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daveIT

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I'm wanting to make a bitter with a slight hop bite and came up with the following recipie after researching a couple clone recipies. Any suggestions? Should this turn out alright? I'm thinking something like the casked Adnams Bitter I had when I was in Laxfield, England pounding pints with my English grammie a few years ago. Ahh memories...

4.25 lbs Alexanders Pale Male Extract
.25 lb Crystal Malt (40L)
.25 lb Chocolate Malt
1 oz Challenger (bittering - full 60 min)
1 oz Fuggles (bittering - full 60 min)
.5 oz Kent Goldings (finishing - last 10 min)
.5 oz Kent Goldings (dry-hop in secondary)
1 pkg Wyeast Thames Valley
 
Ordinary, just the typical pub bitter...a good low alcohol, session beer you can down pint after pint of.
 
sounds pretty good. i just brewed an OB with around the same ingredients sans the chocolate malt about a month abd a half ago. i guess the chocolate malt would just make it darker. i used 5 lb.s of extract though and used very little carbonation. i didnt dry hop it either, but cant imagine that would hurt it, definitely will give it a hoppier aroma and flavor. mine turned out pretty good, although just a tiny bit more of carbonation would be nice. good for watching football with though. called it the buckeye beater bitter in honor of my favoritee team, the texas longhorns.
 
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