historic ales of scotland: ebulum black ale
December 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments
A hearty blog post containing a good review of Ebulum Elderberry Black Ale. The poster refers to having found it at the LCBO in Canada over Christmas, so I asked my boyfriend (a Canadian) to try and find some for me. He looked at length, but never found any. I suppose it's for the best... I wanted to try it based on teh review, but I'm not terribly into dark beers, so it may have sounded better than it would have tasted. :)
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1 Elijah // Sep 4, 2008 at 8:02 am
Im a homebrewer, i just picked about 10lbs of elderberries and am about to make a dark beer from them- trying to find info on beers like that or recipes ’cause im just wingin’ it on this one.
thanks
Eli
2 Steve // Sep 10, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I winged it too.
Here is my recipe:
1 lb black barley malt
1 lb biscuit malt 50L
steep above for 30 min at 170F
7 lb dark malt LME
1 lb Muntons Hopped Dark Dry, color 57 (add this at 5 min)
0.5 o Perle hops 60 min
1.0 Sterling hops 5 min
Safale US 05 dry ale yeast 11.5g
1 cup red elderberries 60 min
gypsum and irish moss for clarification
Instead of crushing the grain, I ran it through the blender coarsely.
The beer is almost black, with a lovely tan head. Extremely refreshing. Porterish, but to me, not at all heavy. Next time I will increase the elderberries as one cup gave just a hint of flavor.
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