The Beast of London

Name
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The Beast of London is a reference to The Beast of London Below in Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere.

From the Novel
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"...One night in December the beast runned away, ran into the Fleed Ditch, and vanished into the sewers. And it fed on the sewage and it grew, and it grew. And it got meaner, and nastier. They'd send in hunting parties after it from time to time."
The Marquis pursed his lips. "It must have died three hundred years ago."
Old Bailey shook his head. "Things like that, they're too vicious to die. Too old and big and nasty."

From the Original Recipe
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This is kind of a hybrid English/American barleywine

Ingredients in original recipe for reference
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15 lbs. (6.8 kg) English pale ale malt
1 lb. (454 g) aromatic malt
0.5 lb. (227 g) Carapils® malt
1 lb. (454 g) crystal malt (65 °L) (preferably English)
0.5 lb. (227 g) CaraMunich® III malt
1 lb. (454 g) raw brown sugar
28 AAU Magnum hops (60 min.) (2 oz./57 g at 14% alpha acids)
4.5 AAU Fuggle hops (10 min.) (1 oz./28 g at 4.5% alpha acids)
6 AAU Cascade hops (5 min.) (1 oz./28 g at 6% alpha acids)
2 oz. (57 g) East Kent Goldings hops (whirlpool)
2 oz. (57 g) Styrian Goldings hops (dry hop)
Wyeast 1335 (British Ale II), Omega Yeast OYL-013 (British Ale VI), or LalBrew Nottingham yeast
3⁄4 cup corn sugar (if priming)

Stats from recipe
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OG = 1.097 FG = 1.028
IBU = 70 SRM = 17 ABV = 9.3%

Ingredients from Micro Homebrew and Downsized for Half Batch:
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8 lbs -- Thomas Fawcett Pale Pearl (2.1-2.9°L)
0.5 lbs -- Aromatic 15.5-23°L (Dingemans)
0.25 lbs -- Carapils 1.3-1.5°L (Breiss)
0.5 lbs -- Crystal 77°L (Crisp) ---- NOTE: 65 is what is called for, ask about it.
0.25 lbs -- CaraMunich III 53-60°L (Weyermann)
0.5 lbs -- Brown Sugar
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14 AAU Magnum
2.25 AAU Fuggle
3 AAU Cascade
1 oz East Kent Goldings
1 oz Styrian Goldings -- dry hop, whole

Notes from recipe formulation:

• This will need a yeast starter even though it is a half batch because it's such a big beer.
  
• I doubt they have whole styrian golding hops but I'm afraid of the effect of using the pellets for dry hopping, it seems impossible to filter well enough, it will get into the final beer. Maybe cold crashing before bottling could help.
  
• I am upping my efficiency to 65%. I've gotten that only twice but I don't want to distort the recipe too much from the original, especially for this big of a beer. I will just... try to do a good job.
  
• The recipe says to let the beer rise up to 70 fermentation temp after 3 days.