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Anyone remember this Brew Dogbolter from the old Firkin brewpubs
I just found the all grain recipe and got the brew on yesterday 😀
I remember Dogbolter at the Famingo & Firkin pub in Derby, when i first started homebrewing with kits i'm sure i made some.
Do you mind posting up the recipe as i wouldn't mind a bash at that now i've progressed to the Massive brewery BIAB method
This is where I got the recipe
[url= http://www.beertools.com/library/recipe.php?view=11145 ]Dogbolter[/url]
If you need a "reference pint" it's still being made at a brewery near me (Gadds of Ramsgate) by a chap who I believe learnt the trade at the Ferkin pubs. Nice beer.
Ooh that takes me back - pints of Dogbolter in the Phoenix & Firkin in Denmark Hill.
Those were the days......
The best commercially produced beer in the UK IMO. Once tasted, never forgotton...
Went downhill very quickly after Allied Breweries (IIRC) took Bruce's over and moved production to one of their multi-brew plants.
Dogbolter, oh yes! I used to frequent the Flapper & Firkin in Brum, back in the day.
I seem to remember that the brewer at the start of the Firkin pubs (I think they only had the Fox and Firkin at the time) was an entertaining chap called Andy Rudd.
Just remembered - loved the " I'm a Firkin Bar-steward" shirts!
Fox n Firkin was the first of the pubs I went to .
good food and beer with live music on 😀
Frog-gods sake will someone buy me a Firkin
It's been back a while now:
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IIRC, the guy behind the [url= http://www.ramsgatebrewery.co.uk/our-ales-main.html ]Ramsgate Brewery[/url] was employed at Firkin and when it closed he took a couple of recipes in lieu of redundancy.
It is still as evil as ever 🙂
"For Fox' Sake Get Me a Firkin Ale"
'Phoenix my pint I'll firkin thump him' was another classic, as was the Goose & Firkin's 'Bruce's Firkin beer always goose down well'.
I used to be a big fan in case you haven't guessed 😉
Vague memories of drinking Dogbolter many years ago in a Firkin pub on the Isle of Dogs. Do remember one of the guys not managing to walk back to the flat in Kensington and found out he slept in a car boot in a breakers yard!
Lol some good uns remembered there
Mine is bubbling away nicely now
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Think I may have to have a go at making some of that 🙂
I always thought the way it got its name was pure urban legend but I've lost many hours of my life to the stuff.
Come on Nobby tell us how it got its name
I should know but cant remember
bubbling away nicely?
looks like it's all trying to escape
accidentally just added to my untappd wishlist
LOLing at the 'Gobhoblin'
The original tale was that David Bruce always tested his new beers on his dogs and one of them took a large slurp of DB, yelped & ran away from it.
[url= http://gaddsbeershop.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/gadds-faithful-dogbolter-porter.html ]The 'truth' seems more realistic.[/url]
looks like it's all trying to escape
'Live' yeast is very [i]interesting[/i] isn't it. 🙂
Yes a very vigorous ferment blew the airlock out so had to fit the blow off tube .
Thanks for the tale there Nobby rebooted the memory cell
Well I just kegged the Dog and the hygrometer says it will be 7.2%
so wont be bolting too many down in a sesh