I brewed a Muntons Yorkshire Bitter. This is one of my favourite kits. It's a 1.8kg kit and the only fermentables I added this time were 500gm of wheat spraymalt (which is more accurately roughly 50/50 wheat and barley). Safale 04 yeast. Going to bottle 12 litres and put the rest in a 10 litre pressure barrel I have knocking about. I didn't check the OG, but I expect it will be 1.035 or thereabouts + priming sugars.
Trying to make this as a lower ABV bitter. It's quite malty and on the lower end of the bitterness scale relative other bitters (they include the IBU range on the side of the can, which all kits should do IMO). Because of this I'm hoping will be fairly balanced despite the lower OG/ABV. We will see. I normally add medium DME, but the shop was out of this so I thought I would try the wheat one as Yorkshire Bitters sometimes have a bit of wheat in them for head retention etc. I believe.
As with the nut brown ale I made a few weeks ago, this is an ale I think that drinks well quite early, and I think I might be drinking a bit of this from the barrel on Christmas Day!
