#16 ESB Mk2

[chefgage]

Brewed this on saturday. Its my ESB that i am trying to perfect. This is the second version of it, and this time i have used the grainfather for the first time.

Grain
4.5kg maris otter
0.25kg caramel crystal 60
0.25kg dark crystal 240

Hops
50g challenger 60 mins
30g EKG 10 mins
30g EKG 0 mins

Yeast
Safale S-04


Heating the mash water up


Grain bill


Mashing in


Recirculating


Ready for sparging


Sparging, i really like this feature on the controller


Boiling


Cooling


Fermenting, excuse the state of the wall

[rui]

your recipe looks nice!! and all the set up to!!

cheers

[chefgage]

Thanks. Going to brew another recipe tomorrow, got to get the stocks of beer up

[SMASH3R]

See link for the can you brew it Fullers ESB thread on JBK
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32971&p=377108#p377108

Despite my criticism about my attempt, it is pretty close to the bottle version. In conclusion the only major difference is probably the Fullers yeast. However, the bottled ESB (which I happen to be drinking now) is a pale shadow of the draught version unfortunately

[alexlark]

I've harvested the Fuller's yeast from a couple of bottles of 1845. Used it in a Hobgoblin clone last month. Lurrrvley

[MTW]

Nice brew thread cheers.

I've harvested the Fuller's yeast from a couple of bottles of 1845. Used it in a Hobgoblin clone last month. Lurrrvley

Different to wlp002?

[Jim]

Nice pics!

Have you used caramel crystal malt in previous brews? Just curious what it adds to the flavour.

[alexlark]

I've never used WLP002 so I'm not sure.
My last Hob Gob was S-04. The Fuller's is definitely an improvement.

Edit: WLP002 is supposed to be Fullers; http://www.mrmalty.com/yeast.htm

[sladeywadey]

How did this ESB brew work out?

[chefgage]

How did this ESB brew work out?

I tried a bottle after 2 weeks. Carbonation was spot on. Clarity was very good, in fact it has been my clearest yet, despite not doing anything to help it clear. Taste wise the initial taste was promising. It has a slight alcoholly taste that i would describe as slightly unpleasent. I have had this with other brews of similar ingrediants used. When i have given it another couple of weeks this has mellowed out.

The esb has a very nice caramel/toffee after taste which provided a nice mouthfeel.

Looking forward to trying another bottle next weekend when it will have been conditioning for 4 weeks.

[chefgage]

Nice pics!

Have you used caramel crystal malt in previous brews? Just curious what it adds to the flavour.

I used it in the first version of the esb. This was caramel crystal 80L. It gave a very nice toffee/caramel after taste that sort of hung about/stuck in the mouth. This is by no means unpleasent and gave a nice touch to the beer.

In the second version i have used caramel crystal 60L. This gave a similar after taste as befor but with some thing i cannot put my finger on (in a nice.way). Hopefully after a couple more weeks conditioning i will become more apparent. Obviously something to do with the dark crystal 240L.