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Peter's Wicked Balls

Peter's Wicked Balls

Specialty Beer • All Grain • 7 gal

Herbaljoe

Something like Pete's Wicked Ale crossed with Arrogant Bastard.

February 3, 2008 am 11:52am

4.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (All Grain, 7 gal)

  • 11.5 lbs American 2-row

    American 2-row

    Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt

  • 2 lbs Belgian Aromatic

    Belgian Aromatic

    Imparts a big malt aroma. Use in brown ales, Belgian dubbels and tripels.

  • 1 lbs Belgian Special B

    Belgian Special B

  • .5 lbs Crystal Malt 120°L

    Crystal Malt 120°L

    Pronounced caramel flavor and a red color. For stouts, porters and black beers.

  • .25 lbs Weyermann CaraMunich® II; Weyermann

    Weyermann CaraMunich® II; Weyermann

    Provides body. For Oktoberfest, bock, porter, stout, red, amber and brown ales.

  • .25 lbs Weyermann CaraRed®; Weyermann

    Weyermann CaraRed®; Weyermann

    Red Ale, Red Lager, Scottish Ale, Amber Wheat, Bock Beer, Brown Ale, Alt Beer

  • .19 lbs American Chocolate Malt

    American Chocolate Malt

    Use in all types to adjust color and add nutty, toasted flavor. Chocolate flavor.

  • .75 oz Magnum - 13.1 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Magnum

    Bred in 1980 at Germany’s Hüll Hop Research Center, this high-alpha variety is renowned for its exceptionally large, heavy cones. Hallertauer Magnum delivers excellent yields and, like many Hüll-developed hops, boasts a strong resistance to disease.

  • 2 oz Hallertauer Mittelfrüher - 4.4 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Hallertauer Mittelfrüher

    Fine, 'Noble'.

  • 2 oz Hallertauer Mittelfrüher - 4.4 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Hallertauer Mittelfrüher

    Fine, 'Noble'.

  • 1 oz Whirlfloc for 5 minutes. - (omitted from calculations)

    Whirlfloc for 5 minutes.

  • White Labs WLP001 California Ale

    White Labs WLP001 California Ale

    This yeast is famous for its clean flavors, balance and ability to be used in almost any style ale. It accentuates the hop flavors and is extremely versatile.

Notes

Mash at 154F for 60 minutes. Boil 90 minutes. Ferment at 67F.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 23 - Specialty Beer

Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.063 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 22.7 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 6.7% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 69.3 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

Herbaljoe

Brewed 2/2/08

2008-02-03 12:07pm

Been playing around with this recipe for a while and finally decided to brew it. Hoping for a really bold and malty dark-red ale that has strong rasin notes and burnt caramel. Hoping the aromatic malt will also help bring out the rich malt flavors. Gave it a nice high IBU as to counter the sweetness and high alcohol level. Hoping the fairly heavy dose of Hallertau Mitt. on the back end will give it a balanced hop flavor with little hop aroma so that the malt can shine through. OG = 1.065 #44

Herbaljoe

Kegged 2/9/08

2008-02-18 10:37am

Well, this is an interesting beer... As you can imagine, it has a pretty strong caramel-sweet flavor, with some dark fruit notes. It has a very subtle aftertaste which resembles Port. There is a fairly high bitter kick at the end to balance it out though, and it actually works out pretty well. The somewhat high alcohol content also helps balance out the concoction. This is not a session beer, and if you drink it when you want a session beer you're probably going to be disappointed. Just like Arrogant Bastard, it's really best to just have 1 or 2 pints of this and enjoy the kick that it delivers. I feel that I came pretty close to what I was aiming for in this brew, but I think in the future I would cut back a little on the crystal malts, add a small amount of Carapils and perhaps mash at a slightly higher temp. While it does have a nice dark-fruit character from the Special B (as I hoped it would) it is still fairly restrained. I would like it to have less sweetness but more actual caramel and malty flavors.

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