• Please visit and share your knowledge at our sister communities:
  • If you have not, please join our official Homebrewing Facebook Group!

    Homebrewing Facebook Group

What's the beer you keep brewing over and over again?

Homebrew Talk

Help Support Homebrew Talk:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Friends who hate ales love this, and I don't mind it at all! Very drinkable strong bitter


Fermentables
Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
16 lb United Kingdom - Golden Promise 37 3 79%
3.5 lb American - Victory 34 28 17.3%
0.75 lb United Kingdom - Extra Dark Crystal 160L 33 160 3.7%
20.25 lb Total
Hops
Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
2 oz Perle Pellet 8.2 Boil 60 min 28.82
2 oz Hallertau Hersbrucker Pellet 4 Aroma 5 min 2.8
Hops Summary
Amount Variety Type AA
2 oz Hallertau Hersbrucker Pellet 4
2 oz Perle Pellet 8.2
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Temp Time
30 qt Infusion 153 F 90 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.5 qt/lb
Yeast
Danstar - Nottingham Ale Yeast
Attenuation (avg):
77%
Flocculation:
High
Optimum Temp:
57 - 70 °F
Starter:
Yes
Fermentation Temp:
62 °F
Pitch Rate:
0.5 (M cells / ml / ° P)
292 B cells required
Target Water Profile: Balanced Profile II
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
150 10 80 150 160 220
Notes
Pours a deep copper red, bready notes from the Victory, just enough bitter form the extra dark crystal. Very drinkable and this just made my rotation to keep on hand!
 
Redhook Double Black Stout.

1) SWMBO choice, initially a AHS kit, now on fourth with fifth in the brew queue.
2) Not available locally.
3) Still better than every coffee stout/beer out there, and SWMBO has made me try everyone she has found.
 
My own Harvest Ale.
It's an APA with 20% wheat and 20% rye. Moderately hopped and dry hopped at conventional levels (no NEIPA hops bomb levels) with Cascade.
Kind of a classic west coast APA with wheat and rye.
It is absolutely delicious and is my go-to anytime beer.
 
Nothing on-tap currently due to career change and bought and sold homes. I stumbled across a recipe in Beersmith called "Brian's Best Bitter"(long story here) and have almost always had it on tap. Love the taste and MAN is it good. Never knew I was a fan of bitters until I HAD to make this beer. Once I get my pipeline up and going it will always be on-tap. :)
 
Same here. My motivation for going all grain and taking all aspects of brewing seriously. Ever feel you "nailed it?"

Its changed over the years of course, but in the old days it was my favorite beer

I have come very close, but even my misses tend to be great great beer as well. Always a win to me.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top