Hi every one.. been a while!
Was wondering if you guys anf chicas
could critique this British ordinary Bitter, especially the crystal amount.. should I increase to 1lb or leave as is...? Ive never made this style but I had a Firestone DBA and it was good not awesome but I could drink it and others/ guest said they could drink it...
so I want to try my skillzz at it .
Mash at 153F for 60 MinYeast: WLP002 vs 005
I added .75lb of flaked barley to give it a tad smoothness..
right now Im at 10% Total for Crystal
I was thinking of dropping .25lbs from the Base grain and addingit to the crystal Carastan so it would look like this
.75lb carastan and .25 caraoma = 1lb of crystalMethod: All Grain
Style: Ordinary Bitter
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 7.34 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.030 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 80% (brew house)
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV (standard): 3.72%
IBU (tinseth): 32.77
SRM (morey): 8.57
FermentablesAmount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
4.5 lb United Kingdom - Golden Promise 37 3
60%1.5 lb United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale 38 3.75
20%0.75 lb Flaked Barley 32 2.2
10%0.5 lb United Kingdom - Carastan (30/37) 35 34
6.7%0.25 lb German - CaraAroma 34 130
3.3%7.5 lb Total
HopsAmount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
1 oz Fuggles Pellet 5 Boil
60 min 20.71
0.5 oz East Kent Goldings Pellet 5 Boil
20 min 6.27
1 oz Cascade Pellet 7 Boil
5 min 5.78
Hops SummaryAmount Variety Type AA
5 min: 1 oz Cascade Pellet 7
20 min: 0.5 oz East Kent Goldings Pellet 5
60 min: 1 oz Fuggles Pellet 5
Mash GuidelinesAmount Description Type Temp Time
2.91 gal Mash in Infusion 153 F 60 min
5.38 gal Mash out Sparge 170 F 15 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.55 qt/lb