It's been a long time since I posted. I only brewed twice in 2013, but I am looking to equal or better that in 2014.
This week I started a batch of what is one of my favorite styles, and something somewhat difficult to buy: an ordinary bitter. This is an English ale, and my ideal has a nice caramel maltiness, a light kiss of hops, low carbonation, and low alcohol. And yes, it is best drunk at cellar temperature, which means something like 55 degrees, not the 35 degrees of a refrigerator.
I've brewed this twice before, tweaking the recipe slightly each time. I tasted the sample I pulled to take the IG of and this might be the one. It was already pretty good.
6.5 lb Maris Otter
10 oz 45 Crystal
2 oz 120 Crystal
4 oz flaked wheat
White Labs 005
2/5/14- Mash at 150 with 12 qt water at 163 for 90 min. Sparge with 5 gallons of 170 degree water. Collected 5+ gallons of wort, added 2 gallons of water to evaporate during the 1 hour 15 min boil.
23 g Challenger pellet @ 60 min.
7 g Challenger pellet @ 15 min
14 g three year old Styrian Goldings pellet @ 15 min
21 g " " @ 2 min
Chilled by first placing in a snow pile for a few minutes and then used my immersion chiller to cool it down. Initial Gravity was 1.034, which means I should end up right around 3% abv. Yum yum!
Thursday, February 6, 2014
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