As featured in CAMRA’s – The Modern Homebrewer – Andy Parker & Jamil Zainasheff and sponsored by ourselves The Malt Miller.

We would highly recommend purchasing and reading this book as it feature not only a wide selection of recipes but some great knowledge and techniques from Andy and Jamil on how to brew the best beer possible at home.

This recipe was provided for the book from a professional brewer, all of the recipes were scaled by the writers to a 20ltr batch size using 75% efficiency.

Where ever possible we have matched the exact ingredients, however in some recipes slight changes may be required and volume adjustments based on ingredient available to homebrewers. Be sure to fully read the below details before purchasing so you are fully confident in the process and aware of any ingredients which are not included with this kit that you will need to add.

Weights are removed on this page due to publishing agreements but will be provided on the bags when the recipe is purchased or are present in the book for those who purchase it.

 

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Ingredients Included

Dingemans Biscuit Malt
Crisp Best (Pale) Ale Malt

Total Grain Bill 7100g

Hallertauer Magnum – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (10 grams)
Fermentis SafAle US-05 11.5g (4 packs)
Brewing Sugar (Dextrose) 1kg (1 pack)
Lactose 1kg (2 packs)

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style Barley Wine Ale
Batch Size: 20
Original Gravity: 1.128
Final Gravity: 1.040
ABV %: 11.5
IBU: 21
Mash efficiency: 75
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 67
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60

Mash notes: Water: Mash is treated with an equal amount of calcium chloride and table salt for a softer water profile. Phosphoric acid is used for a mash pH adjustment to 5.1pH

Also add Chocolate Chip Cookies (crushed) 85g/30oz to the grist Not Included

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

Magnum 10g/1.3oz @ 60 mins – This replaces Horizon Hops which are not available
Lactose 1.75Kg/3.85lb @ 15 mins
Dextrose 1Kg/2.2lb @ 15 mins

 

Yeast: Fermentis SafAle™ US-05
Fermentation temperature/steps: Pitch 4 packs (46g/1.6oz) of Fermentis SafAle™ US-05 and ferment at 19°C/68°F until gravity is stable, then add flavourings and cold crash

Secondary additions:

Flavourings (Not Included)

The original recipe used a heady mix of vanilla custard, toasted almond, hazelnut, cinnamon danish, waffle and chocolate flavourings to layer into the finished beer. Once you’ve selected your flavourings, grab a small dosing pipette and draw off a decent sized sample of the beer of a known liquid volume (e.g. into a lined glass). You can then experiment with dosing your flavourings and scale up to the full brew remaining length.

Comments:

Heretic – Monster Cookie – Chocolate Chip Barleywine

Monster Cookie is an 11.5% ABV chocolate chip cookie Barleywine made with real chocolate chip cookies. It has a strong, complex malt flavor beautifully balanced by the aromatic hops and with a mellow alcohol warming. The mouthfeel is luscious and the chocolate chip cookies play beautifully with the malt. It finishes dry and crisp without any cloyingly sweet aftertaste.

This isn’t your mom’s cookie recipe. Monster Cookie was born out of a collaboration between our crazy old mad scientist and his friends at True Symmetry Brewing. Monster Cookie is a ferociously delicious chocolate chip cookie barley wine, terrorising your senses with a flood of delicious cookies.

Yes, we put actual chocolate chip cookies in the brew. Yes, Monster Cookie is going to get you. Nobody can save you from Monster Cookie.

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