A nice brew for new year – hoping for something along the lines of Worthington’s White Shield but with Boadicea instead of Challenger. It’s a bitter one (60IBUs or so), and packs a decent punch with an OG of 1058 (as it turned out).
The beer will be one for bottling and a decent maturation time given the level of bittering and the strength.
Water treatment again – pH of mash was spot on (as close as I can measure), and alkalinity was measured at 207mg/l CaCO3 this time. (38ml CRS, 9g Gypsum, 4g CaCL, 3g Epsom Salts and 1g NaCl).
Recipe as follows:
4.8kg Maris Otter
285g Crystal
550g Golden Syrup (replacing invert sugar)Hops:
40g Boadicea (7.6%) – 90min
25g Northdown (7.9%) – 90min
20g Northdown – 15min1 tsp Irish moss at 15min.
23L nicely in the FV using a big wodge of Brakspear yeast from the slurry of the last brew. I set up a flying starter with a bit of cooled runoff about 15min into the boil (and placed into the boiler cupboard to give it a kick start) – by the time it came to pitching, the yeast was trying to blow itself out of the Schott bottle it was in! With any luck, it’ll chew nicely through it – aim of 1014 for an FG.
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