Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Brooklyn Bitter
Today I’m brewing Brooklyn Bitter a strong bitter loosely based Young’s Special London Ale. Brooklyn Bitter will not be as strong as Special London Ale as its intended for draft consumption and it will be a touch darker but I do intend to infuse some of the striking hop character that Special London Ale used to present.
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yeast pitched , I over shot my gravity alittle, 1060 so its definitly in SLA territory.
Say it ain't so - Special London emasculated?? My favourite bottled beer of all time, that one. I was worried about what Bedford would do to it but I hung on to a tiny little hope that they would maintain it as it was.
By the way, Happy New Year. I've joined the homebrewing fraternity now and my third batch should be going into the fermenter later today. All OK so far!
Martin
try it yourself, however thats the consensus in this house.
Hope the brews are turning out well.
So how did the Brooklyn Bitter turn out?
My Yankiwi Pale is currently cold conditioning. I plan to give it a couple of weeks at 2 degrees before bottling. I tasted a bottle of Birkby Bitter (batch #1) at the weekend after a couple of months of bottle ageing and it had developed nicely. Some nice blackcurranty/liquorice type notes.
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