Brewing an Extract English Bitter | Mini Mash | Homebrew Beer

Here I brew an English Bitter using Muntons hopped light sprymaly (dme), with a mini mash, some hops and grains.
Batch Volume: 19.5 L
Recipe
Malts (390 g)
200 g (8.4%) - Crisp Pale Ale - Grain - 7.9 EBC
120 g (5%) - Crisp Wheat Malt - Grain - 4.1 EBC
50 g (2.1%) - Thomas Fawcett Caramalt - Grain - 29.5 EBC
20 g (0.8%) - Crisp Black Malt - Grain - 1375 EBC
Other (2 kg)
2 kg (83.7%) - Muntons Hopped DME - Other - 15.8 EBC
Hops (70 g)
25 g (9 IBU) - East Kent Goldings (EKG) 6.8% - Boil - 15 min
10 g (4 IBU) - First Gold 8% - Boil - 15 min
15 g (4 IBU) - East Kent Goldings (EKG) 6.8% - Boil - 5 min
10 g (2 IBU) - East Kent Goldings (EKG) 6.8% - Aroma - 10 min hopstand @ 99 °C
10 g (2 IBU) - First Gold 8% - Aroma - 10 min hopstand @ 99 °C
Miscs
1 items - Protafloc - Boil - 15 min
Yeast
1 pkg - Crossmyloof General Ale Yeast

[@rayw9067]

Great video! I brew an “ordinary bitter” every year without fail one of my most favourite styles, low fizz not freezing cold love it

[@G-townbrewer]

Thanks! It's a lovely style a of beer and perfect for this time of year I find. Cheers!

[@Skid-Baxter]

Nice job on the beer. It's great that you didn't give up after it plotted to escape the barrel multiple times! I'd like to get a pressure barrel but they aren't available in the US unfortunately. Several brewtubers I watch use them regularly, and they seem like a wonderful way to dispense and enjoy homebrew. Cheers!🍺🍻

[@G-townbrewer]

Thanks Skid. The pressure Barrels can be a bit of pain in the backside (which puts a lot of people off using them), but they are fairly inexpensive, low fuss (usually) and serve a pint like a nice cask conditioned ale you'd find in UK pubs. Cheers!

[@stephenturton5397]

Well done, fantastic video, east Kent Golding's, are my favourite hops, I have a brew ready for kegging, Land lord, I also put in half a bag of DME and 200 g of brown sugar, can't wait to give it a try, cheers 🍺🍺

[@G-townbrewer]

Thanks for your comments. Kent golding are one of my favourite hops too, but I may be slightly biased being a Man of Kent (or is that a Kentish Man...). Cheers!

[@haydnmaxwell649]

Thanks for the video. Learning the trade, can i ask how you use the mash tun. I have never used one. Is the tun only used to soak the grains in a bag in boiling water ?

[@G-townbrewer]

You'll just need a pot big enough to mash the grains. Some grains just need steeping where temp control is not important, but in this recipe the pale ale malt needs mashing (holding at a specific temp for certain amount of time). A stock pot with a mesh liner makes a good mash tun for this purpose, but you'll obviously need something bigger if you move on to all grain brewing. You could leave out the pale ale malt in this recipe and just "steep" the other speciality grains if you wanted to make life easier for yourself. Cheers!

[@daleglover4755]

Great videos! What is your favourite kit so far?

[@G-townbrewer]

Thanks for watching. Favourite kit? That's a tough one....there are so many good kits out now...but for pure extract kits I'd say maybe between Festival Razorback, Festival Golden Stag or Dark Rock Session Series are ones that stick out for me or a pimped Coopers Kit.