hello every one and I hope everyone had a very nice Holiday week! I did :)
So I was driving from Central California to Northern California yesterday and I was listening to Drew…Dennys good friend. Youtube podcast… Drew mentioned a Mild with rye malt…so i got inspired
I didnt use it here …maybe I should???
so when i got to my destination I looked up Bitritish Milds… and I though… hmm let me try to formualte this…
So here goes: feel free to chew me up and spit me out… ha… maybe ill give you heartburn… ;D
My reason for using 2 base malts: I made 2 hot teas with both malts recently; ea. has their own wonderful taste… BUT mixed together…WOW!!!
Marris Otter: bready, buiscuity, brown color
Golden promise: Sweet, malty, light colored
And their UK/ Irish… so i think works here…
Method: All Grain
Style: Dark Mild
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 7.52 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.029 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 80% (brew house)
Original Gravity: 1.037
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV (standard): 3.41%
IBU (tinseth): 19.80
SRM (morey): 13.98
BU/GU ratio: .54 (Style:0.51)
Mash in: 153F @ 1.55qts Yeast: White labs WLP005
Fermentables Amount PPG °L Bill %
3 lb United Kingdom - Golden Promise 37 3 44.4%
3 lb United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale 38 3.75 44.4%
0.5 lb United Kingdom - Carastan (30/37) 35 34 7.4%
0.25 lb United Kingdom - Chocolate 34 425 3.7%
**6.75 lb Total **
Hops
Amount (Pellets)
0.75 oz East Kent Goldings Boil 60 min
1 oz Fuggles Aroma 5 min.
It looks good to me. Given that overall your grain bill is pretty simple I’m not concerned about the two base malts. My personal preference would be to have the fuggles at 60 minutes and the EKG as the late addition, probably a whirlpool.
I think it looks good too, especially using the English specialty malts. The late hop addition is a personal choice if you want it there, but typcially there is no hop aroma or flavor. 1 oz late in the boil could really impact a beer as “Mild” as this where you want the malty sweet/caramel/toffee/chocolate to be the stars.
Yup. This is all personal preference of course but a mild should only be bittered for balancing of the sweetness, not to give flavor or aroma. You might find that this hop schedule puts you closer to ordinary bitter territory rather than mild and it, in fact, might make a fantastic beer! Looks like a good recipe to me.
You two are probably right, I actually had bitter on my mind anyway. Still, if doing late hops at all I would still prefer EKG to fuggles in that slot.
The mix of base malts is a great idea. Dropping the late hop is best unless you want a hoppy little Mild thats cool too. Its your beer but sounds like you got a good plan now.
