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Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) • All Grain • 6.0 gal

MonkeyKing

Looking for some interesting notes from the honey malt & pure Goldings hop essence.

January 5, 2010 pm 11:03pm

3.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (All Grain6.0 gal)

  • 10 lbs Maris Otter; Crisp

    Maris Otter; Crisp

    An English thoroughbred and a favored choice of malt for many brewers. Simpsons' Maris Otter has a rich and nutty flavor and despite its small, berry size has a strong husk. This malt delivers predictable brewhouse performance with modest, yet consistent extracts. Brewers can expect good runoffs with clear wort.

  • 1 lbs Munich 20L Malt; Briess

    Munich 20L Malt; Briess

    Golden orange hue with an intensly malty flavor.

  • 1 lbs Belgian Biscuit

    Belgian Biscuit

    Warm baked biscuit flavor and aroma. Increases body. Use in Belgian beers.

  • .5 lbs Honey Malt

    Honey Malt

    Nutty honey flavor. For brown ales, Belgian wheats, bocks and many other styles.

  • 2 oz East Kent Goldings - 4.5 AA% whole; boiled 60 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • 2 oz East Kent Goldings - 4.5 AA% whole; boiled 30 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • 2 oz East Kent Goldings - 4.5 AA% whole; boiled 5 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    A well-known, commercial English ale yeast, selected for its fast fermentation character and its ability to form a very compact sediment at the end of the fermentation, helping to improve beer clarity. This yeast is recommended for the production of a large range of ale beers and is specially well adapted to cask-conditioned ales and fermentation in cylindro-conical tanks. Sedimentation: high. Final gravity: medium. Pitching instructions: Re-hydrate the dry yeast into yeast cream in a stirred vessel prior to pitching. Sprinkle the dry yeast in 10 times its own weight of sterile water or wort at 27C ± 3C. Once the expected weight of dry yeast is reconstituted into cream by this method (this takes about 15 to 30 minutes), maintain a gentle stirring for another 30 minutes. Then pitch the resultant cream into the fermentation vessel. Alternatively, pitch dry yeast directly in the fermentation vessel providing the temperature of the wort is above 20C. Progressively sprinkle the dry yeast into the wort ensuring the yeast covers all the surface of wort available in order to avoid clumps. Leave for 30 minutes and then mix the wort e.g. using aeration.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 8 - English Pale Ale

Subcategory: C - Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.058 1.048 - 1.060
Terminal Gravity: 1.014 1.010 - 1.016
Color: 12.6 SRM 6 - 18
Alcohol: 5.9% ABV 4.6% - 6.2%
Bitterness: 53.7 IBU 30 - 50

Discussion

MonkeyKing

Bottled -- tasting very nice

2010-03-10 10:20pm

FG was 1.016 -- a tad higher than I expected. Interesting woody/earthy/fruity aroma. Not sure if I am picking up some 'estery' aromas from the yeast.

MonkeyKing

Cloudy

2010-05-02 9:57pm

Not sure about the cause. but this beer would not clarify. F.G was 1.016 -- a bit higher than expected. Finish was sweeter than I wanted -- too much honey malt? The taste was good -- maybe a bit of tart apple or cidery flavors, but overall pretty good taste

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