Best Bitter? Recipe Wanted

[Uncle Joshua]

I'm after something in a best bitter style but at around 3.7% from the following..


Pale Malt loads
Vienna
Torrefied Wheat 500g
Crystal Malt 500g


Hops

Bramling 9g
Styrian Golding celeia 17g
Stella Hop 40g
Citra 37g
Golding 24g
Fuggles 84g
Progress 56g
Challenger 26g
Target 7g
Magnum 57g
Summer 10g

Household white sugar 1kg
Yeast

Gervin English Ale
Safale US -05
Safale S -04

A 60 mash and boil would be good too.

[jimp2003]

For something pretty standard I would go with:

88% Pale Malt
8% Crystal
4% Torrified Wheat

All of your challenger and target for bittering at 60 mins then fuggles at 10mins and 0mins aiming for about 30IBUs in all.

I would mash at 68 degrees C for an hour and boil for an hour.

Yeast S04.

As its a low strength beer I might be tempted to gently boil down a few litres of the first runnings to give a bit more depth. Or sub some of the pale malt for vienna. Or do both of these things.

You have a lot of options open to you.

Good luck wth whatever you come up with.

Jim

[seymour]

That sounds great, here's another historical option:

SEYMOUR - THOMAS MCGUINNESS BEST BITTER CLONE

6 US gallons = 5 Imperial gallons = 22.7 L

GRAINBILL
94% = 7.24 lbs = 3.28 kg, Pale Malt
4% = .31 lb = 141 g, Torrified Wheat
2% = .15 lb = 68 g, Crystal Malt

MASH at 153.5°F/67.5°C, 60 minutes

BOIL 60 minutes

HOPS
1.13 oz = 32 g, Fuggles, 60 minutes
.38 oz = 11 g, Fuggles, 15 minutes

YEAST: Whitbread-B/S-04

STATS (assuming mash efficiency of 78% and yeast attenuation of 71%):
OG: 1.038
FG: 1.011
ABV: 3.5%
IBU: 22
COLOUR: 5°SRM/10°EBC

[Hanglow]

Here's another alternative suggestion



Invert is no2 to provide some flavour - you'd need to make your own

also that recipe was for a slightly stronger beer so use less bittering hops, maybe 45g or so instead

[Uncle Joshua]

Seymour's recipe is sat in my FV. i MAY WELL TRY THE OTHER TWO IN THE COMING WEEKS.

[seymour]

Seymour's recipe is sat in my FV...

Cool. Did you end up brewing that Hock?
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=56973&p=598324#p598204

What'd ya think of the Hoppy Black? Did you get the banana esters?
/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=55788&p=588583#p586375

[Uncle Joshua]

Seymour's recipe is sat in my FV...

Cool. Did you end up brewing that Hock?
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=56973&p=598324#p598204

What'd ya think of the Hoppy Black? Did you get the banana esters?
/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=55788&p=588583#p586375

I haven't done the Hock yet.

The Hoppy Black...each bottle goes off like a rocket when opened. I primed it in my standard way but it goies nuts. I can only taste the Carafa special III, its been the same with every beer I've used it in.

I'm hoping to get another brew on this week, most of my beer was drunk over Christmas so I now have almost no stock.