Quick and nasty Extract brew!

[WishboneBrewery]

Extract#8 – Booble Beer – Named by Emma, renamed by me aka Nasty Barsteward IPA
A pretty random little Extract Brew, Hopping to blow your socks off, this will probably take some months to be drinkable

Fermentables:
Dried Malt Extract Medium 1000g
Crystal Malt, Pale 60 EBC 100g
Sugar, Household White 100g
Belgian Aromatic Malt 100g
German Cara Red 100g

Hops:
Herkules 60 mins 30g
Boadicea 20 mins 20g
Boadicea 10 mins 20g
Boadicea 0 mins 10g

Final Volume: 8 Litres (actually closer to 9 or 10 litres)
Original Gravity: 1.056 (actually 1048)
Final Gravity: 1.011
Alcohol Content: 5.8% ABV
Bitterness: 172 EBU (this is where the Nasty bit comes in!)
Colour: 59 EBC

No pictures as I wasn’t messing around.
Cooling in the bath, going to Pitch a Split Burton Ale yeast thats been in the fridge since mid week, give it some serious hops to munch through

[196osh]

Damn, that will be bitter as hell.

[WishboneBrewery]

Sometime I'm going to try a really authentic IPA... Also I'll do a more sensible challenger IPA

[GARYSMIFF]

If that turns out Over bitter blend it.
that said just had 2 bottles of Brewdog PunkIPA and second was quite mellow but I guess Ill sleep well.

May be you should have called it Soporific Booble Barsteward.

I'v just posted my Monster brew for this weekend, was going to be a nice brew but sod the costs of my local Hb shop £44 for 25kg. so just took 3kg

[WishboneBrewery]

I'm thinking of bottling it all in 330ml bottles and leaving it for a long time, though as you say Blending it could be an interesting option

[OldSpeckledBadger]

You can use the months of maturation to get used to bitter tastes by sucking on lemons

[WishboneBrewery]

I think the Burton yeast is going to mute-out quite a bit of the hopping, and I added a load of Gypsum and Chalk to the boil to the yeast might hopefully give off some sulphurous aromas too
And at 9 or 10 litres more than the recipe the hopping IBU's come down to around that of an Authentic IPA, but this is darker and probably going to be maltier too.

[WishboneBrewery]

I tried a bottle of this at the weekend... (Bottled Friday 4th Sept has completed 2 weeks @ 20C)
Bitter!! Fruity berries flavour... not a million miles away from a Brewdog beer, I'm mildly impressed, it wend down very well with some home made Onion Bhajis