Bitter with Bobby

New Year's Day Bobby and I brewed two beers, a bitter and a farmhouse. I'll cover the bitter here and the farmhouse in the next post.

The bitter is a fairly straightforward British Bitter with the exception of the hops. We had to substitute Fuggles and East Kent Golding for Willamette and Glacier. Hops are still a bit hard to get.

Recipe

2 lb Amber DME
2 lb Light DME
.5 lb ultralight LME
1 lb 40L crystal malt

Steeped the grain at 155 F for 30 minutes. Boil. Add extracts. 60 minute boil time.

Hop additions:
1 oz Willamette with extracts
1 oz Willamette - 30 min remaining
1 ts irish moss - 15 min remaining
1 oz Glacier - 7 minutes remaining
1 oz Glacier - 1 minute remaining

I added water to the fermenting buckets earlier that morning and put them outside (its was in the low 30's that day). After a short ice bath for the brew pot, the wort was dumped into the cold water and it went right to yeast pitching temp. So after topping of to 5.5 gallons and aerating, the yeast was pitched and bucket sealed.

original gravity 1.040