True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #7 – Dark Mild with Simpsons Malts

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 showcase of dark, roasted and crystal malts from the wonderful Simpsons Maltings as well as a little Carafa 1 from Weyermann. Balanced with floral notes from the distinguishable East Kent Goldings and clean fermentation from the yeast.

After fermentation is complete, this beer deserves some conditioning time. 2-4 weeks will allow the flavours of the malt bill to soften and amalgamate.

Ingredients Included

Weyermann Carafa Special Type 1
Simpsons Malt – Chocolate Malt
Simpsons Malt – DRC (Double Roast Crystal)
Simpsons Malt – Crystal T50
Simpsons Malt – Best Pale Ale Malt
Goldings (East Kent Goldings) T90 Pellets (40 grams)
WHC Old English – 11g (1 packs)

Method

Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): English-Style Dark Mild Ale
Batch Size: 23l
Original Gravity: 1.036
Final Gravity: 1.008
ABV %: 3.6
IBU: 18
Mash efficiency: 80

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:

20g East Kent Goldings @ 60min

Whirlpool / hop stand:

20g East Kent Goldings – 80c – 15mins

Yeast: Lalbrew Nottingham/WHC Old English
Fermentation temperature/steps: 20c – 7-10 days