what do you think of this bitter recipe?

[alfie09]

69bitter
Date:
Gyle Number:
Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 12 lbs. 13.6 oz 5830 grams 84.9%
Torrefied Wheat 4 EBC 1 lbs. 8.1 oz 680 grams 10%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 11.8 oz 335 grams 4.9%
Black Malt 1300 EBC 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 0.2%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Challenger Whole 7.6 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 1.3 oz 38 grams 24.7%
Fuggle Whole 4.9 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.8 oz 23 grams 15.1%
Golding Whole 5.7 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.8 oz 23 grams 15.1%
Fuggle Whole 4.9 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 2.4 oz 69 grams 45.2%


Final Volume: 40 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.038
Final Gravity: 1.009
Alcohol Content: 3.8% ABV
Total Liquor: 53.9 Litres
Mash Liquor: 17.2 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 30.5246631627448 EBU
Colour: 18 EBC


going to use wlp002 in one fermenter and either nottingham or S04 yeast?

[RichardG]

One question only really; what's the purpose of the torrified wheat? If it's to aid head formation/retention I'd have said 5% was plenty (that's the amount I use, though I'm trying wheat malt at the moment). If it's for something else, e.g. flavour, then its obviously your choice. Other than that, it looks fine. Be interested to see the difference your yeast options makes to the final beer. Make sure you let us know!

[alfie09]

it was a recipe from a book adjusted upto 40 litres. it was a black sheep best bitter

[nobby]

Sounds a really nice English Bitter. Like richard says lower the T Wheat to may be 250 grams (half a packet). I tend to use just Challenger, Fuggles and Goldings in my beers

Bitterness: 30.5246631627448 EBU are you sure thats correct?? could do with a few more decimal places

[Dr. Dextrin]

My experiments with Black Sheep clones suggest that you do actually need quite a lot of wheat to get the right flavour in most of their beers. In fact, I tend to mix torrefied wheat with wheat malt in the ratio 1:2 and use that mixture. A rate of 10% doesn't seem too high to me.