Thursday, October 22, 2015

Best Bitter 10/17/2015

Best Bitter

This is the style of beer that pulled me into brewing. I enjoy this most served at about 62F with very low carbonation.

Malts(milled)

Fawcett Optic - 10lbs
Crystal 40L - 1lb

Hops (pellets)

Fuggle 2 oz
Kent Goldings 2 oz

Mash

Strike temp 170F
Mashed 1 hr with 6 gals @ 152F
Produced 7.2 gals

Boil

50 mins Fuggle
15 mins Goldings
Yielded about 5.5 gals

Cooled to 97F
Poured into vessel that had Red Ale Brew and yeast
OG 1.044

Comments

Tastes like the Bitter I love. ABV it expected to be about 4.6% based on 5.5 gals made.

Placed into cold storage for 1 month.

Carbonated and aged this beer is flavourful yet light and easy to drink. Perfect. 


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