Baring the hops, I've been using pretty much the same basic ingredients for my beers up to now. Apart from changing the amount of crystal malt and torrified wheat, I haven't really experimented with any other malts yet. The beers I've been brewing come out pretty good on the hops side, but ignoring the hops have been a bit too basic for me and don't have much to say in the way of malt taste.
I don't know if any of you have ever had the Marble Lagonda IPA or Marble Tawny but these beers have such an awesome background taste .. everything blends together perfectly in them, so this is what I want to eventually acheive with my beers. I'll prolly never get anywhere near to making something comparable to a Marble beer but if I can get on the way to learning how to get good complex malty bases for my beers then that's a start!!
So my question to you all is basically .. What have you learnt about making a good basic bitter? - one that works well with lots of hops.
Thought I'd ask a pretty wide open question as the responses will hopefully be something a lot of us can learn from...
I don't know if any of you have ever had the Marble Lagonda IPA or Marble Tawny but these beers have such an awesome background taste .. everything blends together perfectly in them, so this is what I want to eventually acheive with my beers. I'll prolly never get anywhere near to making something comparable to a Marble beer but if I can get on the way to learning how to get good complex malty bases for my beers then that's a start!!
So my question to you all is basically .. What have you learnt about making a good basic bitter? - one that works well with lots of hops.
Thought I'd ask a pretty wide open question as the responses will hopefully be something a lot of us can learn from...