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?