Extra Special British Malt?????

[johnnyc]

The beer has been kegged for about a week and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Very malty with a clean finish. If I make it again I'll up the 60 minute addition to balance it out a little better. I am curious if the taste will change much as it carbs up.

Well I think I'm going with Mild Ale for the ESB thanks to Revvy and BYO.

Original:
4 oz Honey Malt
4 oz ESB Malt
1lb Med. Crystal
7lb Light LME
1 3/4 oz EKG's @ 60
1oz EKG @ 20
1oz fuggles @ 2

Mine:
4 oz Honey Malt
4 oz Mild Ale Malt
1lb Crystal 60L
7lb Light DME
2 oz EKG's @ 60
1oz EKG @ 20
1oz Fuggle @ 2
WLP-023 with starter

Revvy, I'll let you know in about a month.

 

[Rebel_Brewer]

We are carrying the Gambrinus ESB malt if anyone is interested.

 

[Batinse]

Storm Brewing here in Vancouver currently uses Gambrinus ESB as the only malt in their Hurricane IPA. I've never used Maris Otter, but I understand that the above hypotheses are more or less correct: it's an NA-grown approximation of a British 2-row. Storm IPA is a tasty, if inconsistent, brew, with a nice crisp toastiness in the malt profile. I just brewed a clone of this beer (using, basically, the same ingredients as the brewery, since my LHBS Dan's Homebrewing gets his supplies off the same shipping pallette. Here it is:

Recipe Type: All-grain
Yeast: Wyeast London ESB, #1968
Yeast Starter: Yes
Batch size: 6 gal (calculated to 75% eff)
Original Gravity: 1.071
Final Gravity: 1.13
IBU: 53
Boiling time: 60mins
Colour (SRM): 6.6
Primary Fermentation: 7 days @ 68F
Secondary Fermentation: 10 days @68F

15lbs Gambrinus ESB Pale
Single Infusion Mash 60 mins @154F

1.2 oz Zeus 15%AA Boil 60 mins
.375 oz Cascade 7%AA 15 mins
.375 oz Willamette 4.8%AA 15 mins
.375 oz Cascade 7%AA 5 mins
.375 oz Willamette 4.8%AA 5 mins

Dry hop 1 oz Cascade Pellets, 5.4%AA (10 days for me)


It's currently dry-hopping, but tastes lovely. The commercial brew is a very quaffable, moderately hopped IPA. According to Dan, Storm Brewing switched from NA 2-row to ESB Malt to get a more "authentic" English flavour. Take that as you will.

 

[Steadfast707]

I just stumbled across this thread. Thanks for the recipes I ended up with a one lb bag of Gambrinus and one of aromatic malt so I will be trying these out on small one gallon batches.