Description
Dennis King is an experienced brewer and has placed in various competitions with a variation of this recipe.
Ingredients Included
Crisp Pale Ale Malt
Crisp Vienna Malt
Dingemans Aromatic Malt
Total Malt Bill 5kg
Vic Secret T90 Pellets (1 packs)
Bry-97 (1 packs)
Method
Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): Classic English-Style Pale Ale
Batch Size: 23ltr
Original Gravity: 1050
Final Gravity: 1012
ABV %: 5.0
IBU: 61
THE MASH
Temperature °C: 66
Length (mins): 90
Out temp °C: 75
Out time (mins): 10
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 90
Additions and timing:
15g Vic Secret for 90 mins
45g Vic Secret last 15 mins.
Secondary additions and timing:
40g Vic Secret Dry Hop
Yeast: Bry-97
Fermentation temperature/steps: 20c until FG
Comments:
Dennis King is an experienced brewer and has placed in various competitions with this recipe. It also placed 2nd the Pale Ale/ESB class at The Homebrew Festival held on the 17th May 2014. See a review
Tony Pye (verified owner) –
This was my first time using Vic Secret hops and to be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’d never even drank a beer with these hops so it was a bit of a punt. Originally, I started with 16 litres for the mash, but added a further 3 litres to get the grain consistency right. I added a further 17 litres to the sparge and added the hops as instructed. 5 days later, I added the dry hops and waited a further 3 days before bottling. I opened the first bottle last night (a month later) and was very pleasantly surprised at how good the beer is. It is Pale Amber in colour, like a standard pale ale/light bitter: but the aroma and flavour from the hops is something else. I’d recommend it to anybody and will be ordering again. Fabulous.
timothy butler-henderson (verified owner) –
A simple to brew beer , although I used 20ltrs of water for mash and 15 for sparge and all went well. which even after 2 weeks in the bottle is superb. A fresh , refreshing ale with a great nose and fruity taste , highly recommended .