English Bitter

Classification: pale ale, all-grain, bitter

Source:

This comes out tasting something like draught Bass, or Fuller's London Pride.

To this recipe I add adjunts such as amber malt, chocolate malt, roast barley, Fuggles instead of Goldings, etc to yield what looks and tastes a very different beer, but has 90-95% identical ingredients.

Ingredients: (for 5 UK gallons, 6 US gallons, 22-1/2 litres)

7--8 pounds, crushed pale malt
1/2 pound, crushed crystal malt
1 teaspoon, CaSO4
1 teaspoon, Irish moss
3 ounces, Goldings (60 minutes)
1/2 ounce, Goldings (10 minutes)
1/2 ounce, Goldings (steep)
1/4 ounce, Goldings (dry hop in secondary)
Edme ale yeast

Procedure:

Mash in 3 gallons boiled water with 1 teaspoon gypsum (66 C., for 3 hours, or overnight). Sparge to 4--1/2 gallons. Boil 1--1/2 hours with 1 teaspoon Irish moss. Add hops as indicated above. Cool with immersion chiller, rack and aerate. Pitch Edme yeast. Rack to secondary after 4 days. Fine if necessary. Dry hop with 1/4 ounce Goldings in secondary. Keg or bottle after 2 weeks (primed with 3 ounces, malt extract).

Specifics:

O.G.: 1.042--1.048
F.G.: 1.020