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Monthly Archive for December, 2007

English Bitter: Brew Day

Lately I’ve been really interested in cask-style English bitters, pale ales, and milds, ever since going to the New England Real Ale Exhibition last month. So today I’m brewing my first English-style Bitter, using a recipe for Bluebird Bitter from Beer Captured. Based on my usually terribly 60% efficiency, I’m aiming for this to be a […]

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Bitter Bottled

The Golden Bitter has been bottled. It hit target gravity just fine (~ 2 weeks in the secondary), though it only had .002 points to go. Next batch I’ll rack to the secondary earlier. This bitter has an off flavor reminiscent of the extract batches, which I’m thinking is a result of the grains being […]

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