Hi chaps,
sorry to pull up an old thread, but I'm looking to clone this Old Empire as i just love it in the bottle! i have little experience doing my own recipes so am looking for some major help, due to comment on here that you guys cant taste the Cascade, maybe its only used for bittering(although they dont say they do) or just mixed in with the late hops in such a small proportion that its flavour doesn't come through much?
With this in mind i came up with this 1st go at a recipe-
Recipe: Marstons Old Empire
Style: English IPA
Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 25.00 L
Boil Size: 30.11 L
Estimated OG: 1.059 SG
Estimated Color: 16.0 EBC
Estimated IBU: 54.9 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes
Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
6.20 kg Pale Malt, Golden Promise (5.9 EBC) Grain 99.52 %
0.03 kg Black (Patent) Malt (1100.0 EBC) Grain 0.48 %
33.00 gm Cascade [7.60 %] (90 min) (First Wort Hops) 24.6 IBU
33.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.60 %] (90 min) (FiHops 14.9 IBU
66.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.60 %] (10 min) Hops 9.2 IBU
33.00 gm Cascade [7.60 %] (10 min) Hops 7.6 IBU
66.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.60 %] (0 min) Hops -
I did do this with Fuggles but TBH i wouldn't be able to pick out the differences- i am going to do some single hop brews to acclimatise my palate! The black malt is just there to bump up the colour to fit in with Beersmith's colour guideline. Is the late Cascade hop addition likely to be noticeable through the late Goldings?
Thanks for the help guys!
Cheers
Steve