Stone Lee's Mild recipe

[seymour]

Only brewed in 1999, winner of Brewer's Choice Award

GRAINBILL:
82.9% Two-Row Pale Malt
7.6% Brown Malt
7% Dark Crystal Malt 150L
2.5% Pale Chocolate Malt

HOPS:
Northern Brewer, all added at beginning of boil, calculate quantity to achieve 22 IBU

MASH @ 154°F/67.8°C, sparge at 168°F/75.6°C, collect enough extra to account for much evaporation

BOIL: vigorously for 2 hours

YEAST:
English ale yeast, Fullers or Whitbread-B strains, ferment at 72°F/22.2°C

STATS:
OG 1.040
ABV 3.8%
IBU: 22 IBU
COLOUR: 17°SRM/33.5°EBC

[jimp2003]

Seymour I really must complain - Every time I think I have settled on a recipe for my next brew you go and put temptation like this in front of me!!

This isn't going to help me get through my stocks of hops but it looks like a beauty! Do you think that I could get away with fuggles or willamette for bittering? I can't think much hop flavour comes through after 2 hours boiling.

[seymour]

Seymour I really must complain - Every time I think I have settled on a recipe for my next brew you go and put temptation like this in front of me!

I do my best.

This isn't going to help me get through my stocks of hops but it looks like a beauty! Do you think that I could get away with fuggles or willamette for bittering? I can't think much hop flavour comes through after 2 hours boiling.

Yeah, I'm sure that would work great. As you say, it's purely for bitterness, very little distinctive flavour would survive so long a boil. That said, I just finished reading the For The Love Of Hops book, and it states that using a higher quantity of lower alpha acid hops for bitterness, particularly aged ones, will increase the overall citrusy and fruity esters in the finished beer, which we typically believe are malt and yeast derived. Lots of interesting stuff in there. If true, that sounds like a nice dark mild enhancement to me!

[tec-9-7]

I would have no concern about using Fuggles or Willamette for bittering - the co-humulone percentage is very close between NB and F/W, so as long as you're adjusting for the lower AA, I'd expect an excellent ale.