This beer is based on Greg Noonan's 1850 ale in the book "Scottish Ales". The amber malt used is from John Palmer's "How to Brew" pg. 246. We used wet Golden Promise malt toasted for 1.5 hours. The mash tun runoff was introduced into a hot kettle and simmered for 1.5 hours to encourage carmelization. Bittering hops were put into the kettle for 45 min. No other hops or adjuncts are used, specify, no smoke or black/burnt malt.

A 4 quart starter with about 1.3 m cells /ml/o Plato was used. Fermented in open crocks, essentially as two batches of 5.5 gallons. Transferred to, when the yeast dropped, a pair of closed secondary fermentors. Held in the secondaries at 50 F until they stopped,bubbling, then the temp was dropped to 34 F and held for about 4 weeks.

Serve at 50 F with 2 volumes of CO2.