Thursday 15 September 2011

South Street Ordinary Bitter

I want a decent ordinary bitter, around the 4% mark that I can have a couple of pints of on a school night and still be able to fill in the old mileage return afterwards. I also want to use existing ingredients because money's a bit tight and I only want a cornie's worth.


I've had a bit of a dig around in the freezer (and BeerSmith) and I've come up with this:


19L Brew length


Esitimated IBU 35
Estimated Colour 16 EBC
Estimated ABV 3.94%


Grain Bill


2.6 kg Maris Otter
250g Crystal
250 Torrefied Wheat
150 Crystal Wheat Malt


Hop Additions


25g Northdown (7.2%) 90 min
10g Cascade (5.5%) 30min
30g Saaz (4%) 15min


Starter of 1056 Wyeast American Ale


20g Cascade Dry Hop 

3 comments:

  1. Saaz and cascade together? That's an interesting combo.

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  2. Yes, I'm really looking forward to the results. Must be nearly ready for the dry hop. I'm going away tomorrow for a few days so I'll wait until I keg it.

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  3. I ended up moving the Saaz to 5 minutes and changed the name to "School Night Ordinary Bitter" because I know I can have a couple of these on the school night as it will be ok.

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