Beer Style: English and Scottish Strong Ale
Drop-In Brewing Co.’s Heart of Lothian clone
MEMBERS ONLYIn terms of style, the beer is considered a Scottish 90/- or wee heavy and uses, “Scottish Golden Promise barley malt, British floor-malted crystal, and chocolate malts, Fuggle and Kent Golding hops, and British yeast.”
Strong Scotch Ale
MEMBERS ONLYStrong Scotch Ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.074 FG = 1.020IBU = 27 SRM = 19 ABV = 7.1% Ingredients15 lbs. (6.8 kg) Golden Promise malt5 oz. (142 g) debittered black
Cromarty Brewing Co.’s Pibroch Wee Heavy clone
MEMBERS ONLYCromarty Brewing Co.’s Pibroch Wee Heavy clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.072 FG = 1.018IBU = 20 SRM = 20 ABV = 7.2% This wee heavy showcases a complex malt backbone
Dead End Brew Machine’s Curtis the Destroyer clone
MEMBERS ONLYDead End Brew Machine’s Curtis the Destroyer clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.106 FG = 1.033IBU = 55 SRM = 14 ABV = 9.6% This big barleywine is boiled for two and
Big Ben Barleywine
MEMBERS ONLYBig Ben Barleywine (3.3 gallons/12.5 L, all-grain)OG = 1.109 FG = 1.030IBU = 80+ SRM = 10 ABV = 10.5% Ingredients15 lbs. (6.8 kg) Maris Otter pale malt29 AAU Target hops (90
Gordon Strong’s English Barleywine
MEMBERS ONLY“They develop such depth when well-made, well-packaged, and well-kept, changing and maturing over the years like fine red wine.” – Gordon Strong
Sir Walter Scotch Ale
MEMBERS ONLYPete Rahn, QC Supervisor at Magic Hat Brewing Co. provides a recipe to BYO from his homebrew collection. “My brother went to Scotland for a year. I brewed this Scotch ale the day he left and conditioned it for the year he was gone.”
Parti Like It’s 1700
MEMBERS ONLYParti-gyle is an under-utilized technique in the brewing world, which is capable of producing multiple beer types during a single brew day. Here is a recipe from Aaron Hyde outlining a parti-gyle recipe which uses a 1⁄3 and 2⁄3 split of the mash, with the smaller volume Wee Heavy collected first and the larger volume Scottish Export being collected second.
Burton Ale: Style Profile
MEMBERS ONLYBurton ale was the beer that originally put Burton on the map, beer-wise. It pre-dates IPA, and was a big export beer to the Baltic countries from about 1740 to 1822.
Gordon Strong’s Burton Ale (Pre-WWI era)
MEMBERS ONLYA Burton ale is a rich, malty, bitter, warming beer that has a comforting feel about it, which does make it a good winter beer. However, it traditionally was served year-round when tastes differed.This recipe was based on Burton Ales being brewed during the pre-WWI era.
Fookin Buggerin Time Barleywine By Jeremy Cowan
MEMBERS ONLYBOS-winning homebrew recipe, brewed by Jeremy Cowan. Winner of Because Beer Homebrew Competition (Hamilton, Ontario:
500 entries)
Great Scot!
MEMBERS ONLYTraditional Scottish breweries originally drew water from underground sources. Although some no longer have private wells, soft water remains the ideal base for a malty Scotch ale.