This is my first attempt at a non-ingredient kit beer and the recipe doesn’t give exact malts, hops or amounts so a first picking proper ingredients for a style as well. Was fun! You can find the original recipe for Goat Scrotum Ale in The Complete Joy of Homebrewing or anywhere online, so I’m only giving the recipe I used. Goat Scrotum is a Porter brewed with as many or as few special ingredients that the brew wants, each one has actually been used in the brewing of Porters for hundreds of years according to the book. Try to find the this bad boy from a commercial brewer!
Crushed Grains:
1 lb Simpson’s extra dark crystal malt
1/4 lb Simpson’s black malt
1/4 lb Simpson’s roasted barley
Fermentables:
3.52 lbs John Bull plain dark malt extract syrup
3.52 lbs John Bull plain dark malt extract syrup
1 c. dark brown sugar
1 c. blackstrap molasses
2 tsp gypsum
1 lb corn sugar
“Special” Fermentables:
~4 oz. chopped ginger
2.2 in. brewing licorice
9 dried Thai peppers
1/4 c. juniper berries (suppose to be slightly crushed, but I forgot)
2.85 oz. unsweetened Baker’s chocolate
Hops:
1 oz. Northern Brewer Pellets (60 min)
1/2 oz. Fuggle Pellets (60 min)
1/4 oz. Fuggle Pellets (2 min)
Yeast:
Wyeast British Ale
The original gravity was waaaaaaaaay off…. It read 1.120. Which would be insane! Not sure what happened, but its fermenting fine now so there is no way it was that strong. Especially since it only really had 7 lbs of malt and a pound of sugar. Not sure if some of the other stuff didn’t mix well and was sucked in the siphon changing the density or what. All that matters is that it successfully ferments. Hopefully will bottle in a few days. Can’t wait to try this in a few weeks, will be mind blowing I’m sure.
