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I've just finnished my latest beer, it's called Krackasaki, keeping with the bike/motor theme.

Anyway, this time no pics, but, I've used my phone to vid it all so once i've spliced it all together into something a little more watchable I'll post it on the tube for all to see

The recipe is -

Steves Bitter
English Bitter/Brown Ale


Type: All Grain
Date: 28/08/2008
Batch Size: 23.50 L
Brewer: Stevezx7r
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: Brew Pot (5 Gallon)

Ingredients


4000.00 gm Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 86.96 %
250.00 gm Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 EBC) Grain 5.43 %
250.00 gm Wheat, Torrified (3.3 EBC) Grain 5.43 %
100.00 gm Roasted Barley (1160.0 EBC) Grain 2.17 %

50.00 gm Target [10.00 %] (90 min) Hops 46.8 IBU

1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min)

1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.046 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.010 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.005 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.40 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.65 %
Bitterness: 48.2 IBU Calories: 90 cal/l
Est Color: 28.9 EBC Color: Color

I was bang on with my est OG which makes a change

Notice no late hop aditions, keeping it simple, like me

Now that I've read the recipe, I'm really looking forward to the video!

Nice one, Steve, hope it turns out well.

We should do more videos ... this has inspired me to vid my next one perhaps ..

Looking forward to seeing it Steve

Krackasaki that's a brilliant name steve,i can't wait for the suzukishima stout

Hope it turns out to be a good'un steve...looking forward to the vid

How about a Blonde Bandit

Cheers guys, sorry I haven't been on the forum (or posted the vid online yet) but i've been tied up with getting a new car.

I'll get to editing it in the next few days and will let you know the link

As an update of this beer...

I've since added around 40g of Target hops as it was a bit too bitter for my tastes, I still crave those high AA of my Aurora IPA's

Anyway, a day later (today), I thought I'd have a taste and although it's still very bitter it now has a slight floral edge to it. Then I remembered something I'd forgot...

Maple Syrup!

I tried a drop in a small glass and straight away it knocked the bitterness on the head leaving lovely hoppy taste - still in the foreground, but less pronounced.

So, off with the barrel lid and in with ~ 100g of Canadas finest export. After a small amount of aggitation to the barrel I tried another sample and it's bang on. If it wasn't a little bit cloudy I would be drinking it now - it's that nice!

So, see if I can wait four weeks for it to mature (doubt it)

I've still got the clips to sort out (no, I haven't forgot) I had a look for them today and can't seem to find them so I'm hoping I haven't lost them to the ether, but that's another story