This sounds right up my street. Would you care to share your recipe?View attachment 18064
Kendoon Four B (Bill's Bitter Brown Beer)
A sort of best bitter/brown ale/IPA hybridy thingy. 41 IBU, brewed with pale malt, CaraRed and some roast barley. Flavour hop Fuggle. Dry hopped with Citra and Motueka. 4.1% ABV.
Turned out very tasty!
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Yep, certainly. hopefully a pdf attached.This sounds right up my street. Would you care to share your recipe?
Well, I often use a combination of old and new world hops. Maybe my palate is a little odd, but I find that a combination of fruity + citrussy + earthy works well for me and adds a tasty complexity. I do suspect, though, that the old world/"noble" hops might be best as flavour/background, with the more citrus flavours as dry hop/aroma.@Hoppyland thanks for the recipe.
There is so much about this brew that shouldn't fit together, yet it compels me to try it (or something similar).
Funny you mention conditioning times, I added 20% Munich to my bitter recipe and it seemed to take an extra 4 - 6 weeks to really hit is stride. I like your hop blend idea, I don't often like US hops as they feel over some and unbalanced, as an accent over British or noble they could work well. Hobgoblin does similar with about 20% of the whirlpool hops being cascade, from memory the rest is fuggles and Styrian Goldings.I'm struggling at the moment to develop a "Munich Pale Ale" that I envisaged. Here, I'm trying about 70% pale malt, 20% Munich and 10% CaraGold. Hopping ( for 20l) is, for the latest version: Boil, 10g Warrior for 60min; Hot Steep, 50g Lemondrop plus 20g EKG; Dry hop 33g EKG. No piccies yet as not yet fully cleared (so not complying with the thread title just at the moment).
I've varied this a few times now - it takes ages to mature into a decent beer (although only 4.3% ABV).
Did you bitter it with galaxy too? If so how did you find it?Galaxy Pale Ale
First time using Galaxy, Mmmmmm
Being totally honest mate, I must have.Did you bitter it with galaxy too? If so how did you find it?
At least you're honest. That's probably a good way to use galaxy, when I made a galaxy pale ale it seemed way more bitter than the 30-something IBUs would suggest, turns out it's quite a harsh bittering hop. I made a NEIPA-ish thing as one of my stove top test batches, it got equal amounts of galaxy, cascade and amarillo at 20, 15, 10, 5 and 0 min without a proper "bittering" addition, calcuated at 60 IBUs but was super smooth and tasty, but then it did finish at 1.020 (only 4% I think) so maybe that balanced it out.Being totally honest mate, I must have.
I was determined to use only a single hop, I was a bit tipsy when brewing, I’m sure there was none at the start of the boil but I think I dumped in 30g at the end then started cooling 10-15 mins then pitched yeast, a dry hop of 70g and it’s a decent drink.
Sorry for the shoddy details
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