Description
This all grain recipe kit is a clone version of the popular beer brewed in Witney Oxfordshire. This distinct ruby beer’s sweet caramel and fruity aromas tease the taste buds. Brewed with smooth and rich Chocolate and Crystal malts & a blend of Fuggles and Styrian Golding hops.
Ingredients Included
Crisp Pale Ale Malt (4300 grams)
Crisp Dark Crystal Malt (360 grams)
Crisp Chocolate Malt (100 grams)
East Kent Goldings ( GOLDINGS ) Pellets (14 grams)
Fuggles Pellets (14 grams)
Cascade Pellets (16 grams)
Celeia (Styrian Goldings) Pellets (64 grams)
WLP023 Burton Ale Yeast (1 packs)
Method
Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): Special Bitter or Best Bitter
Batch Size: 22
Original Gravity: 1046
Final Gravity: 1012
ABV %: 4.5
IBU: 35
THE MASH
Temperature °C: 67
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C: 75
Out time (mins): 10
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60
Additions and timing:
14g EKGoldings @ 60min
14g Fuggles @ 60min
Secondary additions and timing:
16g Cascade @ 15min
64g Styrian Goldings @ 15min
Yeast: Burton Ale Yeast WLP023
Fermentation temperature/steps: 18°C 10 days, cold crash 4 days if possible
Comments:
This distinct ruby beer’s sweet caramel and fruity aromas tease the taste buds. Brewed with smooth and rich Chocolate and Crystal malts & a blend of Fuggles and Styrian Golding hops. Expect a delicious full-bodied toffee flavour and a fruity finish of figs, raisins and dates. Hugely popular with real drinkers all over the country, well now you can attempt to brew this yourself at home.
timtoos (verified owner) –
Brewed this up in early March 2020. Brew day went great, hitting my numbers, although mash pH was higher than expected at 5.52.
Left in FV for about 8 days and fermentation was complete. The fermentation temperature was a bit up and down as it was so warm. Overall though it wasn’t too bad but it’s worth noting.
Racked to keg and to be honest after a few weeks I still didn’t rate it.
Anyway, a few months later and still not rating it I gave it to the in-laws and put onto hand pull for them.
Wow, what a lovely drop now. Devastated I gave it away. It’s a drink where you can sink a few on a nice sunny day, at 4.5%. Lovely clear amber red colour, enough bitterness to keep you wanting more. Note, it’s so much better served from cask using a beer engine.
IMO it’s not really like Hobgoblin but a damn fine beer along the same lines. Maybe its the water profile I used which makes the difference.
Anyway, in summary, a cracking beer, don’t expect Hobgoblin but instead an equally, if not better, beer.
Clobber (verified owner) –
This turned out more like a porter style beer for me. One of the best porters I’ve made mind you. The fermentation was insane, bubbling so hard it sounded like it was boiling, the krausen went up my blowoff tube and out of the bubble trap jar, fortunately no infections. I disagree with timtoos though that it’s more of a winter drink for me. Worth leaving for 5-6weeks