We will be brewing our first ESB in a couple of weeks. We want the beer to have a decent hop punch, mainly on the bitter side, with some sweet caramel/maltyness to smooth things up. The color should be copper, or near Fuller's london esb. Around 5% of alcohol would be nice.
Here is what we came up with during the planing pint:
Extra salty banana: London esb (the name will hopefully change..)
Batch size: 5.3 gallons
OG: 1.054
FG: 1.017 (this will probably be around 12-14)
ABV: 4.9 (probably well over 5%)
IBU: 47.8
Color: 10
IBU/GU: 0.88 (probably a bit lower)
83% 8.8 lbs Pale malt (2)
8% 0.88 lbs caramel (60)
5% 0.55 lbs carahel (10)
4% 0.44 lbs cara pils (2)
1.76 oz EKG (5.5) FWH
0.88 oz fuggels (4.5) FWH
0.7 oz EKG (5.5) 1 hr
0.7 oz EKG (5.5) 10 min
0.7 oz Fuggles (4.5) 10 min
0.88 oz EKG (5.5) dry hop for one week
Wyeast London ESB Ale 1968
So a few questions are in order. Is there too much caramel malts? Is our hopping schedule too complicated? What about dry hopping? We don't want it to be a pale ale, so overhopping might be a problem... We are planning to carbonate it lightly, in the tradition of English ales. We are looking forward for any C&C.
Here is what we came up with during the planing pint:
Extra salty banana: London esb (the name will hopefully change..)
Batch size: 5.3 gallons
OG: 1.054
FG: 1.017 (this will probably be around 12-14)
ABV: 4.9 (probably well over 5%)
IBU: 47.8
Color: 10
IBU/GU: 0.88 (probably a bit lower)
83% 8.8 lbs Pale malt (2)
8% 0.88 lbs caramel (60)
5% 0.55 lbs carahel (10)
4% 0.44 lbs cara pils (2)
1.76 oz EKG (5.5) FWH
0.88 oz fuggels (4.5) FWH
0.7 oz EKG (5.5) 1 hr
0.7 oz EKG (5.5) 10 min
0.7 oz Fuggles (4.5) 10 min
0.88 oz EKG (5.5) dry hop for one week
Wyeast London ESB Ale 1968
So a few questions are in order. Is there too much caramel malts? Is our hopping schedule too complicated? What about dry hopping? We don't want it to be a pale ale, so overhopping might be a problem... We are planning to carbonate it lightly, in the tradition of English ales. We are looking forward for any C&C.