
I want a bright sparkly pale coloured bitter for Xmas and so have left out all specialty grains (to keep the colour light, also 66° mash), and used the ale hop variety I think is the lightest and brightest in flavour - for me anyway. I couldn't bring myself to make a small 15min hop addition as so many tried and tested printed recipes have, because a) I have the hops available and b) bigger is better right???
Ingredients
25L, 3hr mash from 66°C (not 90mins only because kids football is gonna get in the way), 90 min boil, efficiency 85%, Water profile Dry Pale Ale, alkalinity 25 CaCO3
Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.71 kg Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 100.00 %
65.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.40 %] (90 min) Hops 22.3 IBU
50.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.40 %] (15 min) Hops 7.9 IBU
60.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.40 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1 Pkgs British Ale (White Labs #WLP005) Yeast-Ale
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.040 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 3.71 %
Bitterness: 30.2 IBU
Est Color: 7.2 EBC