Permalink Reply by vdog on August 24, 2010 at 4:42pm
Interesting - I've not used pale choc without the regular choc, so you could well be right about the flavour. I still think for the sake of colour you'd want to up the dark stuff though, if you have/can get some.
Just started boiling my take on a Vienna lager without vienna malt. Re-jigged the recipe after finding out that Wigram makes theirs with Gladfield Ale Malt for the base.
Viennoiserie
1.050 OG
1.014 SG
Gladfield Ale Malt 2.102 kg 42.9 %
Gladfield Pilsener Malt 1.812 kg 37.0 %
Global Munich Malt 0.760 kg 15.5 %
Light Crystal 0.163 kg 3.3 %
Chocolate Malt 0.064 kg 1.3 %
NZ B Saaz (Motueka) 7.1 % 17 g 18.1 Loose Pellet Hops 60 Min From End
NZ B Saaz (Motueka) 7.1 % 24 g 6.7 Loose Pellet Hops 15 Min From End
Czech Saaz 4.1 % 15 g 1.7 Loose Pellet Hops 5 Min From End
Mashed at 65C, pitching Wyeast 2478 at 7C, warm up to 10C.
Just pitched a jar of slurry of WY1968 from an IPA bottled yesterday.
This one's a Pommy Ale of some sort.
23.5 litres OG 1.048 About 40 IBU
454.00 gm Lyle's Golden Syrup [Boil for 10 min] Extract 10.08 %
3500.00 gm Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 77.71 %
200.00 gm Crystal Malt - 60L (Thomas Fawcett) (118.2Grain 4.44 %
200.00 gm Crystal Medium (145.0 EBC) Grain 4.44 %
100.00 gm Wheat Malt, Dark (Weyermann) (13.8 EBC) Grain 2.22 %
50.00 gm Carafa Special T2 (1150.0 EBC) Grain 1.11 %
40.00 gm Challenger '06 [7.90 %] (60 min) (First Wort) Hops 34.7 IBU
20.00 gm Styrian Goldings [2.30 %] (10 min) Hops 1.5 IBU
30.00 gm Fuggles [4.00 %] (10 min) Hops 4.3 IBU
1 Pkgs London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968) Jar of yeastcake.
The Lyle's was to lighten the body of the beer somewhat after Mrs warra complained that all my beers have too much body. I don't agree, but we need to humour our better halves for the sake of peace.
Knocking this out either before or just after the weekend, something easy for my mates to drink at my bday whilst at the same time cleaning out a few ingrediants - im really trying to get through all the old malt that I have lying around so I can get some fresh stuff cranking again!! Its actually quite a task but the good thing about it is it has me brewing different types of beers again!
1.6kg Global Pilsner
900g Global Munich
500g Golden Promise
300g Global Cara Dark
150g Cara Amber
60g Roast Barley
220g Cane Sugar