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Abbot Ale Clone Recipe

Posted on Sunday Nov 27 13:25:00 UTC 2011

I've tried several times to find a Clone Recipe of Greene King Abbot Ale, but none of the editions of Graham Wheeler's "Brew Your Own British Real Ale" have a version and the one listed in Dave Line's "Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy" contains ingredients that don't correspond with those on Greene King's own website.

On the labels on Abbot bottles, Greene King admit to using Pale Malt, Amber Malt and Crystal Malt and on their website they say that First Gold, Challenger and Fuggles as their hops.

With this in mind, and making use of Graham Wheeler's "Beer Engine", I combined the ingredients to try and obtain a beer which  had a starting gravity of 1049°, an EBC of 14 (decided on by holding a bottle up to the light and comparing it (from memory) to my colour charts) and an EBU bitterness of around 28 (decided on because I don't really like over bitter beers).

My recipe came out as:

Grain EBC
 Weight
Maris Otter Pale Malt
 5  4750g
Amber Malt
  60 250g
Crystal Malt
  120 35g

The Hops were added as follows:

 Hop AA%
 Weight
 Boil Time
Whole First Gold
 8.3%  15g  90 mins
Whole Challenger  7.6%  15g  90 mins
Whole Fuggles
  3.9%  10g  15 mins

It was mashed for 90 minutes at 65°C and I achieved a 75% efficiency. It is currently fermenting in the back of the shop and I expect it to be ready just in time for New Year.
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