a question and a thought, though - what did you not like about the carared (just curious) and if it were my beer and I planned to age it, I would have some early kettle bittering additions since those seem to last longer than late hop bitterness which fades quicker for me.
I have been reading alot lately about this style, it seems like the style first cropped up in the early 1800’s in Burton-on-Trent as a strong lighter colored burton ale. The recipe I am looking at basing my future BW’s on is the Barclay Perkins 1839 recipe as written about on the ‘shut up about barclay perkins’ blog. It’s 100% base malt (mild malt specifically) parti-gyled and boiled for 4 hours to get the color right. The hops look like you are going for more of an american BW so I am sure it will be fine. Although I know alot of folks like the American BWs to be much lighter in body than the English types, and higher hopping rates as well (although reading that blog it looks like the historical strong burtons could be pretty highly hopped indeed). I did an all base malt BW back in january and with a 90 minute mash at 148 and the addition of 3 lbs of maple syrup I went from 1.096 to 1.016 and it’s still pretty chewy. You might want to think about either adding some simple sugar to dry it out or mashing even lower, or both.
I disagree on adding sugar - that grist will be perfect for ABW at 150df IMO - in fact, I think that grist looks perfect - a nice canvas for lots of american hops!
I’m outta of cara red and its a 1hr roundtrip to the lhbs. While I agree about the early kettle bittering additions, the FWH seem to lock-in just as well, and I plan on drinking 90% over the winter saving a 6pk for longterm.
Yep USA BW, but using the English yeast (huge cake).
SG1.103
1.020 after 1 month in primary.
FG 1.020
11% ABV
Attenuation
79.18% ADF 66.69% RDF
Transferred to keg and lagered for 6 months before adding dry hops.
http://www.southernhomebrew.com/ , that store is 151 miles away & near my other home & where I buy specialty grains. The gainesville store is a last-resort & only if I’m dying kinda place, thats 1hr rd trip
I would love to be able to save & age it that long but I know better… it just drinks too damn easy
