Gales Prize Old Ale

[GMK]

Hi Brew Gurus,

I would like a recipe/info from anyone who has brewed a clone of

Gales Prize Old Ale

Commercial Description:
Bottle Conditioned.
Ingredients: Maris Otter and minute amounts of black malt; Fuggles, Goldings and Challenger.

It is reddish in color with hops and apple fruit on the nose, spicy and malty in the mouth, and a dry, even tart fruity finish with hints of raisins and apple.
The slow work of the yeast in the bottle may increase the alcohol content to 12% or even more. After several years of aging Prize Old Ale gains a more complex palate with Calvados like character. It is said that Prize Old Ale is at its best after 20 years of maturing.
Bottled as Milestones Pale Ale to celebrate the opening of the Milestones Museum.

Thanks

 

[neonmeate]

havent brewed it but have drunk a couple of bottles of it [plus a few other Gales beers] - either you want to culture up the original Gale's yeast from somewhere or add some brett or something - it's a funky yeast, quite sour.
good luck, i've been meaning to do something similar for a while myself - tried to exhume some yeast last year from an old bottle of Gales Jubilee but nothing came of it.

 

[albrews]

Hi Brew Gurus,

I would like a recipe/info from anyone who has brewed a clone of

Gales Prize Old Ale

Commercial Description:
Bottle Conditioned.
Ingredients: Maris Otter and minute amounts of black malt; Fuggles, Goldings and Challenger.

It is reddish in color with hops and apple fruit on the nose, spicy and malty in the mouth, and a dry, even tart fruity finish with hints of raisins and apple.
The slow work of the yeast in the bottle may increase the alcohol content to 12% or even more. After several years of aging Prize Old Ale gains a more complex palate with Calvados like character. It is said that Prize Old Ale is at its best after 20 years of maturing.
Bottled as Milestones Pale Ale to celebrate the opening of the Milestones Museum.

Thanks

hi, dave lines book "brewing beers like those you buy" has a recipe without all the brewing science, but i have not tried it,
for 10litres gales prize old ale
3.25 kg crushed pale malt

0.5 kg crushed crystal malt

30 gm crushed black malt

125 gm molasses

120 gm goldings hops

30 gm wine yeast

og 1100, several months fermenting, store for 6 months before bottling,mature for 18 months before sampling.

cheers alan

 

[neonmeate]

oh, i did brew this a few years back
http://www.ratebeer.com/Recipe.asp?RecipeID=55

but it came out a lot darker and more bitter than POA, not really a clone at all. but it was good! then there was the version of that with added beetroots... malnourished can tell you about that.

 

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I'll check with an Ex-Gales brewer I am good freinds with. Will see how I go,

Scotty

 

[kook]

If you're going to try this I'd recommend splitting it up into several fermenters for the first batch and trying different fermentation methods such as using a wine yeast, wild yeasts etc. Also, remember that most gales bottled beers such as prize old ale are pretty much completely flat with no carbonation. They also cork the beers like wine, uncaged and uncapped. That should give you an idea of how little carbonation exists.

I've tried vintages from various years and they tend to develop more sherry like flavours over the years as oxidisation increases.