Double fuggle best bitter

Double fuggle best bitter

Ern sent me some british fuggle hops. I didn't really know what fuggles taste like so i made this to give me an idea. It is bloody great and will be going into a competition later in the year. I could drink a lot of this.

Method

Steep grains at 155oF for 30 min. Bring to boil and add LME/DME/sugar, dissolve bring back to the boil and add NB hops. Add Fuggles and irish moss at respective timepoints. After 1 hour transfer pot to sink of water and add icicles from the neighbours house until wort is room temp. Strain wort into sterile fermenter, aerate and add yeast. Ferment at 68oF. After primary ferm is over, transfer to secondary for a week before bottling as per heftybird stout.
This will be about 4.5%ABV so you can drink shitloads of it.

Ingredients

  • For a 19 litre batch
  • 360g 60o crystal malt
  • 100g carapils
  • 5lb pale LME
  • 1lb pale DME
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1oz northern brewer hops (8%AA) 60min
  • 35g Fuggles (4%AA) 30 min
  • 35g Fuggles (4%AA) 5min
  • Irish moss at 10 min
  • California ale yeast

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4 Comments

Heftybird said on January 27, 2011 at 5:31a.m.
Upon drinking it my wife Karen raised her eyebrow and announced 'well thats going to the fair then!'. It really is very lovely.
Deecoleman said on January 27, 2011 at 12:41p.m.
What is LME and DME?
Philfyern said on March 4, 2011 at 6:48a.m.
ME = malt extract

Unless you want to spend half a day to a day soaking grains at various temperatures to enzymatically break down starches into sugar, which you can then ferment, then you have to get the sugars from somewhere for the alcohol.

So you can buy some liquid malt extract (LME) in a tin, use the whole tin as it wont keep once open. Then top up to the right amount with dried malt extract (DME) which you can store once open.

Philfyern said on March 4, 2011 at 7:01a.m.
And the point of using a malt extract, rather than sugar, is cos it tastes nicer.

You can buy Pale, Amber, Dark, Extra Dark extracts, but we suggest buying light/pale malt and getting colour and flavour from the other grains you boil in the bag