True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #3 Best Bitter With Herefordshire Goldings

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 Best Bitter showcasing Goldings Hops, grown in Herefordshire. Complimented with malts from the wonderful Simpsons Malts. Expect a deep copper colour with delicate and lightly spicy aromas.

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Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Brown Malt
Simpsons Malt – Crystal T50
Simpsons Malt – Finest Pale Maris Otter
Goldings (Herefordshire) T90 Pellets 100g
SafAle S-04 11.5g (1 packs)

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Method

Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): Special Bitter or Best Bitter
Batch Size: 23l
Original Gravity: 1.047
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV %: 4.5
IBU: 31
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 67
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:

20g Goldings Hops @ 60mins (15 IBU)
30g Goldings Hops @ 5mins (10 IBU)

Whirlpool / hop stand:

30g Goldings Hops @ 0mins – 80c – 15mins

Yeast: SafAle S-04
Fermentation temperature/steps: 19c 7-10 days

Secondary additions:

20g Goldings Hops – Dry Hop after fermentation, contact time of 48 hours before packaging.

Ensure you use kettle finings for this recipe as you will want a beer which is bright. Once packaged, allow some condition on the beer for a few weeks before tucking in!