anyone got a good bitter recipe? for 40litres

[alfie09]

i have

25kg pale malt (bairds)
1kg crystal malt
1kg torrified wheat

200 grams fuggles
100 grams bobek
70 grams northern brewer
100 grams EKG
100 grams northdown
20 grams target

i want to make something around 20-28 ebus and more of a malty beer. and really just want to use what i have cant afford to buy any more stuff in at the moment.

[Trunky]

[alfie09]

ha no just asking if someone had one that they had made out of the same ingridents. i also have about 400grams of black malt

[Trunky]

[alfie09]

sorry my grammer is poor lol. i like bobek i may just do that, i always find it takes a age for the bobek flavour to come through in my beers a good 7-8 weeks before i even start tasting them?

[benna]

yeah that's what I thought when I read it!

you should check out beer engine:

http://www.practicalbrewing.co.uk/calcu ... eerengine/

really useful free software for getting recipes together etc, may not be the best out there but if you just want to see about ebc and ebu etc you can't go wrong!

But yeah with those ingredients it really depends what you want to brew, if it were me I'd probably do something like what trunky suggests, its summer so you want something hoppy and fruity?! maybe use some of the ekg as early bittering hops and put lots of bobek in at 15, 5 and 0 minutes and then some to dry hop, I did something similar last year and it was lovely!

[alfie09]

using beer engine. getting tired of making my own recipes up there hit and miss. just wanted a tried and tested recipe. made about 30-35 brews now i want to try someone's recipes other than my own

[alfie09]

my missus just informed me she moved the hops around in the freezer so she could fit some mince meat in there. i have found some sorachi ace, challenger. i really like challenger hops. as anyone done a all challenger bitter?

[dave-o]

I would probably go something like:

Pale 3700g
Crystal 300g
Torri 200g

Fuggles - 40g Full boil
EKG - 30g boil 5 minutes and steep for 30


*EDIT* This was for 23l - i see you were looking for a 40l recipe.

[boingy]

Here ya go matey.
Try one of Horden Hillbilly's recipes here:

http://uk-homebrew.tripod.com/id26.html

You'll need to scale them up to 40 litres but you should find something to fit your ingredients there.

[alfie09]

i have made one up going to go for this

Date:
Gyle Number:
Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 14 lbs. 8.5 oz 6590 grams 80.1%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 1 lbs. 7.1 oz 655 grams 8%
Sugar, Household White 0 EBC 1 lbs. 4.3 oz 575 grams 7%
Torrefied Wheat 4 EBC 0 lbs. 14.3 oz 405 grams 5%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Fuggle Whole 6.59999999999999 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 3.6 oz 100 grams 67.4%
Fuggle Whole 6.59999999999999 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 1.8 oz 50 grams 32.6%


Final Volume: 40 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.048
Final Gravity: 1.009
Alcohol Content: 5.1% ABV
Total Liquor: 54.7 Litres
Mash Liquor: 19.1 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 29.5880385740731 EBU
Colour: 22 EBC

its a well used recipe of one i seen somwhere around here i just upped it slightly to 40 litres. then a week on friday i am going to do a similiar recipe but for 23 litres but just using styrian goldings