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"Programmer's Elbow" from Brewing Classic Styles. I'm doing the all-grain version, and had to adjust the grain bill and hops a bit due to availability.

Recipe

Grain bill:

  • 12 lbs English pale
  • 0.5 lb Crystal 15
  • 0.25 lb Crystal 120

Mash & Boil:

  • Mash at 152 F for 60 minutes
  • Boil 60 minutes

Boil additions:

  • 2 oz. Kent Goldings (60 min)
  • 1 oz. Kent Goldings (0 min)

Fermenter additions:

  • 2 packs Wyeast 1968 London ESB

Brewing day

  • Actual recipe used, due to availability:
    • Replace 0.5 lb Crystal 15 with 0.25 lb each Caramel 10 and 20
    • Replace all hops with Fuggles
  • Mash with 18 qts
  • Sparge was sort of batch, sort of fly (I was winging it)
  • Boil volume: about 7.5 gallons
  • Forgot to add Irish Moss (oh well, it'll still be beer)
  • OG: 1.064
  • Just over 5 gal into the fermenter

Bottling day

  • FG: 1.016
  • 5.8% ABV
  • 38 12-ounce bottles
  • Primed with 3.3 oz corn sugar

Tasting notes

Timeline

  • 2015.01.11: Brew day
  • 2015.02.06: Bottling day
  • 2015.03.06: Discovered that all bottles were infected :-( Not sure what I did wrong: I bottled the BPA the same day, and that one was fine, so it was either something in the fermenter, or I failed to properly sanitize the bottling bucket in between batches.