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Extra, extra, extra special

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With the Bavarian banners still hanging in the backyard, I took a cool fall Saturday to brew an Extra Special Bitter. It's actually a little chilly in my basement beer cellar for fermenting the warm ale yeast of an ESB. But I'm a big fan of English ales, and I'm hoping this hoppy bitter will help keep us in good spirits come the New Year when the days are very short indeed.

Recipe for Extra Special Bitter

Special Bitter, All-Grain

5 gallon batch

Ingredients

Grains
9 lbs Maris Otter Pale Malt
1 lb Simpsons Medium

Hops
2 ozs Williamette, 60 mins
1 oz East Kent Goldings, 15 mins
1 oz East Kent Goldings, 5 mins

Yeasts
London ESB Ale, Wyeast Labs 1968

Original recipe from Northern Brewer.

Mash schedule

Add 12.50 qts water @ 170.8° F
Saccharification Rest for 60 min @ 153.0° F
Add 5.87 qts water @ 212.0° F
Mash out for 10 min @ 170.0° F
Sparge 15.95 qts water @ 170.00 °F

Fermentation schedule

Primary 14 days @ 68.0° F
Secondary 14 days @ 72.0° F
Bottle/Keg 14 days @ 74.0° F

Stats

  • ABV: 6.94 percent
  • IBU: 54.54
  • Boil Size: 6.53 Gals
  • Color: 10.2 SRM
  • Estimated preboil OG: 1.040
  • Actual postboil OG: 1.047
  • Efficiency: 80.84 %

Stats by iBrewmaster

By Tom on 11/12/2016

Stage: Brewing


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