Ale Advice - real butter beer

[PlacidCasual]

Hi peeps

Just before Christmas I followed a really old recipe to make buttered beer. It was ok, not great hot but pretty nice cold with a little milk and maple syrup.

The main failing was the beer I used was quite hoppy and quite bitter. I used London Pride. When it was hot it's not unpleasant but it is an odd taste. I was looking for some suggestions of ales that are low on aroma hops and not too bitter. So rather than use google or similar I thought I'd ask the most informed body of citizens I could find.....sadly they weren't available so do you lot have any ideas

Did a blog post on it if anyone is interested.

 

[Mark M]

Butter beer as in Harry Potter?? Had some at Universal Studios years ago, you need some cream soda!

 

[PlacidCasual]

Yeah I've seen the youtube videos that recreate it when doing my research. But I was making real butter beer, just for the giggles, from an Elizabethan recipe.

I'm also planning a non acoholic version using powdered butterscotch sweets as the prime flavouring but I'd like to improve on my alcoholic real butter beer recipe with a more appropriate ale.

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

I expect styles have changed a fair bit since Elizabethan times. I'd try something like Mann's brown ale, or even possibly a stout or porter like Guinness.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Mann's is a good call. Not sure about stout, lower acid but has a bitterness from the dark malts. But maybe I'll give it a go. I'll do 1 pint testers for my next go and see how they work.

Thx

 

[Hagar]

Milk stout is sweeter, contains lactose hence name.

 

[MikeTheNative]

I'm not a massive fan of it normally but would Old Speckled Hen work?
That's not hoppy and not too bitter.
It's a reasonably local to me so easy to get, not sure about other parts of the country. But Wye Valley brewery make something called Butty Bach that's a decent beer as well.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Thx Mike, I might give that a try too.