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Book "Brew Your Own British Real Ale" by Graham Wheeler 14 years 6 months ago #1

donnchadhc Topic Author Offline Posts: 663	Saw this in Waterstones today. Seemed good as it had a load of recipes of clones of beers I like. That was until I noticed each recipe called for an amount if white sugar!!!! Anybody have any experiences with this book?

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diablo Offline Posts: 1469	I don't rate it at all. I'm sceptical about the accuracy of the recipes. He doesn't even bother to differentiate yeast strains. In his eyes yeast comes down to dry or liquid, the former being bad. I don't think it's unusual for British breweries to use some sugar.

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&quot;donnchadhc&quot;:3nwywln3 wrote: That was until I noticed each recipe called for an amount if white sugar!!!![/quote:3nwywln3] What percentage of the grain bill are we talking here? I think anything in the realm of 5% is fine for most beers.

I've a few old English homebrew books that my dad bought in the 70s and the authors simply can't get enough of sugar! They treat it as if it were on parity with malt.

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eoinmag Offline Posts: 2784	It's a great book to get a start at English ales. They traditionally use a lot of sugar in UK due to the taxes on malt. Sugar was used as an element of most real ales as a result. As a clone book..?.. But it'll make you some seriously good beers in their own right. Sent from my GT-I9001 using Tapatalk

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&quot;EoinMag&quot;:1z7dkwad wrote: They traditionally use a lot of sugar in UK due to the taxes on malt.[/quote:1z7dkwad]History trivia: the malt tax replaced excise duty in the UK from 1830 until 1880. The 1830 Beer Licences Act stipulated that beer had to be brewed from a minimum of two bushels of malt per 36-gallon barrel and bans the use of any unmalted grain. But I guess you were allowed to top up with as much sugar as you wanted. The 1880 "Free Mash Tun Act" brought excise duty back, ended the malt tax, and permitted the use of adjunct grains again.

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diablo Offline Posts: 1469	&quot;TheBeerNut&quot;:32v2bq89 wrote: The 1880 "Free Mash Tun Act" [/quote:32v2bq89] Great name for a piece of legislation.

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