Lancastor Bomber - Real Ale Recipe
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.
Steep grains in 1 gallon of water at 65C for 20 mins.
180g British Crystal Malt
60g torrified wheat
50g British Chocolate Malt.
Strain the grain water into the brew pot bring the water to the boil, remove from heat and add.
1.6kg light malt extract
120g Belgian Candy sugar.
120 dark brown sugar.
60g Treacle
15g(1/2 oz) Northern Brewer Hops.
Boil the liquid for 45 mins the add.
1/4oz Fuggles
1/2 teasp Irish moss.
Boil for a further 13 mins then add
1/4oz Fuggles
Boil for a further 2mins, transfer to the fermentation vessel and add more water to a total of 10litres (2 gallons).
Gervin Ale Yeast (Ferment at 23-24C)
Ferment for 4 days then add
1/2oz Fuggles(dry hop)
Prime bottles with
150g light spray dried malt extract.
I am intend this to go it a barrel so I shall be force carbonating it. I did adjust the recipe by adding 1.7kg of light malt at the start and then I shalln’t use any priming sugar.
Judging by the colour in the fermenter it is quite a dark beer. Next beer on the list is the Spitfire Clone, that will wait until next week though.
[tags]winter ale recipe, home beer brewing, homebrew recipe[/tags]