Description
These kits include all grains, hops, and yeast needed to brew the recipe according to the instructions found in CAMRA’s Essential Home Brewing book.
Thornbridge – Chiron
Thornbridge’s first beers were brewed in 2005, in the grounds of Derbyshire’s Thornbridge Hall. The 10-barrel kit is still in place today and is used to produce small batch recipes, but the main brewing operation switched to a new site in Bakewell in 2009. As winner of over 350 national and international awards, Thornbridge has a reputation for putting quality at the forefront of everything it produces and their state-of-the-art brew house and lab is the envy of small breweries up and down the country. Their range spans immaculately clean German-style lagers all the way through to robust imperial stouts whilst their innovation range covers an extensive barrel ageing programme, which yielded a gold medal in the 2016 World Beer Cup.
Thornbridge’s flagship pale ale, Chiron is a pale golden colour and weighs in at 5% ABV. A wonderfully balanced combination of citrusy hops offer notes of apricots and tangerines. The malt sits underneath offering a light biscuit flavour without being sweet. The bitterness is sufficient to cleanse the palate without drying, making for a sessionable drinking experience.
Ingredients Included
Crisp Pale Ale Malt
Crisp Caramalt
Crisp Pale Wheat Malt
Weyermann® Munich Malt I
Perle Pellets
Cascade Pellets
Amarillo Pellets
Columbus Pellets
Chinook Pellets (35 grams)
WLP001 Californian Ale Yeast
Method
Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style Pale Ale
Batch Size: 20L
Original Gravity: 1050
Final Gravity: 1012
ABV %: 5
IBU: 40
THE MASH
Temperature °C: 66
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C:
Out time (mins):
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60
Additions and timing:
Perle 60mins 10g
Cascade 0mins 50g
Amarillo 0mins 20g
Columbus 0mins 10g
Chinook 0mins 10g
Secondary additions and timing:
Amarillo 5 days 25g
Cascade 5 days 25g
Chinook 5 days 25g
Yeast: WLP001
Fermentation temperature/steps: Pitch at 16c and ferment at 22c
Comments:
This kit brews 20ltrs of beer. Full recipe details can be found in the CAMRA’s essential Guide to Home Brewing.
Thornbridge’s flagship pale ale, Chiron is a pale golden colour and weighs in at 5% ABV. A wonderfully balanced combination of citrusy hops offer notes of apricots and tangerines. The malt sits underneath offering a light biscuit flavour without being sweet. The bitterness is sufficient to cleanse the palate without drying, making for a sessionable drinking experience.
Mitchell Ling –
Another great kit but watch out for the dry hop timings The original published recipe shows all dry hops @ 5 days and not split between 5 & 9 days as shown on the MM website
Robert Neale –
Thanks for pointing that out Mitchell, we have now sorted the instructions on the webpage.
craig hardiman (verified owner) –
Clean crisp refreshing. If your not into your super hop forward ales then get this in your basket. I think the yeast choice helped make this what it is. Id brew it again cause its just so easy to drink