Sign up ×  My most successful brew to date has been Northern
Brewer's Scottish 80/- extract kit. It was a dead ringer for
Belhaven, but lacked Belhaven's body and mouthfeel, maybe due to
the fermentability of the extracts in use.  I'd like to do a
mini-mash next time with the focus on adding body to the beer.
The extract will provide much of the fermentables, so I don't
care if this mini-mash is skewed very strongly toward dextrins.
How do I adjust the mash temperature to lend body?
share|improve this question I brewed the Belhaven Scottish clone
recipe from the CloneBrews book. It also came out quite
delicious. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison with a real
bottle of Belhaven because I screwed up when brewing and used
way too little LME, resulting in an OG of around 1.050 instead
of 1.075. Aside from it coming out smaller than it should have,
the taste is fantastic. If you like brewing clones, grab a copy
of this book and give it a try! I'll be making it again,
hopefully correctly this time. –  JackSm