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Theakston's Old Peculier
roguejim:
Anyone have a clone recipe? I recall years ago Dan Listermann swearing by Munton's Gold dry yeast as the perfect yeast for Old Peculier...
erockrph:
I haven't brewed it myself yet, but Old Peculier is one of my all-time favorite beers and I plan on trying to clone it myself in the future. I ran across an blog where he used the Chimay yeast and swears it's dead-on. Here's his tasting notes from his brew and a link to the recipe on hopville (It's an extract recipe, so YMMV). If you give it a go, please post your results because I absolutely love this beer.
http://www.britishbrewer.com/2010/02/recipe-theakston-old-peculier-version-1/
http://hopville.com/recipe/161665/old-ale-recipes/theakston-old-peculier-clone
Joe Sr.:
Thanks for the links. A very interesting read.
It's been a long time since I've had Old Peculiar, so I have no recent taste to go by but the use of Belgian yeast just strikes me as odd.
I think there are plenty of English ale strains that give a fruity character.
Between the dark candi sugar and the Belgian yeast, it just seems Belgian to me.
I would lean more towards treacle and an English yeast, but I have not brewed this recipe and it may be just fine as is.
Delo:
Its been a long time since I've had it too. The second batch I brewed was a clone of it. I dont remember how close it was to the original but I do remember it came out great. I will look for the recipe when I get home and post it if I can find it. I know I used molasses and the yeast was maybe WLP013 London Ale Yeast. I've been meaning to rebrew it or brew another version for years now. If you do brew it, please update this post.
Delo:
Here is the recipe that I found. It was an extract kit that is supposed to be an Old Peculier Clone(I dont remember where I got it from). The measurements of the specialty grains were given in cups not by weight.
6lbs Dark dry malt extract
1 Cup Chocolate Malt
3 Cups Crystal 60 L
1 Cup Roasted Barley
2 oz Progress Pellets 45 min
.5 oz Fuggle Plugs 2 minutes
4 – 8 oz Molasses End of boil
Danstar Windsor yeast
I used 4oz of light molasses. If I brewed this again, I would use treacle. It is easy to have molasses overpower the beer. Like I said, I dont remember how close it was to Old Peculier, and I dont know enough to tell if its going to be close by looking at the recipe but I'm sure others can. I hope this helps. If you do find a recipe that works please post it. I would like to brew an old peculier clone but I unfortunately dont have the time for the beers i already have lined up in my mind to brew. Summer may be over before I get to brew my summer ale.
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