Chocolate Biscuit

Made with Chocolate Malt, this dark beer is very reminiscent of the old style chocolate ales.

Ingredients

Ingredients are listed as a percentage of the full grist, followed by example measures for a small 5 litre brew. Hops and additives for the boil are then listed, with the percentage values this time calculated against the total grist weight. Again example values are given for a small 5 litre brew.

Grist Ingredients

Pale malt

40 %

417 g

Wheat malt

40 %

417 g

Crystal malt

8 %

83 g

Amber malt

6 %

58 g

Chocolate malt

6 %

58 g

Boil Ingredients (Percentage values proportionate to total grist)

Challenger Hops (90 mins)

1.1 %

12 g

Golden Syrup

4.0 %

42 g

Challenger Hops (15 mins)

0.4 %

4 g

Beer volume

These measures should produce approximately 5.0 litres (8.8 pints) of beer using about 4.3 litres of mash water and about 3.0 litres of sparge water.

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