Home Brew Competition December 2017.

[IainM]

Well I must say I am very chuffed.
A big thanks to Ian for judging and the feedback and congrats the other competitors.

Contrats again. It really was a fine bitter. I've never tried GP75 hops before but they packed a lot of flavour in. It really needed the melanoidin and dark crystal to carry it. As well as a good overall impression, it ticked all the boxes in the style guide.

 

[BeerCat]

Well done everyone. I wanted to enter this one but unfortunately my IPA was not drinkable.

 

[Zephyr259]

For those interested my beer was the London Bitter from Greg Hughes book, slightly tweaked and scaled back to 15 L, brewed in a Grainfather.

Malt:
Pale (GEB Irish) - 3 kg
Crystal (150 EBC) - 300 g
Black Malt - 50 g

Mash at 66c for 60 mins

Hops (Pellet):
20 g Challenger (8.5%) - 60 min
10 g Fuggles (4.8%) - 10 min
1 tsp Irish moss - 15 min
10g East Kent Goldings (6%) - 0 min (10 - 15 min whirlpool and stand to allow for easier pumping)

OG: 1.048
FG: 1.012
ABV: 4.7%
IBU: 27

Yeast: Wyeast 1099 Whitbread Ale
Fermented at 20c for 2 weeks

Batch priming with 4.4 g/l of table sugar, carbonated at 20c then held in cool cupboard (+/- 10c). Comp bottle had about 3 months age.