ESB Recipe

Saturday I’ll brew my ESB.  Here are the grain & Hop Bills:

 

Grain Schedule	Quantity	Hops Schedule	Quantity
Pale Ale Malt :	9.5 Lbs.	Perle Hops :	.50 oz.
Wheat Malt :	1.25 Lbs.	Goldings Hops :	1.00 oz.
Crystal (80L) Malt :	.75 Lbs.	Cascade Hops :	.50 oz.
Special B Malt :	.50 Lbs.
Usual Suspects
Water	10 gallons	Irish Moss	1 tsp.

A lot of water for a five gallon batch, you say?  I will probably wind up with 5.5 gallons of beer, 1 gallon will boil away, there will probably be 2 gallons absorbed into the grain after mashing, and there will be a gallon or so left in the hot liqueur tank after mashing.  Better more than you need.  I put 6 gallons into the HLT at about 200°F to mash, heating it when I heat the water for the mash.  15 quarts at 161°F will go into the mash to mash at 150°F, and 9 quarts will go in at about 200°F to mash out at about 170°. About 4.5 gallons are usedat vortlauft to lauter after mashing is completed.  I’ll have a gallon or so left over in the HLT when I’m through.  Blah. blah, blah….

Now, it is time to transfer my Standard Bitters to the Secondary fermenter. More as it happens!