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Friday, June 24, 2011

Bitter American 3.0

This is my third time brewing this.  I really like this brew.  I altered it some more after looking at 21A's webiste.  This is a strait up attempt at cloning their Bitter American Session Bitter Ale.  It's quite tasty.  I altered it quite a bit this time, so hopefully it's closer!  I wanted more of a malt taste this time so I upped the Golden Promise up quite a bit.  Also, Brew Brothers' new grain mill is working way better.  My efficiencies today were up to close to 80%!  I came in a couple points over expected gravity as opposed to being under like I have been for the last who knows how many batches.  So without further ado, here's the recipe:

5.5 Gallon Recipe

Grains:
6lb Simpsons Golden Promise
3lb GW 2-Row
2lb Munich Light
.5lb Crystal 40L

Hops:
1oz Warrior Pellet for 60m
.25oz Warrior Pellet for 30m
.5oz Cascade Leaf for 30m
1oz Cascade Leaf for 5m

1.5oz Centennial leaf  Dry Hop for 7 days in secondary
2oz Simcoe leaf Dry Hop for 7 days in secondary

Extras:
1tsp Irish Moss at 15m

Yeast:
Wyeast 1056 Slurry

Notes: Brewing was super easy again.  I was able to get some reading done while waiting for each stage to finish.  Gravity was supposed to come in at 1.053, it was actually 1.056, so my efficiency is way better.  Must be that new grain mill.  This should get down to around 1.012 or so for a final ABV of around 5%.  This will be an awesome summer evening ale to sit on the patio and thank God for how good he is.
Update 7/2/11: Racked to secondary and added 2oz of Simcoe and about .5oz of Centennial.  It was supposed to have 1.5oz of Centennial, but I only had .5oz left.  I'm sure it will still taste awesome!  Final Gravity was 1.011 giving the final ABV of 5.8%.  That's a lot higher than I wanted, so next time I'll back off the Golden Promise by about a pound.  Oh well, so goes the brewing life.
Update 7/8/11: Kegged plus a 22.
Tasting Update: I really like this.  It has a bigger malt taste thanks to the increase in the Golden Promise.  My wife isn't as big of a fan, so more for me I guess.  Next time I'll scale back the Golden Promise to 4.5 or 5 pounds to lower the malt for my wife as well as to lower the ABV.  Overall, another successful brew!
Second Tasting Update:  This has aged very nicely.  This is a fantastic ale.  Highly recommend brewing this!

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