Doggers Maple Honey

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Sunday Jan 15, 2006 10:36 pm

Ok Folks, Baseline stuff, play as required. This was my killer recipe before I got heavily involved in grains. Anyone interested in brewing honey may want to give it a go. You can leave out the Maple Syrup and it will still be fine. I have added ginger to this to and it is just yum

1 Coopers kit, preferably a Canadian
1 kg Pale Malt Extract (liquiud)
250 g Crystal Malt
500 g clover honey
250 g Masple Syrup
20 g Cascade (20 min left)
28 g Saaz (1 min)

Add the Crystal Malt to a grain sock (clean nylon stocking like the type the missus wears) and add it to 8 litres of water, bring to boil. Just before boiling is reached pull out the grains and stocking and strain

Ad the kit, malt and honey and boil for 1 hr with the 8 litres of water if you can, watch for boil overs.

20 min left add the Cascade,

1 min left add the Saaz and Maple Syrup

Strain into the fermentor, top up to 23 litres, pitch yeast

Dogger

JaCk_SpArRoW · Post by **JaCk_SpArRoW** » Monday Jan 16, 2006 7:34 am

Cheers Snoop, great recipe to start with!

Ed · Post by Ed » Monday Jan 16, 2006 2:44 pm

Got any tasting/nose notes on this one DD? I'd like to give it a try.
Cheers, Ed

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Monday Jan 16, 2006 9:17 pm

hey DD,
is this the same as ''Doggers Blonde" ?

cheers
yard

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Tuesday Jan 17, 2006 3:39 am

Might be close Yard

It was kind of a base line brew

Ed,

Tasting notes,

No one left any

Dogger

Beerdrinker32 · Post by **Beerdrinker32** » Thursday Jul 06, 2006 11:45 pm

hey dogger,do you have a honey wheatbeer recipe similar to the beez neez i am drinking? leaves a subtle sweetness in my mouth with a taste like a nice homebrew i have had before

Beerdrinker32 · Wednesday Jul 12, 2006 12:48 am

keen to give this a go, what type of yeast do you recomend? was gonna get a whitelabs one and culture some up. thanks mate

Cat · Post by **Cat** » Wednesday Jul 12, 2006 2:30 pm

If it's any help, I tried this recipe with the safale us-56 yeast and have had some very tasty results

morgs · Post by **morgs** » Wednesday Jul 12, 2006 8:08 pm

hey guys, a dumb question but why do you have to boil for so long and i assume boil means 'simmer' ?

Cat · Post by **Cat** » Thursday Jul 13, 2006 4:32 pm

Some people like boiling for long periods as a sort of sanitising process - kill off any nasties there might be in the honey, etc. Of course, if you manage to pick up pasteurised honey, you'll be fine as well.

The 1 hour might be excessive, but it certainly doesn't hurt your brew either.

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Thursday Jul 13, 2006 5:13 pm

Yes, boil means somewhere between simmer and boilover (preferably avoiding the boilover!). The term that is normally used is "rolling boil". Obviously if you're going to boil your bittering hops for a certain amount of time, this is the minimum that your boil can be! :)

Cat · Post by **Cat** » Sunday Jul 16, 2006 7:38 pm

General consensus of this brew by 10 or so people at my party on friday?

"Delicious!"

Thanks again Dogger. This will be a regular brew for me.

halminator · Post by **halminator** » Thursday Jul 20, 2006 1:33 pm

Dogger - do you use the yeast that comes in the kit, or something else like safale us-56 yeast?

Also, what temps do you ferment this at? Keen to give it a shot over the weekend but I'm still fairly much a n00b so I'd appreciate the help

ACTbrewer · Post by **ACTbrewer** » Thursday Sep 07, 2006 5:30 pm

To anyone that has made this, what FG did you get?

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Friday Sep 08, 2006 11:34 am

I got 1.006 when I brewed it. Note that this one is very sweet. Too sweet for hardened beer drinkers. I give it to girls... even the ones that don't like beer love this one.

Cat · Post by **Cat** » Friday Sep 08, 2006 6:23 pm

With an OG of 1057, I had a FG of 1013 (6.4%)

I tried it again without the maple syrup (still tasty!) and had an OG of 1058 and an FG of 1019 (5.7%)

If anything I think the 2nd version was sweeter, but that may abate with time. Hope it helps!

ACTbrewer · Post by **ACTbrewer** » Saturday Sep 09, 2006 8:29 am

Thanks guys. That's a high FG Cat. Did you add more fermentables?
Mine is already at around 1012 with more to come down I reckon.

Cat · Post by **Cat** » Wednesday Sep 13, 2006 10:04 pm

After checking my brew log, turns out I subbed in another 250g of light dry malt instead of the maple syrup.

melbourne man · Post by **melbourne man** » Sunday Jan 07, 2007 1:27 pm

will this recipe work just as well with a coopers real ale kit or would the blonde be better?

Ed · Post by Ed » Sunday Jan 07, 2007 7:22 pm

Might end up too bitter using the Real Ale which comes in at 31 IBU, the Canadian is 23.5 IBU. The Coopers Lager, Draught, and Pale Ale would probably be fine as substitutes (out of the cheaper range).

Cheers, Ed