RecipeDB - Strong Scottish Ale

[brettprevans]

Strong Scottish Ale

Ale - Scottish Heavy Ale
Extract

Brewer's Notes

This is Grain & Grapes recipe. I would use Northern Brewer Hops or similar to be a bit more authentic but any general purpose bittering Hops will do. Boil time for malt is 120min to promote low levels of caramelisation. any hop character is technicaly a fault for the style. 21L and i made a 700ml starter from thw Wyeast Scottish Ale yeast.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	0.3 kg	TF Chocolate Malt
	0.3 kg	JWM Crystal 140
	0.2 kg	TF Amber Malt
	0.2 kg	Weyermann Smoked
	0.02 kg	TF Roasted Barley
	3 kg	Generic DME - Light
	1.5 kg	Generic DME - Amber

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	25 g	Pride of Ringwood (Pellet, 9.0AA%, 60mins)

Yeast

700 ml

Wyeast Labs 1728 - Scottish Ale

21L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.096 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.028 (calc)
• Bitterness 19.9 IBU
• Efficiency 100%
• Alcohol 8.89%
• Colour 66 EBC
• Batch Size 21L

Fermentation

• Primary 14 days
• Conditioning 2 days

 

[Uncle Fester]

Jeez she will be a bit sweet with no hops??? :unsure:

Festa.

 

[brettprevans]

yeah ive fixed it up. I missed adding the hops. about 26IBU should sort it out.
Its in the fermentor now. waiting to see how my first real yeast starter takes off.

 

[brettprevans]

Had a bottle last night. MAGNIFICENT!. admittedly the recipe I made had greater quantity of fermentables than the one on the DB. mine worked out to be about 10-11%.

Maginifcent dark brown colour, full body, huge caramalised malt taste without being sweet. full of flavour and almost no distinguishable hop flavour/aroma. really nice to to sit and sip away on. this will certainly be one to stash some bottles away and taste over next 2 years.

 

[GumbyOne]

Wouldn't mind trying this one but I see it has amber and smoked malt, dont these require a mash (it's listed as an extract recipe)? Cheers

 

[brettprevans]

no they dont require a mash. extract recipe means that the majority of fermentables are from malt extract.