Treacle Ale

[BlackBag]

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The Cage? Pray tell me/us all . . . .





Treacle Ale, foul stuff, well mine is anyway.

[DREADSKIN]

aye, well ive been training (martial arts) for ten years and fancied a change of direction/challange. so i managed to get a cage fight (mma) organised at the next event in a local town. i will be fighting two 5 minute rounds.

then i will be having a celebratary bottle of buckfast tonic wine, and perhaps a big fat cigar!

[BlackBag]

Go for it!
The adrenalin rush you'll get at the end, especially this being your first, will be better than running a marathon. And capping it off with a bottle of Buckies? Class, pure class. I'd give the cigar a miss though

[DREADSKIN]

WELL TRIED THE TREACLE AT THE WEEKEND. THINK IM GONNA KEEP THIS ONE FOR MY MATES, AFTER THEY HAVE HAD A SKINFUL AND CANT TELL THE DIFFERENCE ANYMORE...

[TC2642]

So salty that it was undrinkable, thought about turning it into vinegar but even the fruit flies wouldn't go near it. Drainpour!

[youngbrewer]

humm i might give this ago i don't drink ale but with xmas coming up might be a nice tipple to give to mates!!

[DREADSKIN]

Well i knocked his out in thirty seconds, and then got disqualified... for an illegal knee strike to the neb... oh well.

on a lighter note tho, that same night twenty ltrs of my turbo bramley, blackberry and honey cider got a universal thumbs up, and then polished off by all my mates. my house is still a mess, and im missing lots of glasses... oh well

[Bongo]

Well i knocked his out in thirty seconds, and then got disqualified... for an illegal knee strike to the neb... oh well.

on a lighter note tho, that same night twenty ltrs of my turbo bramley, blackberry and honey cider got a universal thumbs up, and then polished off by all my mates. my house is still a mess, and im missing lots of glasses... oh well

lol sounds like you had a good time in the end fella,did you enjoy the cage

[bevanjon74]

Well finally succumbed and tried my treacle ale last nite... it was awful!
Tasted like salty licorice water... plenty of fizz but it will end up as drain cleaner...wouldn't even give it to drunk mates as SWMBO prides the soft furnishing and I think "chuckage" would ensue...
It was very much like drinking sea water, including the immediate wretch on tasting...
Oh well nothing ventured....
On to the next bonkers brew...

[kevthebootboy]

Alright fellas,
seen as the first batch of treacle ale was awful i desided to put some more together but change the recipe abit,

all messurements are approx

850g golden syrup
250g black treacle
500g dryed extra dark malt extract
the juice from 1 lemon
teaspoon of ground ginger
teaspoon of ground cinnomen
4.5 bottled water,
nottingham yeast

im laughing as i write this because the OG came out at 1.110! at 23'c

ill let you know how it turns out...

[Matt24]

Hi,

Im thinking of starting a batch of this but I cant imagine it tasting very beer like.

I was thinking of possibly chucking in half a can of a Geordie Mild kit (per demijohn) to give it a bit of a malty base and more body and then add the treacle/syrup solution.

The only thing is im thinking this might take an eternity to ferment out and be a touch on the Belgium side of strong ale!

Any thoughts? (im giving it a go anyway!)

[BlackBag]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T!

I'm sure someone somewhere has managed to make a drinkable version of this filth but lordy knows how.
Imagine living inside a light bulb for all eternity but never dying. Regular blinding light and unbearable skin burning heat. After the initial torment of believing that you're trapped in some awful dream the reality hits home that this is your life. You'd wish you were dead, and quick. Then an angel from afar appears and offers you a glass of this foul and pestilent brew, telling you to drink your fill but twice only and then shall you be released from your purgatory. One mouthful would be all it would take before you would dispatch said angel and begin what would be a more pleasurable and life fulfilling pursuit of inner bulb misery.

Doctor Foster
Went to Gloucester
And stood in a puddle of treacle ale
"Ye Gods!" he cried
Before shooting himself in the head rather than suffer the indignity of one drop of the stuff somehow managing to splash up anywhere near his gob.


Honestly this stuff is crap, and, by default, if you make it, you too become crap. Don't become the shittiest baboon in the house of wayward clogs, just don't. Got the message?

[Matt24]

Right then,

Lets give this a go...

For 2 Gal Treacle Ale

1x can Geordie Mild beer kit (couldnt get unhopped extract)
2lb Golden Syrup
1lb Black Treacle
2 tsp Citric acid per gallon (or the juice and zest of two lemons if you like messing around straining)

8 pints of water were boiled, and the syrup/treacle stirred in until dissolved. The beer kit was stood in hot water to soften and then split between two demijohns using a sanitised funnel. Four pints of the syrup/treacle solution and two tsp citric acid (or lemon juice if using) were added to each demijohn. The demijohns were vigourously shaken to dissolve the mixture, adding more hot water gradually if required. The demijohns were topped up with cold water to make up a gallon in each.
The yeast sachet supplied with the beer kit was added to each demijohn, and fermentation locks added.

[PMH0810]

I made the original recipe and can confirm it makes good drain cleaner (it's as pleasant as a post-vasectomy infection). However, using the geordie kit as a base may actually be inspired.

Let us know how you get on?

[Matt24]

I got up tis morning to discover that the bloody air locks had bubbled over and there was sticky treacle all over the work top!

I didnt invisage that it would get that agressive in a mere 11 hours or so!

Anyway, I have had to convert two syphon tubes into blow lines, and let it calm down a bit.