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| | One of the most specialized of the so-called [[specialty beer styles]], '''Cock Ale''' is beer which is [[dry-hopped]] with a parboiled chicken which has been soaked in sherry wine. | | One of the most specialized of the so-called [[specialty beer styles]], '''Cock Ale''' is beer which is [[dry-hopped]] with a parboiled chicken which has been soaked in sherry wine. |
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| − | ==Brewing Cock Ale==
| + | HKf1hL Great article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing. |
| − | The most often quoted recipe is one that was collected by William Carew Hazlitt (grandson of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt William Hazlitt]), in his 1886 collection ''Old Cookery-Books and Ancient Cuisine.'' The recipe reads:
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| − | :'''To make Cock Ale'''
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| − | :Take ten gallons of ale, and a large cock, the older the better, parboil the cock, flea him, and stamp him in a stone mortar till his bones are broken, (you must craw and gut him when you flea him) put the cock into two quarts of sack, and put to it three pounds of raisins of the sun stoned, some blades of mace, and a few cloves; put all these into a canvas bag, and a little before you find the ale has done working, put the ale and bag together into a vessel; in a week or nine days' time bottle it up, fill the bottles but just above the necks, and leave the same time to ripen as other ale.
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| − | Brewers considering making their own cock ale should probably take extra precautions to avoid [[Will bad homebrew kill me or make me blind?|microbiological contamination]] of their beer.
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Latest revision as of 11:19, 19 July 2014
One of the most specialized of the so-called specialty beer styles, Cock Ale is beer which is dry-hopped with a parboiled chicken which has been soaked in sherry wine.
HKf1hL Great article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.
