Lord Crouchback's Special Bitter Help

[British_ale_head]

I'm planning on brewing on brewing Lord Crouchback's Special Bitter from "How to Brew" by John Palmer.
But when I enter the ingredients into Beersmith the style Guide comparison it doesn't look good. Can someone help and tell me where I've gone wrong?

The recipe I put in is:

• 6 lbs. of Pale Malt Extract
• 1/2 lb. of Crystal 60L Malt
• 1 oz of Northern Brewer at 60 minutes
• 3/4 oz of East Kent Goldings at 30
• 3/4 oz of East Kent Goldings at 15
• Whitbread English Ale

 

[sumbrewindude]

Under the style drop down change it to "Standard/Ordinary Bitter", that should bring the style guide lines back in.

Extra Special/Strong Bitter has higher limits, which is why you're outside of tolerance with the exception of color.

EDIT-

Any reason you have the recipe sized at 3gal (Batch size: 2.91)? Your amounts look more standard with a 5gal recipe, which would have a huge effect on your values, as you're nearly doubling the amount of extract/hops needed for the recipe. Change that batch size value back to 5gal, then size the recipe down to 3gal if you want that amount, that'll make the sliders come into value.

 

[Calder]

Batch size.

 

[Kingbogart]

Agreed it's the batch size. You have it set to about 3 gallons, but appear to have ingredients for a 5 gallon batch.

 

[British_ale_head]

Sorry for the long reply, Thanks everyone changed the batch size and it now looks a lot better. Hopefully this sunday will be my first brew day