Fullers Organic Honey Dew
Fullers Organic Honey Dew
Has anyone tried Fullers Organic Honey dew? I had some today, was on offer in sainsburys and it was delish!
Great summer ale
Interested in getting into all grain brewing and was wondering if anyone had a recipe with a similar outcome.
Have tried Waggle Dance but it's not a touch on this stuff
Chris
Great summer ale
Interested in getting into all grain brewing and was wondering if anyone had a recipe with a similar outcome.
Have tried Waggle Dance but it's not a touch on this stuff
Chris
I agree with you about the Waggle Dance. I have brewed a few Honey beers and really like them but the Waggle Dance that Youngs make is not a patch on the Waggle Dance that Vaux used to make.
I'd recommend trying Bumble Bee from the Freeminer brewery (you can only get it in Coop).
Here's a link to my Waggle Dance recipe.
and here's a link to my Bumble Bee recipe.
Yum
I'd recommend trying Bumble Bee from the Freeminer brewery (you can only get it in Coop).
Here's a link to my Waggle Dance recipe.
and here's a link to my Bumble Bee recipe.
Yum
Well this stuff, as Andy also says, is very nice. so give it a try before you blow it off.
It is nice and smooth with floral honey-like aroma's, my gf liked it, its definately one for the non ale drinkers.
I looked at eskimobob's bumble bee link and
one thing I would say is why use fairtrade honey from chille when they could use proper british stuff which is ofcourse just as fair trade.
I'm thinking maybe som lovely Heather honey, that I picked up from Driffield Farmers market, strong stuff, very floral.
Chris
It is nice and smooth with floral honey-like aroma's, my gf liked it, its definately one for the non ale drinkers.
I looked at eskimobob's bumble bee link and
one thing I would say is why use fairtrade honey from chille when they could use proper british stuff which is ofcourse just as fair trade.
I'm thinking maybe som lovely Heather honey, that I picked up from Driffield Farmers market, strong stuff, very floral.
Chris
Honey beer recipe....
(1) Take one pale ale, dark ale, any old ale, recipe.
(2) Brew as normal
(3) Prime your keg with 3-4 oz honey. Voila! Honey beer!
Job done.
Ok, more detail. Many honey beer recipes tell you to add honey to the boil. I've done this before (reluctantly) and then found that, as suspected, the honey flavour has heavily diminished if not disappeared altogether in the finished beer.
I used to make mead, and for that you never ever boil the honey because it drives off the aromatics and flavour compounds, a bit like hops. This is also what happens in beer when you add honey to the boil as you would any other sugars.
Having realised there was no evidence of honey in the beer, I just primed the barrel with it and the flavour and aroma were restored. So, save your money and add ordinary sugar to the boil, or up the grain bill, to get the extract you'd have got from the honey and just use it to prime. If you're worried about sterility, I give mine a very briefest zap in the micowave to get it to near boiling point, and that's it.
(1) Take one pale ale, dark ale, any old ale, recipe.
(2) Brew as normal
(3) Prime your keg with 3-4 oz honey. Voila! Honey beer!
Job done.
Ok, more detail. Many honey beer recipes tell you to add honey to the boil. I've done this before (reluctantly) and then found that, as suspected, the honey flavour has heavily diminished if not disappeared altogether in the finished beer.
I used to make mead, and for that you never ever boil the honey because it drives off the aromatics and flavour compounds, a bit like hops. This is also what happens in beer when you add honey to the boil as you would any other sugars.
Having realised there was no evidence of honey in the beer, I just primed the barrel with it and the flavour and aroma were restored. So, save your money and add ordinary sugar to the boil, or up the grain bill, to get the extract you'd have got from the honey and just use it to prime. If you're worried about sterility, I give mine a very briefest zap in the micowave to get it to near boiling point, and that's it.
I had nice luck putting honey in the boil with 15 minutes left (it seemed to leave some of the honey flavor).
SteveD's position seems to make a lot of sense though.
On the topic of honey ales Fullers seems to get consistently high marks from everyone who has mentioned it. I have tried to a couple of times including once at the brewery and never cared for it. It seems too sweet to me (yet I tend to be more of a malt man than a hophead). On the otherhand nobody has much good to say about Waggledance and I loved the stuff in the cask. Found Waggledance to be horrible in the bottled version here in the States.
Always the odd one out I guess.
SteveD's position seems to make a lot of sense though.
On the topic of honey ales Fullers seems to get consistently high marks from everyone who has mentioned it. I have tried to a couple of times including once at the brewery and never cared for it. It seems too sweet to me (yet I tend to be more of a malt man than a hophead). On the otherhand nobody has much good to say about Waggledance and I loved the stuff in the cask. Found Waggledance to be horrible in the bottled version here in the States.
Always the odd one out I guess.
Fullers Honey Dew is by far the best honey beer I have tasted so far, bags of honey aroma with none of the sweetness.
I wouldn't worry about sanitising honey if you get it out of a new jar. Honey itself is bacteriostatic, meaning bacteria cannot multiply in it and I asume that the folks who put the honey in the jar have to sanitise it before flogging it to the general public.
This is of course just an educated guess, being a utter rank amateur when it comes to brewing this could equally be complete hogwash
I wouldn't worry about sanitising honey if you get it out of a new jar. Honey itself is bacteriostatic, meaning bacteria cannot multiply in it and I asume that the folks who put the honey in the jar have to sanitise it before flogging it to the general public.
This is of course just an educated guess, being a utter rank amateur when it comes to brewing this could equally be complete hogwash
Checked the Bumble Bee link earlier in the thread and I have a question.
Batch Size 19 litre
Mash Temperature 64C
Pale Malt 3100g (Marris Otter)
Crystal Malt (80L) 100g
Honey 1000g (added to last 5 minutes of the boil)
Fuggles 36g @ 5.7% AA (for full 90 mins)
Goldings (EK) 35g @ 6.4% AA (for full 90 mins)
Irish Moss 5g (for last 15 mins)
How do I scale this up for a larger batch size as I'd be looking at trying a 23 or 25 litre batch? In fact it's a general question anyway with regards to scaling up or down. Are there any hard and fast rules?
Batch Size 19 litre
Mash Temperature 64C
Pale Malt 3100g (Marris Otter)
Crystal Malt (80L) 100g
Honey 1000g (added to last 5 minutes of the boil)
Fuggles 36g @ 5.7% AA (for full 90 mins)
Goldings (EK) 35g @ 6.4% AA (for full 90 mins)
Irish Moss 5g (for last 15 mins)
How do I scale this up for a larger batch size as I'd be looking at trying a 23 or 25 litre batch? In fact it's a general question anyway with regards to scaling up or down. Are there any hard and fast rules?