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Classic ESB
Extra Special Bitter - All Grain
Recipe Description
This will be my first all grain brew and my first ESB recipe. Not going for anything fancy here. Just delicious beer.
Ingredients
- Grains/Fermentables
- 8 lbs (3.63 kg) English Mild (4 °L)
- 1 lbs (0.45 kg) Crystal 60 (60 °L)
- 4 oz (113.4 g) Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0 °L)
- Hops
- 1 oz (28.35 g) Brewer's Gold 9.2% AA (Boil - 60 mins)
- 1 oz (28.35 g) East Kent Golding 5.5% AA (Boil - 15 mins)
- 1.25 oz (35.44 g) East Kent Golding 5.5% AA (Boil - 0 mins)
- Miscellaneous
- 1 tsp (4.93 mL) Irish Moss (Boil - 15 mins)
- Yeast
- London ESB Ale Yeast (Wyeast 1968) (Liquid)
Directions
Mash at 153 °F (67 °C) for 60 minutes.
Single infusion mash. Add hops and irish moss at times indicated. Cool and pitch yeast.
Hold in primary fermentor for 21 days at 68 °F (20 °C).
Allow to carbonate and age for 14 days.
If you started brewing this beer today you could be drinking it by June 25, 2012. Start brewing this recipe.
mlavin
completed on Mar 05, 2012 
mlavin
