English Bitter is one of the beer styles that I latched onto when I first started brewing. A bit of hops, a bit of malt, with lots of leeway in every direction.
The English Bitter
Category: bitter
Prelude to a Disruption
Making big beers, really big beers, is not something that I have done a lot of.
Done a few “bigger” ones like the Black Feather stout and the Woot!zenbock (which reminds me, I need to re brew that one)
Just a few months ago we did a barleywine that has been bulk aging for a few months, and is ready to be bottled up.
But nothing as big as the one we have planned for tomorrow. The 11.5%, 93 IBU Imperial Stout known as Disruptor.
Looking back at one of my failed attempts at a big stout, I found that you really really need to have a fully active, ready for action yeast cake ready to attack. As big as the yeast needs to be, a starter is a waste of time. So I made a small Ordinary Bitter just to produce the yeast cake needed.
I didn’t wanna get too big and stress out the yeast. So I kept it small. I went with:
6.75 lb 2row
.5 lb 120
.5 oz target hops @60
.5 target hops @10
Windsor yeast
That’s it.
Put her in the fermenter about 2 weeks ago so she is ready to keg right before we dump tomorrow’s stout on the cake.
I am worried about an active Windsor cake with this much food for it. We may have thermo nuclear meltdown
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