True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #19 Neale’s Best Bitter

These all grain kits are all designed with one thing in mind, making great tasting beer at affordable prices. We’ve built and created this range to offer our first “core” range of all grain kits that represent either great ingredients, methods or beer styles which we adore.

All of them are 23 litre batches and come in at sensible strengths for the mid week beers or sessions at the weekend! Read our full blog post on this range here!

A sweet citrusy hop profile is complimented by toffee notes form the high quality malts used in this classic best bitter.

Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Premium English Caramalt
Simpsons Malt – Crystal T50
Simpsons Malt – Low Colour Maris Otter
Harlequin T90 Pellets (40 grams)
Goldings (East Kent Goldings) T90 Pellets (43 grams)
Fuggles T90 Pellets (25 grams)
WHC Dried Yeast – Saturated – 11g Packet (1 pack)

Method

Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): Special Bitter or Best Bitter
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.046
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV %: 4.5
IBU: 33
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 66
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

East Kent Goldings – 25g @ 60min
Fuggles – 25g @ 60min
East Kent Goldings – 18g @ 10min

Yeast: WHC Saturated – 1 Packet
Fermentation temperature/steps: 20c – 7-14 days primary fermentation

Secondary additions:

40g Harlequin – Dry Hop – Post Fermentation for 2 days before cold crashing and packaging.