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Fishermans Friend Best Bitter
Special/Best/Premium Bitter • All Grain • 11 gal
Brewed 6/13/12
June 13, 2012 am 12:56am
4.0/5.0 1 rating
Ingredients (All Grain, 11 gal)
- 16 lbs
Pale Ale Malt; Briess
Pale Ale Malt; Briess
Golden color with a malty flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Can be used as a base malt. • More pronounced malty flavor than 2-Row Brewers Malt. • Use with 2-Row Brewers Malt for rich malt flavor and additional color. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- 1.5 lbs
Caramel Malt 60L; Briess
Caramel Malt 60L; Briess
Sweet, pronounced caramel flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam, foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • 2-Row Caramel Malt 60L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts deep golden to red color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to amber and red beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- .125 lbs
Black Malt; Briess
Black Malt; Briess
Neutral flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Use in all beer styles for color adjustment. • Provides the color and sharp, almost acrid, flavor that is characteristic of Stouts and Porters. • Use 1-10% for desired color in Porter and Stout. • Black Malt has a distinctive malty flavor and is not interchangeable with Roasted Barley. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- 3 oz
East Kent Goldings - 6.1 AA% pellets; boiled 45 min
East Kent Goldings
Mild, slightly flowery.
- 1 oz
East Kent Goldings - 6.1 AA% pellets; boiled 10 min
East Kent Goldings
Mild, slightly flowery.
- 1 oz
Cascade - 2.0 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min
Cascade
Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.
-
White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale
White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale
Clean, highly flocculant, and highly attenuative yeast. This yeast is similar to WLP002 in flavor profile, but is 10% more attenuative. This eliminates the residual sweetness, and makes the yeast well suited for high gravity ales. It is also reaches termi
Notes
Mash at 150F.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 8 - English Pale Ale
Subcategory: B - Special/Best/Premium Bitter
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.046 | 1.040 - 1.048 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.011 | 1.008 - 1.012 | |
| Color: | 13.8 SRM | 5 - 16 | |
| Alcohol: | 4.5% ABV | 3.8% - 4.6% | |
| Bitterness: | 37.6 IBU | 25 - 40 | |
Discussion
Hit some of my numbers
2012-06-14 9:12am
O.G. 1.046. Pitched WL007 from a 3.75ml starter. Controlled ferment at 67F. Looks a little dark, but we shall see once its in a glass. Missed my mash. Mashed at 151F for 20 minutes, then 155 for 40 minutes. Crashed on day 10 in carboy. Kegged on day 15. F.G. 1.014. Yeast was very easy to work with. Next time try hitting a mash of 152, to see if I can get attenuation down to 1.010-1.012
Good Bitter
2012-09-16 1:57pm
Turned out well. Not too dark. Judges said it needed to be more bitter, but I don't think so. Maybe bump it 5 ibu.
Brewed 4/4/2014
2014-04-07 10:05am
This recipe now represents the 5 ibu higher. O.G. was 1.046. Repitched slurry WLP013 150ml/carboy at 64F. Free rise to 68F.
Also
2014-04-07 10:06am
Mashed at 149-150, so hopefully this one will dry out appropriately.
Kegged 4/20/14
2014-04-21 2:32pm
Beer dried out to 1.012.
Brewed 1/22/16
2016-02-06 1:50pm
Maybe grain miss weigh, but got 1.056. Used Simpsons Golden Promise, EKG, with First Gold at 1 min. Kegged 2/4/16. Pitched at 63F, warmed to 68 F. WY007. Kegged at 1.014, but seemed quite dry, not sweet.
Your bitter
2016-02-09 4:06pm
This beer is actually an ESB. It tastes fine and fits guidelines for an ESB. Good luck and brew on.
Sorry mikfir
2016-02-09 6:46pm
I overshot the gravity, so i adjusted the mash efficiency to see whether it was possible the golden promise was way more efficient or if i miss weighed my grain. Turns out it was a weight prob but i didn't adjust recipe back. Original batch was og 1.046. Still in best bitter guidelines. Will adjust recipe back soon.
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