and mashed them in the following day. I WILL NOT BE DOING THAT THIS TIME. For 3 months I had 10 gallons of the most putrid acrid tasting liquid and I thought long and hard about tossing it. Imagine drinking Bactine and you will get an idea of what I am talking about.
At 3 months and almost exactly one day, it started mellowing out rapidly. Maybe it was a bit of CO2 flushing I had done the week before trying to blow off volatiles or maybe it was just tired of me joking about how bad it was. Never the less, this beer settled into one of the best examples of a Wee I had ever had. Truth is, had I known it was going to do what it did, I would have entered it into the St. Arnold homebrew contest as the style for Divine #4 was Scotch Ale and this one would have beat the pants off the recipe that won. I know, I had them side by side.
If someone makes this recipe, let me know...you wont be disappointed.
14 lbs Pale Two Row
3 lbs Mesquite Smoked Two Row (Let it blow off volatiles for at least a week)
10 lbs Vienna Malt
1 lb Crystal 60
3 lbs Biscuit Malt
.5 lb Chocolate Malt
Mash at 154 and collect 12 gallons
70 minute boil
2oz Fuggles @70
1oz Hallertauer @70
WLP028 Scotch Ale Yeast.
