Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

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Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

Post by TAXMACKEM » Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:41 pm

23L- 60min mash and boil

Pale malt----5.14kg
Aromatic---- 400g
Crystal (60L)--280g
Choc Malt------100g
Torrefied wheat--250g

Hops------Progress (5.80 AA)

22g----60mins
15g-----15min
Giving 18.4 IBU'S

Colour is 45.4 EBC

O.G 1054 ------ABV 5.8 APPROX

I've only ever done about 5 brews in my life,but got a mad urge to come up with my own recipe,so it may not be balanced,or technically correct, but if you like dark malty ales, it tastes great ! :lol:
Last edited by TAXMACKEM on Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:07 pm, edited 2 times in total.

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Re: Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

Post by Horden Hillbilly » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:35 pm

TAXMACKEM wrote: But if you like dark malty ales, it tastes great ! :lol:
I'll vouch for that, I have tried it for myself.

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Re: Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

Post by Garth » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:55 pm

yep, it was a cracking brew,

but until we taste this one, we'll have to put it down to jammy beginners luck....... :D

and 140 litres of coffee...? that was just Hillbilly's guzzlings...

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Re: Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

Post by Horden Hillbilly » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:02 pm

Garth wrote:140 litres of coffee...? that was just Hillbilly's guzzlings...
:lol: :lol:

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Re: Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

Post by TAXMACKEM » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:30 pm

140L coffee,emptied my choccy biccy and pasty cupboard, and all they did for it was to turn up at 8am, stay till brew complete, keeping me right at every step, then clean all my equipment before they left, sheeeesh, whats the world comin to---------.
Help like that is priceless, for everything else there's Mastercard :lol: Cheers boys =D> =D> =D>

Its up and running now,cant wait--------

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Re: Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

Post by bloodoaf » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:51 pm

Looks good, but whats the "aromatic"?

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Re: Bushido Bitter--Yes, its new-----------

Post by TAXMACKEM » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:05 pm

Aromatic malt

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