Blind Toad

Source: Absent
Recipe added: 05/08/01
Email: Absent@awaywiththepixies.com

the local brewing shop has a terrible selection - it's a question of going in there and seeing what you can make out of whatever stock there is. It's a very dark ale with a strong, pleasant floury note. After three months in the barrel I bottled 20 pints, some of which survived for eighteen months and had turned into something wonderful. It's named in honour of a long dead pet.

Specifics

Recipe type: Partial Mash
Batch Size: 5 imp gallon
Starting Gravity:
Finishing Gravity:
Time in Boil: 2h
Primary Fermentation: about 2 weeks
Secondary Fermentation: six weeks

Ingredients:

2lb Spraymalt light
6lb spray malt dark
1 can Diastatic malt extract
1 cup roast barley
1lb Crystal
2tsp sea salt
Edme Yeast cultured over night.
1kg wheat - without anything to crush it, I soaked this
overnight, boiled it for 20mins, rolling pinned it and then baked it dry in the oven until it was lightly toasted.
2 Oz Goldings 120min
1/2 oz goldings 15min
1/4 oz goldings into the fermentation bin

Procedure:

Mash the wheat with the DME and the crystal in one gallon, go for a temperature a little on the high side. Run off the wort and add to the boiler with the spray malt and add first batch of hops plus the roast barley. Add the second batch of hops at 1 3/4 h and give it another 15mins. Put the 1/4 oz into the fermentation bin and run the hot wort onto it. Top it up to 5 gal, pitch the yeast asap.

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