Best Bitter Recipe - English Ale Brew club test

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English Ale Brew club test

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All Grain
19 Liter(s)
24 Liter(s)
60 min
68%
Brew No.17 Do again. It was ok but mah… Brew club test. Being brewed by 5 people. 5/10 - 4% Attenuation - 74% Pretty good for a session beer at home. Recipe - OG 1040. FG 1010. 4%

Fermentables

94% - Crisp Maris Otter
3.9
32
6
Mash
6% - Thomas Fawcett – Pale Crystal Malt
0.25
32
130
Mash

Hops

Boadicea
25
Pellet
Boil
60 min(s)
8
29.3
Boadicea
25
Pellet
Boil
15 min(s)
8
14.5
Boadicea
45
Pellet
FlameOut
0 min(s)
8
0.0

Yeast

Fermentis Safale S-04
78%

Other Stuff

No other stuff in this recipe

Mash Steps

No mash steps in this recipe

Special Instructions

1.
Take yeast out of fridge
2.
ChemSan Sanitiser (10ml per 5 litres) (70ML - 35Lt) - Fermenter, tubes, air lock.
3.
Water to Mash kettle. 12.5Lt
4.
Water to Sparge Kettle 17Lt
5.
Camden tablets to Both - 2.7 to Mash, 3.7 to Sparge. (5 Tabs per 23Lt)
6.
AMS to both - 11ml to Mash Kettle - 15ml to Sparge Kettle (22ml per 25Lt)
7.
DWB to mash kettle only 6.2g (13g per 25Lt)
8.
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9.
Set mash kettle to 70C
10.
Add mash bag.
11.
Add mash. Temperature 66C - Mash for 60 mins.
12.
Set sparge water temperature to 77C
13.
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14.
Turn off mash kettle
15.
Volaut
16.
Drain wort into bucket
17.
Add sparge
18.
Leave for 20 mins to rest
19.
Add sparge liquor to wort - Discard mash
20.
Add total liquor back into mash kettle - Boil for 60 mins
21.
Add hop spider
22.
60 mins - 25g Hops
23.
15 mins - 25g Hops
24.
Flame out - 45g Hops
25.
Turn off Kettle.
26.
Cool wort to yeast pitch
27.
Hydrometer - OG 1040
28.
Store fermenter at 21C
29.
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30.
Chemipro. Warm Water (4g/1Lr) (140g - 35Lt) Bottles. Syphon Tube and tap.
31.
Clean Mash tun to fermenter tube. Spare fermentation drub container. Black stoppers. Airlock.
32.
Sugar - 14Lt beer/28 bottles - 34g sugar - 140ml water - 5ml per bottle
33.
ChemSan Sanitiser (30ML - 15Lt) (60ml per 30Lt) - Syphon Tube & tap, caps, bottle machine.
34.
Sugar test - brewuk.co.uk/priming_sugar
35.
Hydrometer test - www.brewersfriend.com/abv-calculator
36.
Hydrometer - OG 1009

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Recipe Facts

English Ale Brew club test
Best Bitter
  • 19.00 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 24.00 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 60  min Boil Time
  • 1.040 OG
  • 1.009 FG
  • 43.9 IBU (tinseth) Bitterness
  • 1.11 BG:GU
  • 13.6° SRM Color
  • 68% Efficiency
  • 4.0% ABV Alcohol
  • 130 per 12oz Calories
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