Wee Heavy/old Ale

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Wee Heavy/old Ale Ingredients

10 lb 2-row pale malted barley	1/2 oz Willamette
2 lb 80 Lovibond crystal malt,	1/2 oz Hallertauer
Smoked	1/4 oz Cascade
8 oz Wheat malt	3/4 c Light dry malt extract
1 oz Chocolate malt	(priming)
1 lb Brown sugar (in boil)	Wyeast 1098 "English"
1 oz Northern Brewer (7.4 AAU)	(Whitbread) ale yeas
(boiling)

Instructions for Wee Heavy/old Ale

Heat 18 quarts of mash water to 140 degrees, ph 5.3. Mash-in for 5 min- utes at 130 degrees. Continue without a protein rest. Starch conversion of 60 minutes, 158-150 degrees. Mash-out for 5 minutes at 168 degrees. Sparge with 5 gallons water at 168 degrees, ph 5.7. Add brown sugar and boil for 90 minutes. Add boiling hops at 30 minutes. Dry hop with 1/2 ounce each of Willamette and Hallertauer 3 days after pitching, and bottled 4 weeks later. Its confession time. This was intended to be a Scottish Wee Heavy, but works much better as an Old Ale. I just havent quite captured that uniquely malty characteristic of Scotch ales, but Im still trying. I tried smoking the crystal malt over a peat fire, which really wasnt terribly successful in imparting peaty flavors to the malt. Next time Ill get the peat really soggy; perhaps that will work better. Its rich, vinous, with complex port-like ethers and not a hint of astrin- gency (a common hard-water problem) or off-flavors. Next time I brew it, though, Ill delete the wheat malt (plenty of head, for the style, with- out it) and the brown sugar (the vinousness is too much for a Scotch ale), substitute 2 pounds dextrine malt or flaked barley (still mulling this over) for an equal weight of pale malt, and smoke the cystal more heavily. Original Gravity: 1.070 Final Gravity: 1.020 Primary Ferment: 4 weeks Recipe By : Serving Size: File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

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