Tomorrow I’m brewing two recipes inspired by fictional stories - John Palmer’s “Elevenses” Oaked mild (inspired by Tolkien’s tales), and a batch of “Gunslinger’s Graf” (mentioned by Stephen King in his Dark Tower series.)
Both of these recipes include a bit of the oak-smoked malt. The graf will be interesting, since about half of the fermentables come from cider. It’s described as a dry stout with cider. I’m using the recipe from BTV, scaled down to 3 gallons. This will be a challenge for me, since I’ll need to make a batch of wort finishing at only 1.2 gallons, then topping up with 1.8 gallons of cider. Since it’s such a small batch, I’m just going to BIAB on my stovetop, which will be a first.
I should be able to pretty much run both batches simultaneously - one outside and one inside.
Anyway, as I was working through all of my spreadsheets, I realized that both of these batches will be fictional beverages brought to life. Kind of a fun concept. Both of these should be really nice session ales with plenty of character.