{"id":339,"date":"2014-12-04T23:16:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/?p=339"},"modified":"2014-12-04T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:42:37","slug":"ringwood-old-thumper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/04\/ringwood-old-thumper\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringwood Old Thumper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Continuing the fine tradition of Using Stuff Up, we have another British clone.\u00a0 Oddly we’re almost all done with the bag Maris Otter we bought in April, which means we’re about 6 months ahead of the last bag we bought.\u00a0 Keeps things fresh.<\/p>\n

This one is another clone from Graham Wheeler’s Brew Your Own British Real Ale<\/a> (3rd Edition).\u00a0 We really wanted to do something else from Pattinson’s The Homebrewer’s Guide to Vintage Beer<\/a> but almost everything in it seems to require invert sugar<\/a> and we didn’t have 4 free hours to make any.\u00a0 No fear though, we’ll do that soon.<\/p>\n

Wheeler lists Old Thumper at 5.7% ABV, while Ringwood itself<\/a> gives 5.1% ABV.\u00a0 Old Thumper might have previously had a higher ABV, or possibly the bottled version has a higher ABV than the cask version which is sometimes the case.\u00a0 No clue about that, but we’ll take the high end.<\/p>\n

The Recipe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Ringwood Old Thumper\r\nBatch size: 5 gallons\r\nExpected OG: 1.056 (75% efficiency)\r\nExpected FG: 1.013\r\nExpected IBU: 39\r\nMash: 90m @ 151\u00b0F\r\n\r\n 9.4 lbs Munton's Maris Otter\r\n  10 oz  Briess Torrefied Wheat\r\n   7 oz  Munton's Crystal 60L\r\n   1 oz  UK Chocolate 350L\r\n\r\n   1 oz  Challenger    8.7%AA @ 90m\r\n 0.4 oz  Kent Goldings 6.5%AA @ 10m\r\n 0.6 oz  Kent Goldings 6.5%AA @  0m\r\n\r\n1 pack Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire\r\n<\/pre>\n
Our recipe has higher IBU than Wheeler specifies due to the alpha acid of the hops we had.\u00a0 We’re also using Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire yeast, a strain we’ve had great luck with in British ales.<\/p>\n
The Brew<\/strong><\/p>\n
Not much interesting here.\u00a0 We hit our pH target (5.35) using carbon filtered city water with no lactic acid required.\u00a0 Mash-in was a bit cool at 142\u00b0F but we fixed that in due time.\u00a0 The sparge yielded 8 gallons at 10\u00b0 Plato (1.040) which we boiled vigorously for 105 minutes, to 5 gallons @ 15\u00b0 Plato (1.060).\u00a0 Right on target.\u00a0 Chill, oxygenate, pitch, and done.<\/p>\n
Fermentation was very active, even with Fermcap S in the fermenter.\u00a0 We lost a pint or so to blowoff through the airlock.\u00a0 Upon kegging two weeks later, it landed at 1.012 for 6.3% ABV.<\/p>\n
And it tastes great; there’s a new-ish local fish and chips place, and what better to drink with fine cod\/haddock\/walleye than a fine real ale?\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Continuing the fine tradition of Using Stuff Up, we have another British clone.\u00a0 Oddly we’re almost all done with the bag Maris Otter we bought in April, which means we’re about 6 months ahead of the last bag we bought.\u00a0 Keeps things fresh. This one is another clone from Graham Wheeler’s Brew Your Own British … Continue reading Ringwood Old Thumper<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}