Can anyone give me a good hoppy bitter from this please.

[guest5234]

I have the following ingredients..I like a purity ebu or a banks bitter hoppy beer, anyone got a nice recipe please.

Simpsons Maris otter
crystal malt
black malt wheat malt.

hops
goldings dont know the alpha
cascade 9.8
northern brewer 11.2
handful of amarillo 11.2
Cheers neil.

[jonnyt]

Northern Brewer for bittering
Goldings for Flavour, 10 mins or flame out
Cascade and Amarillo dry hop

[seymour]

Here you go. I had to guess at the darkness of your crystal malt, but this should give what you're looking for.

6 ½ lb 85.2% Marris Otter
½ lb 6.6% cane sugar
¼ lb 3.3% crystal 50-60L
¼ lb 3.3% oats (just cheap rolled, flaked, of Scotch from your kitchen)
1/8 lb 1.6% black wheat malt

.75 oz Northern Brewer 60 minutes
1 oz Goldings 30 minutes
1 oz Cascade 10 minutes

I'd bake the crystal and black malt in the oven a bit before crushing to wake up the caramelly, bready aromas. Pinch of calcium carbonate in mash. Pinch of gypsum in boil kettle. Ferment with your favorite classic English ale yeast. Try to resist dry-hopping this one, that's not how the beers you mentioned are done.

OG ≈1.045, IBU ≈41, SRM ≈12, ABV ≈4.5

Cheers and keep us posted on your results!