EX#3 – Jamil’s Ordinary Bitter

Category: Standard/Ordinary Bitter
Recipe Type: Extract
Batch Size: 19 L
Volume Boiled: 10 L
Mash Efficiency: 77.2 %
Total Grain/Extract: 2.14 kg
Total Hops: 69.0 g

Original Gravity: 1.038 (1.032 – 1.040)
Terminal Gravity: 1.009 (1.007 – 1.011)
Color: 13.80 °SRM (4.00 – 14.00 °SRM)
Bitterness: 32.9 IBU (25.00 – 35.00 IBU)
ABV: 3.8 % (3.20 – 3.80%)

Ingredients

• 0.34 kg Crystal 100
• 1.8 kg Dry Light Malt Extract
• 38 g East Kent Goldings (Whole, 5.00 %AA) boiled 60 min.
• 16 g East Kent Goldings (Whole, 5.00 %AA) boiled 30 min.
• 15 g Fuggle (Pellets, 4.75 %AA) boiled 1 min.
• 0.5 ea. Whirlfloc Tablets (15 mins)
• Yeast: Fermentis Safale S-04

Notes

Actual OG 1.034. Fermentation not started nearly 24 hours later. Huge amount of sludge on top of beer.

22/01/2012 – Bottled into PET using 55g light spraymalt. FG: 1.010

17/02/2012 – First taste. Promising, but not ready to drink. Bit of astringency from yeast bite I think. Very light bodied, but nice malt flavour still coming through. Will give it another 4 weeks before tasting again.

17/03/2012 – Second taste