Speight's Old Dark clone...

phile · Post by **phile** » Friday Jun 17, 2005 2:13 pm

anyone come close to this magic brew?

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Friday Jun 17, 2005 4:41 pm

not a clone, but had a 6 of the real thing the other night, like other Speight's brews it's a ripper.

If some one has a clone recipe, I'd like to see the recipe as well.

45 min till the weekend!

almost beer o'clock

phile · Post by **phile** » Friday Jun 17, 2005 5:44 pm

hey grabman - have you found an Speight's OD supplier in Perth or have you got a good Kiwi mate?

Post by **Oliver** » Friday Jun 17, 2005 10:27 pm

One truly great beer is Speight's Old Dark Malt Ale.

After a work visit to NZ I emailed Lion Nathan (owner of Speight's) to say how much I enjoyed the beer and asked whether it was available in Australia. The answer came back no, but to cut a long story short a woman from LN was travelling to Melbourne soon thereafter and brought me TWO slabs in her luggage. So I headed out to Carlton to collect it and hand over my $50 or so. Cheap at half the price. As I said, this is truly a great beer.

See our review at http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/reviews.html

For a suggestion on how to go about making it, read the notes of my No.30 Continental Dark Lager at http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/ourhomebrews.html

Let us know if you have any luck, as I'd be keen to give it a go, too. (I never did get around to brewing the Continental Dark Lager with an ale yeast.)

Cheers,

Oliver

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Saturday Jun 18, 2005 12:02 am

sorry phile, no Perth supplier, the missus is a kiwi so plenty of relatives in the land of long white cloud!!

Had some brought over by last visitor!

Although the International Beer Shop in Leederville would be worth a try to get this brew!