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Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:31 am
by jeffsmith
Pipeline is starting to run low again, so going to brew 11 gallons of ESB before long. Hop amounts below are for a 5 gallon batch though.

Mash: 60 minutes at 152ºF
OG: 1.051
Colour: 12.5 SRM
IBU: 45

79.4 % Maris Otter
9.9 % Carastan Malt
5.0 % Aromatic Malt
5.0 % Victory Malt
0.8% Black Malt

Warrior (15.5 %)—0.75 oz (60 minutes): 33IBU
US Golding (4.5 %)—1.50 oz (20 minutes): 12IBU
US Golding (4.5 %)—3.00 oz (Flamout)

0.04oz/gallon Gypsum in boil

One carboy will get S-04, the other US-05.

Edit: Changed the bittering charge to Warrior to reduce the hop mass in the kettle a bit. Also upped the flameout addition a bit.

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:09 pm
by Tim Gregory
A One that is not cold, is scarcely a One at all.

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:13 pm
by jeffsmith
Tim Gregory wrote:A One that is not cold, is scarcely a One at all.
The oneitude!

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:16 pm
by dean2k
Sure I had to Google the reference, but that beer does sound tasty.

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:21 am
by jeffsmith
Updated the hop bill a bit.

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:05 pm
by jtmwhyte
Gonna give this one a rip tomorrow with some Danstar Windsor.

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:24 pm
by jeffsmith
jtmwhyte wrote:Gonna give this one a rip tomorrow with some Danstar Windsor.
:rockin:

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:28 pm
by jtmwhyte
Drinking now. That Windsor is cloudy as fuck, but nice. The Victory reaallly comes through.

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:38 pm
by jeffsmith
jtmwhyte wrote:Drinking now. That Windsor is cloudy as fuck, but nice. The Victory reaallly comes through.
Try it with US-05 or S-04 next time. It'll drop super clear. The US-05 was my favourite of the two.

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:22 pm
by jtmwhyte
This has dropped pretty clear now and it's awesome. Lots of malty English flavour going on.

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Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:41 pm
by jtmwhyte
Just as an aside. I just drank a Wychwood Hobgoblin and found my version of Jeff's bitter VERY close

Re: Strongbad Bitter

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:16 pm
by jeffsmith
Interesting…