True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #6 – Ordinary Bitter with Harlequin Hops

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!

This ordinary bitter reminds of us of long days in the summer, pub gardens and pints of cask beer with delicate floral, hay and peach notes.

This recipe showcases the glorious hop Harlequin, a newer UK variety which has bountiful notes of peaches and berries.

The slightly warmer fermentation temperature also encourages fruit esters to be formed from the yeast. This beer will need a period of time to condition after it has been packaged and we would recommend you use finings in the kettle to enhance a brighter beer.

If you have access to a beer engine then you could serve this cask style for an authentic beer garden experience!

Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Heritage Crystal Malt
Warminster Floor Malted Low Colour Maris Otter
Harlequin T90 Pellets (60 grams)
SafAle S-04 11.5g (1 packs)

Method

Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): Ordinary Bitter
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.009
ABV %: 4%
IBU: 30
Mash efficiency: 80

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:

10g Harlequin @ 60min
10g Harlequin @ 30min
10g Harlequin @ 5min

Whirlpool / hop stand:

30g Harlequin @ 80c for 15min

Yeast: SafAle S-04
Fermentation temperature/steps: 20c 7-10 days followed by a 2-4 week period of conditioning post packaging