Ashes Ale

[manson81]

So, I wouldn't mind making something to give to my pommy mates after their latest humiliation!

What are your thoughts? English yeast overpowered by Aussie Malt and Hops?

Aussie something overpowering English something is what I'm after!

We could call it Alistair Cook Fail Ale.

 

[fletcher]

aussie pale malt - 92%
aussie wheat malt - 8%
english yeast of your choice. perhaps windsor cos it falters early.
pride of ringwood to 40-45IBU to overpower the **** out of it.
ferment at 16C
gedidindya

i actually made one similar recently. same ingredients. called it the 'pretty ordinary' bitter.

http://sexyfuntimebrewing.weebly.com/pretty-ordinary-bitter.html

 

[TimT]

Ale with smoked malt for an 'ashes' taste?

 

[TimT]

Alistair Cook Fail Ale.

Or how about

Incredibly Bitter English Ale

 

[eungaibitter1]

Trotting Home
Sorry Swann
or Rooted Eleven

 

[TimT]

Grab some tasty native plant, like the native finger lime, to add to the brew, adding a twist of fruity spiciness to offset the bitterness of the hops.

Then you can call it Bitter and Twisted.

 

[MCHammo]

Add a bit of pomegranate to make it a bitter pommy

 

[philmud]

I quite like it when the Barmy Army take the piss out if our convict heritage. After all, they're the dumb fuckers who sent their criminals to a place with far better weather!
Anyway, perhaps "convict's revenge" could be an option. I'd use Coopers yeast, because yeast is the "animus" of a beer, and this is severely lacking in the Poms. Tell your mates the water in the beer represents the English performance; Thin, common and turns to steam when the heat is applied.

 

[TimT]

Anyway, perhaps "convict's revenge" could be an option. I'd use Coopers yeast, because yeast is the "animus" of a beer, and this is severely lacking in the Poms. Tell your mates the water in the beer represents the English performance; Thin, common and turns to steam when the heat is applied.

Actually, 'barm' was an old term for yeasty froth that formed at the top of fermenting ales, which was often used to prime bottles - Coopers style. So you could just call it

Barmy Army Beer. Or maybe

Just Plain Barmy.

 

[pomsaleius]

Well Tim, you Aussies may be temporarily better at cricket, but maybe I shouldn't remind you that we poms still have way more Nobel Laureates per capita.
By the way, nice one about the weather. We all really enjoyed that week over 40 degrees, didn't we. I just love having to smother myself and my kids with chemicals before daring to leave the house. The good thing about rain is it doesn't give you cancer, and you can drink it. If you make a good Aussie beer (a rarity) then it should probably be very dry.
I know I'll get flamed for this, but who cares. All meant in good humour!

 

[StalkingWilbur]

A Pom whinging about Australia while living here, that's unusual.

 

[pomsaleius]

That's a retort, not a whinge.

 

[philmud]

There, there Kevin. Have a beer.

 

[TimT]

The weather really was a shocker this week. Lived most of the time under the couch with the cats.

 

[pomsaleius]

There, there Kevin. Have a beer.

Yep, you're probably right. I'm probably over reacting. I'm sure language like "dumb fuckers" is not meant to sound offensive in any way.

 

[philmud]

Yep, you're probably right. I'm probably over reacting. I'm sure language like "dumb fuckers" is not meant to sound offensive in any way.

Well, no. But if you'd like to take offense on behalf of the Barmy Army, a notorious pack of joyous trolls whose primary purpose seems to be to take the piss, then be my guest.

 

[pomsaleius]

Well they certainly seem to have got to you. Whatever. I'm just an occasional cricket fan who loves the rare occasions when we do beat the Aussies, as I suffered so much stick from my Australian friends back in the UK over the years, who love to rub it in every time Australia beat us. I'm happy to put up with the friendly ribbing, but just don't like it when it starts turning into something more nasty.
I'm not a member of the Barmy Army (unless simply being English makes you that by default. I could be counted as part of the Toon Army, but that's different). I've never deported any convicts anywhere, nor was I involved in the attack on the Eureka Stockade, I never sent any troops over the top at Gallipoli, introduced rabbits to Australia, or anything else you might want to blame on any of my countrymen.
But let's drop this now and move on, eh?
Tim, I hope you produce a beautiful English Old Ale, that you age for a year or so, and then when you taste it during the next Ashes, it knocks you for six!

 

[DU99]

a nice BPA wouldn't go astray. :icon_offtopic:

 

[philmud]

Well they certainly seem to have got to you.

No, like I said earlier, I like them. They have a sense of humour.

 

[adryargument]

By the way this threads going you should call the the beer 'Kevin Hawley'.
Once you bottle them it shouldbe easy enough to 'smash em down'

 

[bradsbrew]

We could call it Alistair Cook Fail Ale.

Guys let not make this into personal attacks, surely we can keep it nice. As for the barmy army, well I was sitting near them at the gabba test and they really did raise the atmosphere and the banter was hilarious.

Back to the OP
Could always make a cock ale, sort of fits in with "Alistair Cock Ale"

 

[lukiferj]

Alistair's cock ale. Sounds weak 2% abv?

Anyhoo. Love the cricket. As much as I hate the poms (in a purely sporting sense), the barmy army really take the crowd support to another level. Hilariously amazing silongs and just there to have a good time. If I'm going to the cricket, always try and sneak a seat near them because it's so much fun.

Bad luck for the series and summer now but im sure they'll be back.

 

[lukiferj]

Songs that is.

 

[TimT]

I don't really follow the cricket Kevin but I remember back when Australia was regularly thrashing England in the cricket and (looks furtively around) it was kind of a relief when we actually lost.

Not so much of a relief when we lost again. And again. And again. And again. And again! It's nice to have a bit of variety.... and to feel that there really is a competition between the two teams in the sport which I-don't-really-follow-but-can't-help-but-noticing....

I guess the grand old tradition of sledging in cricket must go back at least as far as the original Ashes competition. Burning a wicket to symbolise 'the death of English cricket'? Pretty wicked. In a way I suppose Manson's idea for this beer is a way of carrying on this tradition.

 

[slcmorro]

Alistairs Cooked?

 

[billygoat]

A couple of years ago I visited and toured the Marstons brewery in Stoke on Trent. At the time they were a sponsor of the English cricket team and England had beaten Australia in the Ashes a couple of months earlier.
The marketing manager at Marstons was giving me plenty about the cricket and loved showing me his favourite poster.

 

[billygoat]

He also gave me a pump clip to bring home, the same as this one.

 

[Tahoose]

Hope you didn't stay in stoke on Trent too long billy goat, what a miserable place, (apart from the oatcakes) I was born there and left when I was ten so I should know

Marstons make some nice ales though, marstons pedigree is my favourite, 4.5% abv but feels like you have been drinking 8% after a couple

 

[jyo]

How about something nice and golden with roasted macadamias? You know, hard Aussie nuts.

 

[Samuel Adams]

Making it 5.0% with 11 ingredients would fit nicely, albeit gimmicky !