Potential Recipe: Amber lightning

[craigmarshall]

I've come up with a new recipe which I'd like a bit of feedback on, it's based on a beer called summer lightning (Recipe by Graham Wheeler), but I've made a few tweaks based on what I have in stock and my taste preferences... I realise it might turn out very different to summer lightning, which is fine, it's meant to be a new recipe not a clone. I just find it easier to start with an existing recipe and tweak from there. I used GW's Beer-Engine software to make sure everything adds up.

I've used 4.3kg of pale and 200g crystal, instead of 4.9kg of pale. This drops the abv from 5 .0% to 4.4%, so I've reduced the EBUs too, from 39EBU to 35EBU - a similar amount. I've also no Challenger hops, so I'll get my bittering from Fuggles instead. (I also have bramling cross if anyone thinks that would be better suited). I will use EKGs for flavour and aroma hops still, but I've upped the amounts by about 20% - I want to see whether I like goldings at in-your-face levels.

Any thoughts before I take the plunge

Cheers,
Craig

[WishboneBrewery]

You could use a Hint of Bramling Cross for Aroma in an 80C steep so you get a faint Blackcurrant smell

[craigmarshall]

You could use a Hint of Bramling Cross for Aroma in an 80C steep so you get a faint Blackcurrant smell

I did exactly what you suggested, so hopefully it'll add a little something. Other changes I made to the above recipe are a tiny bit of flaked barley (25g), and a few bramling cross at 40mins (to push the IBUs back up to the right number as I shortened the boil time from 90 to 60 minutes, which reduces the hop utilisation). It'll be interesting to see how it turns out!

Cheers,
Craig