RecipeDB - Old Speckled Hen (Clone)

[jasonharley]

Old Speckled Hen (Clone)

Ale - English Ordinary Bitter
All Grain

Brewer's Notes

The Treacle is really Golden Syrup.

Mash at 67 deg C for 60min
Mash out 20 min at 74 deg C
Triple Sparge with balance water at 75 deg C

Ferment at 19 deg C

Go easy on the gas..... keg and gas it to around 50kpa slowly over a week.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	4.2 kg	Bairds Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt
	0.6 kg	TF Caramalt
	0.2 kg	BB Wheat Malt
	0.4 kg	Treacle

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	50 g	Goldings, East Kent (Pellet, 5.0AA%, 1mins)
	40 g	Challenger (Pellet, 7.5AA%, 60mins)
	20 g	Challenger (Pellet, 7.5AA%, 15mins)
	20 g	Goldings, East Kent (Pellet, 5.0AA%, 15mins)

Yeast

100 ml

Wyeast Labs 1275 - Thames Valley Ale

Misc

0.5 tablet

Whirfloc

22L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.055 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.014 (calc)
• Bitterness 48.9 IBU
• Efficiency 70%
• Alcohol 5.33%
• Colour 26 EBC
• Batch Size 22L

Fermentation

• Primary 6 days
• Secondary 14 days

 

[Guysmiley54]

How did this one turn out?

The ibu seems very high for an ordinary bitter but there is also a massive whack of caramalt to balance it out. Would treacle work instead of golden syrup? I've always wanted to try black treacle in an english style ale.

 

[gava]

have you tasted this yet?