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The Spitfire as a premium Ale is a superb beer. Here is my clone of the famous premium ale. It also fits nicely along side, my other beers, the Lancastor bomber, the mosquito bomber and the hurricane ale. This is simalar to the recipe found in the book Clone brews.

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I’ve finally got around to devising something for the Lancastor bomber, the last of my squadron of beer. The idea with this brew is a dark winter ale. It will be slightly stronger at around 5.2%, hopefully.

I’m based it on a recipe, in the book ‘Clone Brews’, for Old Perculiar, only I’ve tweeked a couple of things. We’ll see how it turns out. I goes something like this. I’ve made this in a 2 gallon batch, as my pan isn’t big enough for more, you can scale it up as required. (more…)

Here is it my first attempt at a extract brew. I reckon it’s working pretty well. I started it yesterday. I’ve kept it fairly simple and used the ingredients that I have to hand. It’s a dry run as it were before I have a go at making one of the clone ales.

It starts with steeping 200grms of crystal malt in 3 l of water (I’m only making 2 gallons of beer in total as I don’t have a bigger pan yet) I heated the water to 65C then using a muslin bag to contain the grains dropped them in and let them sit for 20 mins.

I removed the grains and brought the water to the boil, once boiling I pulled the pan off the heat and added the 1.5kg of Pale liquid malt extract. It’s important to remove the pan from the heat whilst the extract dissolves other wise is burns the extract which is not a good thing. Return the pan to the heat and add 1.5 oz of goldings hops, again in a muslin bag to save straining later, the wort is then kept at a rolling boil for 45mins. The final stage is to add 0.5 oz of Fuggles hops for the last 15mins.

The pan is removed from the heat, and left to cool for 15mins before adding to the brew bin and topping up with cold water to 10l or 2gallons(UK). I used Gervin English Ale yeast.

So far so good the beer has started fermenting and exploded all over, my fault I over filled the ferementer. It does smell nice even though it’s not beer yet. It’s got a sort of coppery colour, so hopefully it won’t be poisonous when done.