ArkotRamathorn
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So just joined a home brewing club and my blue moon clone attempt got 2nd place on last nights tasting (dude, nevermind it was out of 4 beers... I'm proud damnit). Septembers meeting will be judging IPAs and I have two potentials I could enter into that, but November it appears that Scotch Ale and Bourbon Barrel beers are on the docket so I want to jump on getting a strong scotch ale started and hopefully relatively aged come November.
12#Golden Promise
12oz Brown Malt
4oz Chocolate
2oz Peated(or cherrywood) smoked malt (I am undecided here, I cant imagine less than 1% could be overbearing in terms of smoke considering the generally accepted recipe for Old Chub uses something like .5# of peated smoke malt)
1oz EKG at 60 min
.5 Fuggles at 30 min
Would this be too simple of a grain bill for something like a strong scotch ale? I will be doing an extended boil like 120 minutes to get some extra kettle carmelization, hopefully start around 6 gallons and end up with 4 gallons in the fermenter. I will be using S-04 for my yeast, should 1 pack of S-04 be ok or would 2 packets be massively overpitched?
Disclaimer: I love strong scotch ales so I'm making it for myself and theres some extra motivation to brew something for others to taste.
12#Golden Promise
12oz Brown Malt
4oz Chocolate
2oz Peated(or cherrywood) smoked malt (I am undecided here, I cant imagine less than 1% could be overbearing in terms of smoke considering the generally accepted recipe for Old Chub uses something like .5# of peated smoke malt)
1oz EKG at 60 min
.5 Fuggles at 30 min
Would this be too simple of a grain bill for something like a strong scotch ale? I will be doing an extended boil like 120 minutes to get some extra kettle carmelization, hopefully start around 6 gallons and end up with 4 gallons in the fermenter. I will be using S-04 for my yeast, should 1 pack of S-04 be ok or would 2 packets be massively overpitched?
Disclaimer: I love strong scotch ales so I'm making it for myself and theres some extra motivation to brew something for others to taste.