English Ales - What's your favorite recipe?

[unionrdr]

Don't the usual ones, like photobucket translate well to those new phones?

 

[bucfan1234]

Yeah, I can just email them from my phone. What I'm more in need of is a good easy hosting site I can use from my phone.

https://www.flickr.com/

Flickr may work. My phone can upload directly to it. Their site is also easy to use and it works great.

 

[Hanglow]

imgur is good

 

[bucfan1234]

As it turns out, making #3 invert sugar at 60-70 SRM isn't too much fun. lol But, it is as dark as a stout and delicious. I see why you use turbinado sugar.

At least now, after nearly three hours, I made enough for two batches of vintage ale.
So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

 

[patto1ro]

oh, and the hallertauer was used because it's what I had on hand. It's still a clean and simple bittering hop, but feel free to substitute to English hops according to you preference

Just been looking at the records of a small Yorkshire brewery from the 1890's. They used Hallertau hops both for bittering and dry hops.

 

[JKaranka]

As it turns out, making #3 invert sugar at 60-70 SRM isn't too much fun. lol But, it is as dark as a stout and delicious. I see why you use turbinado sugar.

At least now, after nearly three hours, I made enough for two batches of vintage ale.
So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

You might be more tempted by the invert + molasses method next time

 

[bucfan1234]

I might, but I don't know about that method.

 

[unionrdr]

Isn't that combo how they make black treacle?

 

[balrog]

As it turns out, making #3 invert sugar at 60-70 SRM isn't too much fun. lol But, it is as dark as a stout and delicious. I see why you use turbinado sugar.

At least now, after nearly three hours, I made enough for two batches of vintage ale.
So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

'Gunga, alunga-gunga'

I made some #2 a while back and still haven't had the gumption to use it.

What's the shelf life of something like #2 at room temp anyway?

 

[JKaranka]

'Gunga, alunga-gunga'

I made some #2 a while back and still haven't had the gumption to use it.

What's the shelf life of something like #2 at room temp anyway?

I wonder if you measure the shelf life in years or decades.

Good instructions usually here:

http://www.unholymess.com/blog/beer-brewing-info/making-brewers-invert

The amounts of molasses to add are minuscule.

 

[balrog]

I wonder if you measure the shelf life in years or decades.

Good instructions usually here:

http://www.unholymess.com/blog/beer-brewing-info/making-brewers-invert

The amounts of molasses to add are minuscule.

I've read that page before, certainly one of the ones I used when I went to make my #2, but now it seems to be having tech difficulties because that link doesn't seem to bring up anything useful ("Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed; If you would like to pass argument by reference, modify the declaration of _e(). in /home/henken/unholymess.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/google-adsense-dashboard/google_adsense_dashboard.php on line 235")

 

[bucfan1234]

Link doesn't work. Bummer.

 

[balrog]

It's like there's an echo in here
I have a doc where I basically screen scraped that, and other, articles if you want it but there are plenty other Google-able instructables

(ed: there is also the wayback machine, which has a snapshot of the site from May here)

 

[bucfan1234]

Wayback machine ... Awesome. Thanks! I had no idea such a thing existed.

I will try the blending method next time.

 

[lowtones84]

1.068 is pretty high for India Porter already! Most records I've seen are 1.055-1.065. I start counting 1.065+ as stout.

Well, I was shooting for 1.062 but gotta better efficiency than usual. This chart shows gravities nearly that high, but not quite that high. http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2012/11/lets-brew-special-1859-barclay-perkins.html

 

[JKaranka]

Just drunk 3 gallons of Austerity Porter between six people on a 1940s themed Xmas meal. Everyone merry and walking ok back to buses and taxis. Mix included BMC, ale and craft beer drinkers so I can confirm it's a sound beer. Sort of hits a common ground between Guinness, Brains Dark and Kernel porters that seems to satisfy most people. Bitter and dry enough to be refreshing but not acrid or roasty as to turn people off. Complemented the ox heart stew and the mock duck very nicely.

 

[lowtones84]

Just drunk 3 gallons of Austerity Porter between six people on a 1940s themed Xmas meal. Everyone merry and walking ok back to buses and taxis.

If split evenly, 1/2 gallon per person? Not bad!

 

[JKaranka]

If split evenly, 1/2 gallon per person? Not bad!

Very reasonable at a pint per hour

 

[lowtones84]

Oh yeah, absolutely. And from what I remember it's fairly low gravity. Glad that it went over well!

 

[JKaranka]

1.035

 

[patto1ro]

1.035

I'd need a round gallon of a beer of that gravity.

 

[JKaranka]

I'd need a round gallon of a beer of that gravity.

Yes, we didn't all drink the same amount. I moved up to Victorian style stout when the keg kicked.

 

[lowtones84]

My first barleywine got down to an FG of 1.012, whoops! I was looking for a bit more sweetness, but the hydro sample was very promising for a beer with an 1.092 OG and less than two months since brew day. Bottled my export porter as well, also promising! Except the autosiphon was getting plugged with leaf EKG bits from the dryhopping...

 

[bucfan1234]

Just drunk 3 gallons of Austerity Porter between six people on a 1940s themed Xmas meal. Everyone merry and walking ok back to buses and taxis. Mix included BMC, ale and craft beer drinkers so I can confirm it's a sound beer. Sort of hits a common ground between Guinness, Brains Dark and Kernel porters that seems to satisfy most people. Bitter and dry enough to be refreshing but not acrid or roasty as to turn people off. Complemented the ox heart stew and the mock duck very nicely.

That beer sounds excellent. Great idea for a Christmas dinner party. Are those vintage or traditional dishes in your neck of the woods?

I am still looking forward to brewing my 1940 porter. I had to order the malts, LHBS didn't have them, so it looks like a boxing day brew for that one.

 

[Hanglow]

I was in Conniston today and sampled some of the local modern classic bitter Bluebird

Makes me want to brew an all challenger bitter again! The Old Man Ale was excellent too. I preferred them to the HAwkshead beers I had yesterday, although they were very good too, just a bit more modern.


Here are some crappy pics.
Round the back, it's in a nice picturesque place

Front

brewing area

bar

bluebird

oldman ale

Looks a bit of a squeeze in the brewing shed, you can see why they have to contract out the bottled ales

 

[iijakii]

Man that looks like a fantastic little pub. Would drink many a pint there. Beautiful hill in the background.

 

[Hanglow]

The Lake district is great for pubs, although there are a lot of tied houses from the likes of Jennings (who are Marstons owned) and Robbinsons . So the beers can get a bit similar if you just wander into random pubs. I'm not the biggest fan of those regional brewers but there are a fair number of independent micros throughout the area too

 

[JKaranka]

I do like a bottle of Old Tom, though! Every regional brewery seems to have one beer I like. Jennings I know less of. St Austell's I like a fresh pint of Tribute. Brains I like Dark.

 

[Hanglow]

Sneck Lifter from Jennings is my favourite beer of theirs, at least of the ones I've tried. It's an interesting strongish, dark bitter. I can take or leave the rest of them .And yes Old Tom is great but I'm not a fan of their other beers, and being let down by the Trooper beer annoyed me . I really like some of the other regionals, St Austell, Harveys, Adnams, Hook Norton, Lees, Holts etc . Others I really can't get on with, such as Shepherd Neame

 

[JKaranka]

Adnams bitter is nice, so much Fuggles resin!. Not a fan of Sneck Lifter. With Sheperd Neame, I think I liked one of their porters or stouts and I'm just about ok with an occasional Bishops' Finger if nothing else is available.