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Aussie-born, living in Canadian with dual citizenship chiming in. Born in Sydney (Paddington), live in Vancouver. As for Brissie, my sister and brother-in-law lived in Chermside West until they moved to the Great White North. Anyhoo, get the book, it's great. I bought it off of the CAMRA UK...

Oh, joyous day! My copy of BYOBRA arrived today. Very impressed actually - from the UK to Canada (the part that's the farthest from it too!) in three weeks. Now I can have a better understanding of the recipes and brewing styles that all of you are talking about in your posts. :cheers:

I think that Perle is a great bittering hop. Just bottled an IPA that I bittered with Perle. Lovely bitteness, but not overpowering. My .02.

Just realised, Wez, that it wasn't an American Amber that I used Zeus for - it was an American-style ESB. Modelled after Redhook's ESB In any case, here's the recipe if you're still interested. I really liked it, personally - malty, but slightly sweet; good bitterness. Cascadia ESB Original...

I like Zeus. I used them for am American Amber. They added a nice bitterness - nothing harsh. Flowery is a good descriptor.

To start, keep in mind that I have never had the pleasure of tasting TTL, let alone a hand-drawn, cask-conditioned pint. Here in the Great White North (and it really is, we had snow yesterday), we don't get a lot of real ale in bottles, let alone at all. Though, many local brewers are casking...

BM, Let us know how this turns out. Also looking for a house bitter. Cheers.