Best Bitter - Best Bitter

A Book/Magazine Recipe - by Brewing Daddy

RECIPE INFO

All Grain Best Bitter from Andy Hamilton's Book 'Brewing Britain'
Author: Brewing Daddy - View
Brew Sessions: 0
Source: Book/Magazine
Recipe Type: All Grain
Efficiency: 75%
Calories: 143
Boil Time: 45 Minutes
Batch Size: 0
Boil Size: 0
Total Grains: 0
Total Hops: 0
IBU/OG: 0.79
OG: 1.044
- - -
FG: 1.01
- - -
IBUs: 34.82 (tinseth)
- - - IBUs
Color: 7.8° SRM / 15.37° EBC
- - - SRM
Alcohol: 4.45%
-% - -% ABV

FERMENTABLES

fermentable / amount / ppg / l / usage
Pale Ale - BE, 0 (90.9%), 38 ppg, 3 L, Mash
Biscuit Malt - BE, 0 (8.4%), 36 ppg, 23 L, Mash
Chocolate Malt - US, 0 (0.7%), 34 ppg, 350 L, Mash

HOPS

hop / amount / usage / time / AA / IBUs
East Kent Goldings, 0 (Pellet), Boil, 90 Minutes, 5, 31.6
Cascade, 0 (Pellet), Boil, 10 Minutes, 6, 3.21

YEAST

yeast / attenuation
Fermentis Safale S-04, 78%

NOTES

Start Volume---- 30 litres .
Mash 20 litres at 67º for 75 minutes and leave it to mash over night.

Sparge with 10 litres at 70º.
Pre-Boil Sample Gravity- 1039
Post Boil (Original Gravity)- 1044
Boil volume 26 litres- for 45 minutes.
Final volume- 23,5 litres

Fermented in primary only for 18 days after siphoning to get a final amount of 22 litres.

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