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Hopefully I should be brewing this, this weekend. It's one of GW recipes, my first mild so looking forward to it.

23Ltr

Malt Bill


Pale 2660g
Crystal 410g
Black 240g
Flaked Wheat 130g

90 Min Mash

Hop Bill

Challanger 26g 90 Mins
Golding 9g 10 Mins

ABV 3.1% (No ruff mornings for Paul )

Sounds good, what Mash temperature did you go for and yeast?

I'm using Gervin English Ale Yeast (only one I've got in stock) I'll be mashing at 66C as per GW Book. If I manage to get to my LHBS before my brewday on saturday I'm gonna change 1/3 of the pale malt for Munich Malt as per recommendation from AM

You could Mash a little hotter at 68-69c to keep a bit more body, the Munich will help the body too, beers can be a little thin feeling at these lower ABV's.
If I do a sub 3% beer again I'll probably Mash at least 70c or hotter to help the body.

I like the sound of that pdtnc

Think I might also either add a bit of sugar to the recipe or more pale malt to get the abv up to 3.4%.

Brewing something this low in alcohol has got me wondering how low you could go before taste really begins to suffer?

Sugar will thin your beer, better to up your malt.

Too much Black Malt for my taste.
I'd much rather use Carafa Special II instead.
Looks good otherwise.

With those low alcohol beers, I prefer to mash somewhere between 68 to 70ºC to ensure I have nice body in the beer.

This probably won't interest any of you but as I've never done a yeast starter I thought i'd put some piccys of it up






It was taken with my iphone which is rubbish for photos, will be using my wife's camara tomorrow so hopefully some decent piccys!

Rest of the piccys!















Mashed in at 70 deg for a bit more body. Upped the pale malt to 3100g ended up with a SG 1.038

Lets hope it tastes as good as it looks!