Rating System

1 - don't waste valuable beer calories on me
2 - tasty, walter approves
3 - so good you should have it for breakfast

Saturday, June 6, 2015

British Bitter

5 gallon extract (Northern Brewer)

0.5 lb Simpsons Cara Malt

1 lb Golden Light DME
3.15 lbs Maris Otter LME (late addition; 15 min.)

1 oz UK Kent Goldings @ 6.47% AA (60 min.)
0.5 oz UK Kent Goldings @ 6.47% AA (15 min.)
0.5 oz UK Kent Goldings @ 6.47% AA (1 min.)

WLP005 British Ale Yeast

Pitched: 6/6/15 OG 1.035
Secondary: 6/20/15 SG 1.010
Kegged:

Notes: A very slow start, with barely any action after 48 hours, but then steady fermentation for over a week -- never incredibly vigorous but with regular CO2 bubbling.

Something went wrong along the way with this beer, and it developed a very strong "off" taste like iodine, that did not go away -- indeed it seemed to become stronger in the keg. I ended up getting rid of the entire batch.

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