This beer started as a Fuller's ESB clone, available on tap at Elephant and Castle in Chicago, but difficult to find. The recepie morphed into this over time. The primary grist for this style is typically Pale 2-Row. I substuted Marris Otter for part of the Pale malt for mouth feel. Crystal 60L provides body and color. The Munich malt is for flavor, aroma, and sweetness.
I adjusted the ingredients to nail the style 8C. Extra Special Bitter while using even pounds of grain and ounces of hops to avoid waste.
I usually use White Labs wlp002 English Ale Yeast, but here it calls for WLP005 British Ale Yeast due to it's slightly higher attenuation needed to hit the FG number.
If you like your ESB less hoppy, adjust hops from 4 to 3 oz. as follows:
-- use 1.5 oz Fuggles instead of 2 oz for 60 min
-- drop the .5 oz Fullles at 15 min
There is quite a bit of lattitude with efficiency, you can hit the numbers from 67% to 80%.
Batch size is 5.5 gallons to allow for trub loss.
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