Golden Acre Ale (Real Ale)
If you like your beer to be hoppy then this is a good beer for you. I use Golding hops in this recipe, these give quite a hoppy taste, combined with the medium malt this ale is full of flavour but not so strong in alcohol that you fall down with wobbly legs after a pint or two, around 4.1% if you are wondering.
There is a park near where I live called Golden Acre park, hence the name for this beer.
25grms Goldings hops.
100grm Med Spray Malt.
300grms Pale spray malt.
300grms gluscose.
1 Geordie Yorkshire Bitter kit.
Safale s04 yeast.
With this recipe I simmered the hops, the malt and the glucose in 2l of water for 10 mins. I then made the beer kit in the usual way, replacing the sugar with the strained hop and malt mix. I rehydrated the yeast in half a cup of water at 40C for about 10mins. I controlled the temperature to between 19-20C.
After a month of standing this beer is ready to drink.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Would this ale be similar to say a pint of St. Austells Tribute?
February 27th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Too be honest I don’t know I shall have to try St Austells tribute. I’ll buy a bottle and find out.
Any excuse aye!
May 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Golden Acre Ale (Real Ale) Ingredients
Would you still include 1kg of sugar with the below ingredients?
25grms Goldings hops.
100grm Med Spray Malt.
300grms Pale spray malt.
300grms gluscose.
1 Geordie Yorkshire Bitter kit.
Safale s04 yeast.
Yours
Phil
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Hi Phil
The mixture of the pale, medium malt and the 300grms of glucose replaces the 1kg of sugar the kit instruction suggest using.
I find using a lot of cane sugar, adds a really metallic taste so I try not using it.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Is this for a 5 gallon kit?
October 17th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Hi chaps ive always made beer using sugar, ive just bought some geordie beer kit enhancer,which is sprayed malt(1 kg), should i bulk this out with glucose to make it go further? Ie use 0.5 kg and the other 0.5 kg glucose? I dont mind the Homebrew taste but obviously prefer the proper taste of a dry bitter.With the youngs definitive bitter kit and the sprayed malt im up to 11 quid for a 40 pint kit,so would like to reduce the costs if possible.Is there an optimum way to keep the cost down/taste good.Recession bitter might be a good name!Comments appreciated.Tony.
October 18th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Like the name, I might just have a go at an ale and give that name.
The Geordie beer enhancer is 50% glucose and 50% spray dried malt.
I’ve made ‘hurricane ale’ which is a mix of dark malt spray dried and glucose, that was good.
If you really want to add flavour, I would get some crystal malt and steep some for 20mins or so in water at 60-70C then add that to the beer kit, 200grm is good.
That gives more flavour than the brew enhancer.
Places like morrison (here in the UK at least) and wilkos have 2 part beer kits for sale at £15 which is 38p a pint.