Bitter

[pas8280]

I have until recently been brewing lots of hoppy pale beers, however just lately I have been craving good old fashioned bitter and as such started brewing a few.
There has been a slight issue in respect of that a basic lack of UK hops suitable, basically I have used up all my Challenger, Goldings and most of my Fuggles and I have gone a tad off First Gold as my last but one brew was all First Gold.
I have therefore come up with the following recipe for the next brew.

Brew Length 50 Litres

Doctor Marbles (AG # 95)

Tipple Pale Malt 8000g
Crystal Malt 700g
Wheat Malt 600g
Black Malt 35g

Stella hops 45g 90 mins
Styrain Goldings 10g 10 MINS
Mash at 66c for 90 mins
That should give a OG Of 1042 and colour 27 EBC and IBU 39

For Yeast I will be splitting the batch 50/50 between WLP 515 (supplied by fellow member Barney), and freshly skimmed Marble yeast kindly supplied by Marble Brewery Manchester

Thats the plan anyway,any thoughts or advice more than welcome
Paul

[seymour]

Looks like a tasty pint, for sure.

My first thought about your yeast selection was, "WLP515, the De Koninck Belgian strain?! That won't ferment a true-to-style English Bitter at all!"

But the more I think about it, that particular Belgian strain isn't profoundly "Belgian-y." It's clean, almost lager-like, biscuity with slight sulfur ("the Burton snatch") and it accentuates hops. That might just be PERFECT.

[pas8280]

Looks like a tasty pint, for sure.

My first thought about your yeast selection was, "WLP515, the De Koninck Belgian strain?! That won't ferment a true-to-style English Bitter at all!"

But the more I think about it, that particular Belgian strain isn't profoundly "Belgian-y." It's clean, almost lager-like, biscuity with slight sulfur ("the Burton snatch") and it accentuates hops. That might just be PERFECT.

Thanks Seymour the biscuity taste is what I'm after barney assures me that's what I will get with the WLP 515 it will be an interesting comparison with the Marble house yeast skimmed off a fermenter of "Manchester bitter" which allegedly is very similarly to the Boddington bitter of the 1970s

[seymour]

Sounds like both beers will be utterly delicious.