Ordinary Bitter Recipe - Little Barley Bitter Clone

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Little Barley Bitter Clone

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All Grain
5 Gallon(s)
6.5 Gallon(s)
60 min
75%
Clone of Barley Johns Little Barley Bitter made for friend. He is happy with the results.
Color at bottling close enough to be clone. New Barley John Brewer uses higher hoping rates than original.
Tasted Davids brew 9/15/13 1 week carbonation (2oz sugar for 4 gal), good malty taste, full mouthfeel, not much hop bitterness, mineral taste. Good overall.
9/21/13 - David likes it.
Solid session beer, more hop aroma would improve beer.

Fermentables

77% - 2-Row - US
5
36
2
Mash
8% - Caramel/Crystal 80 - US
0.5
35
80
Mash
8% - Munich - UK
0.5
37
9
Mash
8% - CaraVienna - BE
0.5
34
22
Mash

Hops

Warrior
0.25
Pellet
Boil
60 min(s)
16
18.7
Cascade
0.25
Pellet
Boil
10 min(s)
5.8
2.5

Yeast

Fermentis Safale S-04
79%

Other Stuff

No other stuff in this recipe

Mash Steps

No mash steps in this recipe

Special Instructions

1.
Mash grains 1 hr @ 150 F, 10 min sparge @ 170 F.
2.
Collect 6.5 gallons Boil 1 hr

Tasting Notes (1)

Sozzle

Tasted on 9/21/2013 by Sozzle

Notes:

Close to original. Clear golden. Makt aroma, touch of minerals. Solid malty beverage, not suryp/sweet quite good. medium mouth feel with light residual sweetness David loves it, I think it is quite a good session beer (would up the hop presence). I would brew again. New Barley John's brewer has upped the Cascade addition quite a bit.

Recipe Facts

Little Barley Bitter Clone
Ordinary Bitter
  • 5.00 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 6.50 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 60  min Boil Time
  • 1.035 OG
  • 1.007 FG
  • 21.2 IBU (brewgr) Bitterness
  • 0.61 BG:GU
  • 8.8° SRM Color
  • 75% Efficiency
  • 3.6% ABV Alcohol
  • 113 per 12oz Calories
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Ordinary Bitter

OG 0.995
1.120
OG: 1.030-1.039 / Your OG: 1.035
FG 0.995
1.120
FG: 1.007-1.011 / Your FG: 1.007
IBU 0
120
IBU: 25-35 / Your IBU: 21
SRM 0
40
SRM: 8-14 / Your SRM: 8.8
ABV 0
14
ABV: 3.2-3.8 / Your ABV: 3.6
BG:GU 0
2
BG:GU: 0.64-1.17 / Your BG:GU: 0.61

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