I'm just drinking the London Bitter, really good traditional ale.
I'm just drinking the London Bitter, really good traditional ale.
I was wandering: the IBUs are about 23, isn't that a bit low, even with an ale at around 4%?
Since posting the above I have brewed the Irish Red ale, it came out fairly well - not exactly red though, quite dark. I have also brewed the Belgian Golden Strong (but subbed in Sladek/Saaz) and it came out very very well indeed. I am bottling the Belgian Tripel that I brewed over Christmas tomorrow and so far so good (again Sladek and Saaz subbed in). I still have not done the Amarillo single hop! This year for sure!..I think all bar half a dozen of my brews have started out as an idea from either Palmer or Hughes, but almost always with some slight tweak, I rarely follow a recipe to the letter, even my first I had to swap some hops since I couldn't get them over here in Prague. I only use dry yeast so far too.
From Hughes I have done:
Spring beer - twice, once with Cascade/Citra rather than Galaxy/Wai-iti and with a slightly higher proportion of Munich, and the second time more or less as per recipe.
Bohemian pilsner - with S-23
Imperial pilsner - similar grain bill ratio but reduced down to around 5% abv and with Sladek/Saaz hops 4 additions, W34/70
Black IPA - but with Nugget and Cascade, US-05
Patersbier - BE-256
Weiss - with Hillertau Mittelfruh rather than HH, WB-06
Oktoberfest -Sladek instead of Perl and used MJ54 (this yeast was awful)
ESB - with S-04
Smoked Porter - higher smoked malt ratio with Fuggle and Challenger, S-04
Oatmeal Stout - with S-04
Scottish 70 - with S-04 (got infected)
Yorkshire bitter - S-04
Vienna Lager - S-189, decent but a few gushers, used Sladek/Saaz
Black lager - used only Saaz, S-23. decent
American Wheat - with US-05 and slightly higher ratio of wheat to pilsner/carapils
The top ones for me:
Oatmeal stout - a beer I'd gladly pay a fiver a pint for....
Smoked porter - i love smoked beers though
ESB - nice balanced beer
Imperial Pilsner watered down - I live in Prague, we have dozens of excellent pilsners, whilst not fantastic it stands up against them. I've down three batches of this. Also I love Melanoidin so it goes in a few of my brews!
Worst:
The Oktoberfest was ruined by the yeast and the Scottish got an infection. otherwise none to complain about. did what they said they would.
Planning to do the Irish Red next (been meaning to do it for over a year, it keeps getting pushed back). And the Amarillo Single hop has been on my list since I got the book. I plan to add about 5% Melanoidin though. This year for sure! :-)
From Palmer for the record - American Amber, American Brown, Dry Stout and Robust Porter.
Hi,
Just ordering ingredients for my next few brews.
I want to brew the American IPA. However when I have put the recipe into brewers friend the IBU shows as 87.
The stated IBU on the recipe is 55. I have put the %AA of each hop into BF.
Any ideas on this discrepancy please? Should I brew as is or reduce the hops?
Thanks
Hi,
Just ordering ingredients for my next few brews.
I want to brew the American IPA. However when I have put the recipe into brewers friend the IBU shows as 87.
The stated IBU on the recipe is 55. I have put the %AA of each hop into BF.
Any ideas on this discrepancy please? Should I brew as is or reduce the hops?
Thanks
I did the Weissbier recipe recently though had to sub the yeast with FM Cloves and It’s just a lovely beer drinkable straight out of the fermentor (After being force carbed).Just brewed the Weissbier. Looking forward to see how it turns out. I shall also brew the American wheat beer next week.
I finished the last bottle of English barley wine, a fantastic beer. Reminds me of Sarah Hughes Snowflake.
My only attempt at one of these was disastrous. The amarillo one. I think, but dont know, that I made a complete arse of adjusting the hops for AACurrently chugging on a GH Nelson single hop pale. It’s a beauty
My only attempt at one of these was disastrous. The amarillo one. I think, but dont know, that I made a complete **** of adjusting the hops for AA
I dont really know what went wrong, but the AA of the hops I got was WAY higher than recipe and though Indid adjust, I must have made mistakes in doing so. It ended up really bitter, quite oxidized and a bit medicinal tasting.Likewise! Worst beer Ive done by a long stretch which is ironic considering it was also the simplest.
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