DogbolterTest
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Dogbolter Test Project
by Matt and Susan Pinsonneault
Many years ago I had an awesome Australian beer called Dogbolter, from the Matilda Bay Brewing Co. It's a dark lager with chocolate and coffee overtones, plus a lovely caramel/toffee flavor. It's surprisingly light-bodied.
I found some recommendations for how to make an all-grain version of this beer:
Grains
7.0 lbs. Belgian Pale Malt 1.85 lbs. Pale Malt Extract 0.25 lbs. Chocolate Malt 2.5 lbs. 40 Lovibond Crystal Malt 0.25 lbs. Wheat Malt
Hops
0.75 oz. 4.4% Tettnang Pellets - 60 min 0.5 oz. 4.1% Styrian Goldings Pellets - 30 min 0.6 oz. 3.7% Hallertau Pellets - 15 min 0.4 oz. 2.5% Saaz PELLETS - right at the end
Miscellaneous
Wyeast 1056 American Ale Yeast 2 tbs. Irish Moss
Converting to extract with specialty grains:
| Amount | Ingredient |
|---|---|
| 6 lbs | plain light malt extract |
| 1-1/2 lb | 40L crystal malt |
| 1/4 lb | chocolate malt |
| 1/4 lb | wheat malt |
| 3/4 oz | Tettnang hops |
| 1/2 oz | Styrian Goldings hops |
| 1/2 oz | Hallertau hops |
| 1/2 oz | Saaz hops (finishing) |
| White Labs WLP060 American Ale Yeast Blend | |
| 1/4 tsp | calcium chloride |
| 3/4 cup | Priming sugar |
Put 1 1/2 gal cold water in the brew kettle and add the calcium chloride; stir and dissolve. Then add the crushed malts and bring to boil. When boiling begins remove the grains. Add the malt extract and Tettnang hops and boil for 60 minutes. Add Goldings hops 30 minutes before end of boil, Hallertau hops 15 minutes from end, and Saaz to minutes from end. Sparge the wort and pour it into 2 1/2 gallons of cold water in the primary.
Batch One
- 25-Jun-2011: Made 2.5-gallon half-batch. S.G. 1.042 @ 80F. Pitched at 80F. Very murky; lots of hop and grain dust.
- 27-Jun-2011: Racked off sediment into secondary. S.G. 1.010 @ 80F -- looks like fermentation is already complete in two days!
- 3-Jul-2011: Never got positive pressure in secondary; it was indeed done. Racked to bottling bucket, added 3/8 cup priming sugar, and bottled. Not as dark as Dogbolter, more coffee in the nose than Dogbolter has, but there are definite toffee overtones in the taste. Next time we should try chocolate wheat.
