KingBrianI
Well-Known Member
OMG. I get sick just thinking about it. We tried some last night and I got two sips down. My buddy only lasted one sip.
Uh, about your offer to bring me a bottle...that's ok, I don't have room for it in my truck
Haha, I'll still bring a bottle and you can do with it what you wish. I'm holding on to the tiniest thread of hope that a little conditioning will do it good. But in all honesty, I think it will only get worse. But hey, if anyone is into "ale" that tastes like well-chewed, half-digested oatmeal in a slightly alcoholic tasting shoe broth. And that smells like an old opossum contracted an intestinal disorder and died in it's own foul excrement in the middle of a swamp. And it was in the 90s with high humidity and it had been a couple days. And when you kick the dead opossum it's melting flesh writhes with the movements of hundreds of maggots. Well then this "ale" might just be your thing.
Please, everyone. For the love of god. Boil your wort!!!
Haha! Did it gush on you?
I don't see that the 3:1 barley/oat ratio is based on the Monks of St. Paul's Cathedral inventory. And it is an inventory more than a recipe. There is another article somewhere out in internetland that discusses whether the units are by weight or measure which can make a difference.I think your ratio of Oats to Barley is off. As posted by flyangler, check out this article.
Why use so many oats? The guy did the research on this (the article I linked) uses a 3:1 ratio of barley to oats, almost the opposite of the recipes on here. Has anyone tried the recipes from this article? I plan to soon.
. . . . . The bitterness is not "clean", there is some herb flavor, but not overpowering or bad.
I'll answer the second part first. I did not add the flameout addition. I decided the bitterness addition was the most important to me and was not sure how much flavor would carry through.Can you expound on this biterness/flavor a little? I've found when boiling herbs to use about half as much as one would hops, even at that my "gruit style" ales have taken extensive conditioning to be really good. Also did you add the flameout addition or just 1hr?
. . . . I think it is the yarrow that is a bit citrusy, the other two more earthy with a sweet and sour thing going on.
I would not add more than I did, adding the smaller amount may have worked as well.
Currently I am not unhappy with the flavor, but there is a ways to go.
It's about a year and a half later and I have made my second go at this....I'll look forward to trying this again with some small changes.
It is on the provided link, but a bit in pieces....Lets see the last recipe?...
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