Brewday 9/9/07 English Bitter

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:09 pm

Haven't done a brew for about a month now so planning this for tomorrow as I realised I still haven't done a straightforward English Bitter, probably bottling this lot for the late autumn, not sure this may be Jim's own recipe

any thoughts or improvements?

and which yeast do you reckon? I have S-04 or Nottingham

Standard English Bitter

OG 1039
22.5 litres
42 IBU 15.8 EBC

3.7kg Pale Malt
250g Crystal Malt

Mash liquor 10.5 litres
Mash Temp 67Ã‚Â°C
Mash Time 90 mins

Fuggles 4% 30g 90 mins
Challenger 8% 20g 90 mins
Fuggles 5g 15 mins

Boil Time 90 mins

BigEd · Post by **BigEd** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:16 pm

Looks like a tasty brew to me although I might back off a tad on the IBUs for a 1.039OG bitter. Have fun with the brewing. Cheers!

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:23 pm

Looks good, I was thinking of doing something similar tomorrow, good luck with it

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:25 pm

cheers lads,

BE, I reckon you're right, the guidelines in Promash give 40IBU as the very max for that type of brew so maybe a few grams less of the two bitterness hops will do better

iowalad · Post by **iowalad** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:13 pm

Looks good, I think Jim's is much lower IBU wise.

I know which yeast Steve F would tell you to use!

Might be a nice beer to split and try both yeasts.

I would probably go S-04 unless you really want to focus on the hop/malt rather than yeast.

Enjoy!

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:17 pm

looks good enjoy

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 5:37 pm

Have a good brew day G

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:03 pm

what yeast did you end up going with?

DRB · Post by **DRB** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:03 pm

A no frills bitter

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Garth · Post by **Garth** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:46 am

ok the HLT is heating up, malt has been weighed out and it's coffee time, nice

after the advice on the IBU's, I went with:-

90 min Challenger 16g 14.2 IBU
90 min Fuggle 25g 15 IBU
15 min Fuggle 10g 1.6IBU

gives a good sounding 31 IBUs

will probably use Nottingham, I have only one S-04 and I'm going use it on another stout next week, I reckon the cleaner/neutral taste will be better in a bitter.

roger the dog · Post by **roger the dog** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:41 am

Good grief Garth, that's what I call an early start

Have a good one

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:13 am

aye, I know RTD!!

The reason is that I'm sick of running into mid-afternoon with brews,

it wastes the rest of the day when you could be doing something else, planning to be finished and cleaned up before 1pm (hopefully)

it's a proper glorious sunny day round here so it would be a pity to waste it

roger the dog · Post by **roger the dog** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:21 am

I totally agree with you about the late-ish finishes, I should follow your lead & start early but I'm such a lazy s*d

Wez · Post by **Wez** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:09 am

You can't beat an early start / early finish, nice one Garth, have a good day

I would imaging you've got the boil started now

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:16 am

I get a normal brew day over and done pretty quick. A typical day would take about 6 hours from turning on the water to having everything clean and tidy again. Mine usually run from 8am to 2pm-ish.

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Brewday 9/9/07 English Bitter

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