Hillbilly Bitter

[Horden Hillbilly]

Up bright & early in the morning to set this away, it is loosely based on Old Speckled Hen, made a few slight changes to suit my own taste.

Pale Malt 3400g (77%)
Crystal Malt 442g (10%)
Torrified Wheat 132g (3%)
Glucose Brewing Sugar 442g (10%)

Challenger hops start of boil 54g (8.6% alpha acid)
Goldings hops last 15 mins 20g
Goldings hops at end of boil 8g (leave 30 mins before running off)

OG 1046 (79% effiency)
40 bittering units
Fermented with Gervin ale yeast.

It is all systems go, just finished sterilising, yeast starter just starting to kick in, grains & sugar weighed, will filter water just before retiring for the night.

This will probably be the last brew of my "brewing season" which runs from September-ish to June-ish. Even in Hillbilly country with the north sea on my doorstep it becomes a problem to keep the temp down!

[FlippinMental]

where d'ya get the brewing sugar from HH. interesting recipe by the way, care to explain what the changes produce to the finished brew.

[Horden Hillbilly]

I get my sugar from http://www.hopandgrape.co.uk/admin/cata ... e=0&page=1.

I have made the recipie slightly less potent, I believe the og for OSH is about 1050-ish, I also reduced the pale malt by 3% and added the torrified wheat solely for head retention, we like a head on our beers up north.

[Andy]

Hope all goes well HB...

Pics welcome!

[Bigster]

Good luck with your HB, HB.

Hope your day is less eventful than mine today

[Horden Hillbilly]

Well, nothing but good news to report, went smooth from start to finish, achieved a gravity of 1047, just had a look and the yeast cap is just starting to form. Just hope we don't get a heatwave up here, just checked the temp, it is in the low 20's now.

Sorry, cannot post any photos, have not entered the world of digital photography yet and my mobile is a "talk & txt" model.