Broughcliffe Best Bitter

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Really please with how this one has turned out, most of my brews have been from recipes but this one is my own, ok so it's not exactly ground-breaking list of ingredients but for me it just has the right levels of malt and bitterness that I like in a traditional pint of english ale.

Had heard some stories about Windsor yeast but I waited till the beer had fermented out and then turned the TC-10 down to 12 deg and left it for another 10 days, racked into the corny and haven't even needed to force carbonate or fine, just push the beer out with 2psi, the temp must have kept the last bit of CO2 that the yeast gave off dissolved in the beer, result a near perfect pint of draft ale.

FG was 1.012 giving me 23lts @ 4.1% with 31 IBUs of bitterness. Next up an IPA with Northdown and Fuggles.

BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: 19 Broughcliffe Best Bitter #1
Brewer: Nick
Asst Brewer:
Style: Special/Best/Premium Bitter
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (45.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 23.00 L
Boil Size: 27.43 L
Estimated OG: 1.042 SG
Estimated Color: 10.1 SRM
Estimated IBU: 31.1 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.52 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (2.5 SRM) Grain 83.02 %
0.47 kg Wheat Malt, UK (1.8 SRM) Grain 11.08 %
0.20 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.9 SRM) Grain 4.72 %
0.05 kg Chocolate Malt (456.9 SRM) Grain 1.18 %
68 gm Fuggles [3.90 %] (60 min) Hops 27.1 IBU
1.00 items Protofloc (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
17 gm Goldings, East Kent 4.6 [4.60 %] (10 min)Hops 4.0 IBU
1 Pkgs Windsor Yeast (Lallemand #-) Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 4.24 kg
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Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
60 min Mash In Add 11.06 L of water at 74 C 67 C