Fullers ESB - anyone got a recipe?

[bitter_dave]

Going to give Daab's recipe a go but I don't have any flaked Maize.

Does anyone know if there is a supstitute?

Fullers reportedly don't use flaked maize in their beers any more, so I would just up the pale malt to compensate. Flaked maize has a different extraction rate to pale malt, but I'm not sure how much it differs by off the top of my head, so I'll leave it to someone else to say how much pale malt to use.

[Kit_Maker]

Hopefully leaving it out of the recipe won't affect the flavour too much. Thanks for the response Dave.

[steve_flack]

I've heard recently that it's changed quite a bit with it now being 96% pale 4% crystal - others have reported that the crystal used seems to be darker than usual and that Munton's dark crystal is a good colour match.

[BitterTed]

I've heard recently that it's changed quite a bit with it now being 96% pale 4% crystal - others have reported that the crystal used seems to be darker than usual and that Munton's dark crystal is a good colour match.

I recieved my copy of Zymurgy today, and there's info about Fullers ESB written by John Keeling , evidently he's the Director of Brewing at Fullers. Anyway, the recipe he quotes them using is 95% PA Malt, 5% crystal, plus chocolate malt for coloring. Target hops at the beginning of the boil, Northdown and Challenger as late copper hops. " in addition, we add Goldings and Target to the fermenter, then Goldings in maturation and Goldings in cask."
Evidently they parti gyle, using 2 mash tuns, the first brew being Golden Pride, then later runnings for ESB, London Pride, Pale Ale, and Chiswick.
Oh, they burtonize the water for all beers except the Porter.