So who's brewing this weekend?

[Cheshire Cat]

Brewing up a British Golden Saturday morning with Mosaic and Citra hops.

What makes it British?
Also we don’t have Golden Saturday Mornings this time of year.

 

[jdauria]

What makes it British?
Also we don’t have Golden Saturday Mornings this time of year.

The British malts and yeast. It's for sending to competitions and here in the US, the BJCP style guidelines rule and US citrusy malts are more common these days, per the style guidelines.

 

[Scottyward]

Doing a Baltic Porter this Sunday morning. Love this recipe so much, I'm keeping it on a tap year around.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

The British malts and yeast. It's for sending to competitions and here in the US, the BJCP style guidelines rule and US citrusy malts are more common these days, per the style guidelines.

Surely BJCP guidelines for a British beer don’t allow non British hops? Is it just about ABV, IBU’s and SRM’s if so you could make an amber lager and call it Best Bitter.
So my recipe for Best would be
90% Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner malt
5% CaraMunich 2
5% Special B
Centennial and Cascade hops
US05 yeast.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

BJCP Best Bitter​

Best Bitter

4.5% / 10.5 °P

Malts (3.66 kg)​

3.3 kg (90.2%) — Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner — Grain — 1.9 SRM
180 g (4.9%) — Weyermann Caramunich III — Grain — 71 SRM
180 g (4.9%) — Castle Malting Chateau Special B — Grain — 150 SRM

Hops (55 g)​

25 g (27 IBU) — Centenial 7.3% — Boil — 60 min
30 g (10 IBU) — Cascade 6.3% — Boil — 10 min

Yeast​

1 pkg — Fermentis US-05 Safale American Ale 81%

 

[Pennine]

Surely BJCP guidelines for a British beer don’t allow non British hops? Is it just about ABV, IBU’s and SRM’s if so you could make an amber lager and call it Best Bitter.
So my recipe for Best would be
90% Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner malt
5% CaraMunich 2
5% Special B
Centennial and Cascade hops
US05 yeast.

Seems to be trend, juicy bitters? Sounds kind of interesting, I might give a bitter with Citra and Mosaic a shot and try it on the engine.

https://www.beerandbrewing.com/style-school-cask-bitter

 

[jdauria]

Surely BJCP guidelines for a British beer don’t allow non British hops? Is it just about ABV, IBU’s and SRM’s if so you could make an amber lager and call it Best Bitter.
So my recipe for Best would be
90% Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner malt
5% CaraMunich 2
5% Special B
Centennial and Cascade hops
US05 yeast.

You would be surprised, looking at the 3 Bitter categories and for aroma they describe floral, earthy, resiny or fruity hop aroma, but under characterstic ingredients, while it says English finishing hops are traditional but any hops are fair game; if American hops are used, a light touch is required.

English IPA does say English hops, dark mild says any hops since their character is muted, English brown just says English hops are most authentic, English porter does not mention anything and neither do the Stout categories.

 

[HM-2]

I don't think he would be surprised, it's widely known that a lot of the BJCP guidelines are, well, wrong.

Personally I agree that British Bitters are only true to style when brewed with British hops. It's not like that doesn't give you massive latitude.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I’ve never read the BJCP guidelines and I wouldn’t make my imaginary bitter above. But using Brewfather I find them useful for many non UK styles. I have also used non UK hops Cascade, Willamette, Styrian Golding in English beers but where they are used the Mail and Yeast in British. I like Cascade in Roosters Yankee, SG in Landlord and others and Willamette in Tribute.

 

[seatazzz]

Just mashed in a plain old blonde to get the pipeline back up. Bought grain yesterday, have some good slurry and Cascade hops to do it up right. Should be a nice boring brewday (she said with fingers crossed that no mishaps today).

 

[Pehlman17]

 

[HM-2]

I’ve never read the BJCP guidelines and I wouldn’t make my imaginary bitter above. But using Brewfather I find them useful for many non UK styles. I have also used non UK hops Cascade, Willamette, Styrian Golding in English beers but where they are used the Mail and Yeast in British. I like Cascade in Roosters Yankee, SG in Landlord and others and Willamette in Tribute.

Cascade presents as pretty British a lot of the time (and UK Cascade is a thing) and Willamette were literally bred from British hops to replicate their flavours.