Wheeler's Book British Real Ale and EBU levels

[bobukbrewer]

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[bobukbrewer]

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[PhilBrew]

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[bobukbrewer]

my current brew using summit hops 5gm 60 mins 5 gm 50 mins 5 gm 40 mins 10 gm 30 mins 15 gm 20 mins 20 gm 15 mins 40 gm 10 mins 70 gm 5 mins contributing ibu's of 7.6, 7.2, 6.7, 11.7, 13.8, 15, 22.1, 21.1

So yeast pitch April 25 -- bottled April 29 --- tasted a 330 ml bottle May 2
Very very nice - clearly carbonisation level a little low but the right amount of bitterness for me (similar to dark star hophead) and very nice flavour and aroma. Will definitely make this one again, maybe with even more aroma hops in last 10 minutes of boil. A winner !

 

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[Lesinge]

I’ve never used Summit but believe it is is a big American bittering hop with the AAUs in the high teens. Your beer will come out like a hop forward American West Coast IPA hop-wise. Bitterness on an American IPA will be up in the 50-80 range or higher depending on OG.

The Graham Wheeler book is full of British real ale clones. These will be either malt forward or balanced beers so the IBUs will be much lower than an American IPAs and will use hops like EKG and Fuggles which have a much lower AAU content. I would think a 70IBU beer made with EKG would be rank! And expensive!

However...I am going to make a clone of an Watney Combe Reid from the late 1800's - I think the recipe came from "shut up about Barclay Perkins "but I have it saved somewhere. The IBUs are somewhere in the region of 156 initially and uses over 380g of Goldings or EKGs hops - the secret of course must be in the long storage of the beer as if it is on a journey to India. I was also looking to purchase some of that heritage grain varieties that some growers are growing to get the same malt as they did back in the 19th century. So, whilst it might seem "rank" and will probably be as a young beer, I am hoping it will mellow out with time.