Beer and Loafing in Las Vegas - From the HBD Archive

From: avalon!jm@siemens.siemens.com (Jeff Mizener)
Subject: Old Peculier - New Peculiar
Date: 1992-05-08 21:18:29 GMT

In response to Scott's (sfw@trionix.com) question about obtaining treacle to imitate Old Peculier (a traditional Yorkshire Ale), I thought the following to be of general interest: You can find treacle at fancy grocery stores, or from American Brewmaster in Raleigh (mailorder). The treacle I used was made by Lyons, the same people that make Golden Syrup. If you can't find treacle, try unsulphured molasses (find treacle...). I have made a stab at O.P. based on the Elbro Nertke Brown Ale recipe from Papazian: New Peculiar 6.6# dark extract 1/2# crystal malt 1/4# black patent malt 1.5oz fuggles 45min boil (pellets) 0.5oz fuggles 10 min boil (pellets) 2 tsp 'water crystals' 1 tsp irish moss Whitbread Ale Yeast 1/2C black treacle Put malts into a boiling bag and place into 2.5g cold water. Bring to boil and remove, sloshing about and draining well (as one would with a [giant] tea bag). Add extract, 1.5oz fuggles and boil 45 minutes. During the last 10 minutes add the remaining hops. Cool (I take my pot outside and put it in a baby bathtub full of circulating cold water from the garden hose). Rack into a carboy and add yeast (I started the yeast with cooled-boiled water but recently I have taken to putting the yeast directly into the warm wort). I let it go for 4 days then racked into a second carboy where it sat for another week before bottling. Bottle as usual. SG: 1.055, FG: 1.016 Result: very nice, matured well. Dark but not black, could use some more body, but definitely not thin, lightly burnt taste (my wife's words) that I attribute to the black patent malt. Tasty. Not lawnmower beer. And it was only my 4th batch... I now have a treacle amber ale fermenting (New Peculier Lite?) in the secondary. Bottling is scheduled for this weekend. Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's. Jeff ======================================================== Jeff Mizener / Siemens Energy & Automation / Raleigh NC jm@sead.siemens.com / Intelligent SwitchGear Systems ======================================================== (reply to this address, not the one in the header!!)

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