Brakspear bitter

[chub1]

Just bottled up 14 assorted sized bottles of a 'tinkered with' Brakspear recipie.
Initial (on bottling) aroma and taste points to possibly my best bitter brew to date.Time will tell:grin:
6 litre batch. BIAB(dunk sparge). 90 min mash. 70 min boil.
660 grm Irish pale malt
310 grm Irish stout malt
27 grm crystal malt(90L)
8 grm black malt
20 grm flaked barley
8 grm Challenger pellets 70 min
1/2 protofloc tablet 15 min
4 grm Styrian goldings pellets 2 min
4 grm styrian goldings pellets dry hop 5 days
1/2 pack gervin yeast re hydrated
OG 1.036
FG 1.007/8
ABV 3.75% IBU 30.52 SRM 9.81

 

[MyQul]

I'm currently making my way through a batch of bitter with the same OG/FG, but I'm finding it too dry/light of body. If I was to do the same again using notty, I'd defiantly either mash higher than the 66C I mashed at or add more crystal or both. Flavour wise though its quite good

 

[chub1]

I'm currently making my way through a batch of bitter with the same OG/FG, but I'm finding it too dry/light of body. If I was to do the same again using notty, I'd defiantly either mash higher than the 66C I mashed at or add more crystal or both. Flavour wise though its quite good

Hoping the flaked barley will add something to this:)

 

[MyQul]

Thats what I was thinking. FB is supposed to add body so hopefully it will :thumb:

 

[chub1]

Mmmmmmmmmmm
not great at all. Not nasty just boringly mundane.
What is it about bitter that seems to make it hard to come up with something really good.:twisted::twisted:

 

[MyQul]

I think were spoilt by all the variety and exoctic beer styles that are now out their. Bitter just seems pedestrian. Not for me though, I love bitter. I've just pitched the yeast into a First Gold/Hallertau Mittelfrauh bitter

 

[chub1]

I think were spoilt by all the variety and exoctic beer styles that are now out their. Bitter just seems pedestrian. Not for me though, I love bitter. I've just pitched the yeast into a First Gold/Hallertau Mittelfrauh bitter

Out of many betters,i have done one really nice one and that was extract,all the others have been mundane and lacking.
IPA's,APA's,Pales,Stouts etc etc not a problem,arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:lol:

 

[MyQul]

Out of many betters,i have done one really nice one and that was extract,all the others have been mundane and lacking.
IPA's,APA's,Pales,Stouts etc etc not a problem,arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:lol:

What yeast have you used? Have you tried a 'proper' English liquid (or cultured up from a bottle) strain. As bitter are yeast driven of course, and perhaps that's what your finding lacking?

 

[chub1]

What yeast have you used? Have you tried a 'proper' English liquid (or cultured up from a bottle) strain. As bitter are yeast driven of course, and perhaps that's what your finding lacking?

Only dried yeast's. Not progressed as far as culturing my own up!.

 

[MyQul]

Only dried yeast's. Not progressed as far as culturing my own up!.

That'll be it then. Whilst I'm happy to drink bitters made with dried yeast (and I love the convenience), the bitters I've made with cultured up strains are far superior to the bitters I've made with dried yeast (It's definately the yeast, as I have a bitter reciepe that I use across the board).
If you regularly make bitter, it's definatley worth culturing up some 'proper' bitter yeast

 

[chub1]

That'll be it then. Whilst I'm happy to drink bitters made with dried yeast (and I love the convenience), the bitters I've made with cultured up strains are far superior to the bitters I've made with dried yeast (It's definately the yeast, as I have a bitter reciepe that I use across the board).
If you regularly make bitter, it's definatley worth culturing up some 'proper' bitter yeast

Thanks:thumb:
Will probably give them a miss from here on in.Not sure if i can be a###d to get into culturing!.
Think i will stick to my proven beers.Just had feedback on a Mango Pale which has gone down really well:)
Nathen, who wants 12 bottles of so so bitter:lol::lol::lol: