This was my second batch of homebrew. After losing this information for one of my batches, I’m posting my notes on each batch of beer I’ve brewed to share, and to document my progress and alterations to each recipe.

Extra Special Bitter kit #1021 from Northern Brewer. {ProMash Recipe}

Our ESB is quite possibly the ultimate hop experience. Goldings hops make sure you’ll know this beer from across a room while wearing a blindfold. All this is balanced with a judicious amount of gold malt syrup and a sweet, fruity yeast strain.

Specialty Grains

• 1 lb. Simpson’s Crystal

Fermentables

• 3.15 lbs. Briess Gold Malt Syrup @ 60 min.
• 3.15 lbs. Briess Gold Malt Syrup @ 15 min.

Boil Additions

• 2 ozs. Willamette @ 60 min.
• 1 oz. Kent Goldings @ 15 min.
• 1 oz. Kent Goldings @ 5 min.

Yeast

• Wyeast #1968 London ESB Yeast

Stats

• Brewed: 29 March 2008.
• O.G.: 1.047, right where the kit said it should be.
• Racked: 14 April 2008 @ 1.015
• Bottled: 20 April 2008.
• F.G.: 1.014, around 4.5% ABV.

Notes

Drank most of this way too soon, too. This came out quite nice, especially since I let it condition in the bottle properly. Racking to secondary was mostly so I could start another batch in the primary. Still came out nice and balanced, a good session beer that I’ll probably take on again.