Single hop English style bitter suggestions please! (Extract

[homebrewjapan]

I'm looking to make an English style bitter using DME and speciality grains. I'd like to use a single hop because I want to get an idea of individual hop flavour - but if that's really not recommended, I can combine hops.

I'm quite limited in my choice of ingredients in Japan.

- I can get Fuggles (5.0%), Northern Brewer (7.5%), and Goldings (5.4%) leaf.

- My DME will be Munton's Spraymalt - so I need to know whether to use extra light, light, medium, or dark.

- Grains (can't get a lot of British crystal):
Northwest C15, C40, C60, C75, C150
Weyermann Carared 15.6-19.3 lovibond
Muntons Crystal 42-49 lovibond
Muntons Chocolate (432), Black (550-600), Roast Barley (670), Japanese Roast Malt (394)
Flaked oat, rice, rye

Flavours I like (not limited to English bitters) are Spitfire, Bishops Finger, Fiddler's Elbow, Red Hook ESB.

Any suggestions of beers that have come out well? Or ideas of things you would recommend trying from those ingredients?

A number of bitters (eg Bishop's Finger and Fiddlers Elbow) seem to be based around Goldings, so I'm thinking to go with that. Those same recipes also use wheat malt - I can't get grain for that but I could use a pack of wheat spraymalt. Based on that, this is what I'm thinking of:

2.0kg (4.4lbs) Light Spraymalt
0.5kg (1.1lbs) Wheat Spraymalt
0.3kg (0.65lbs) Muntons Crystal 42-49L

East Kent Goldings 5.5% Leaf
45g (1.5oz) @ 60m
15g (0.5 oz) @ 20m
15g (0.5oz) @ 0m

S-04 yeast

Based on a boil volume of 9.5L (2.5g US) and batch size of 22.7L (6g US), this gives me:
OG 1.037 - FG 1.009
IBU 36
ABV 1% (in line with Japanese regulations, certainly not 3.6% or anything like that)

I used TastyBrew.com to do these calculations.

What do you think?

[Subsonic]

I made 3 Kentish beers recently, one pure hopped with Fuggles, the other with Goldings and the last with a mix of the two, albeit they were all grain beers. The fuggles was a great pint and ready relatively early. The Goldings took longer to mellow but was still great. The last is fermenting now and smells the best albeit I bumped the IBU up to 45 on a 1045 beer. Why not make a batch of each with single hops and then compare the result to perfect your ultimate bitter? By making the first two beers I reckon I understood the mix of the hops required for my third batch and hopefully my 'perfect pint', but only time will tell if I got it right... Subsonic