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
Peter Naylor (verified owner) –
Guys, there are no weights for the grain bill or instruction sheet included. How do I get the different weights for fermentables?
Robert Neale –
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. When you purchase the kit the bags containing the grains will have the exact weights on them for reference.
craig hardiman (verified owner) –
Peter the weights are all on the labels on the bags the malts are in provided by maltmiller. And i brewed it just off the listing i didnt find any need to buy the book. Pls dont rate this recipe down cause your unsure what your doing