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Over Chistmas and Boxing day, I finished off the barrel of Jennings Cocker Hoop that I made in early November. In style and ingredients, it is quite similar to Moorhouses Pendle Witches Brew and is a smooth, rich, pale coloured, malty beer, not quite a Golden Ale, but very tasty and recommended for anybody that doesn't like IPAs or darker bitters. As it is now finished, I have now broached the barrel of Abbot Ale
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Some months ago, the manufacturers of Danstar Nottingham Yeast decided to more or double the price, which had the effect of causing all of the wholesalers to drop it as a product line and many replaced it with the Mauribrew range of yeasts. Following requests from many of its retailers and customers,
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I've just barrelled the Abbot Ale Clone as the gravity has dropped to 1010 and have noticed that the colour, whilst being more or less at the EBC of 14 that I was aiming for, is a little lighter than I had hoped
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The Courage Directors Clone recipe that I brewed a couple of weeks ago using the recipe in the first edition of Graham Wheeler's "Brew Your Own British Real Ales" is now almost 4 weeks old and is absolutely superb. It was intended as my Christmas brew, but I suspect that it may not last until then....