A recipe pack containing all the ingredients to make a clone, all grain version of Hook Norton Hooky Bitter.
This recipe is based on the one laid down in the latest edition of Graham Wheeler's book, "Brew your own British Real Ales" and is the 23 litre version.
This Pack Contains:
Crushed Maris Otter Pale Malt
Crushed Black Malt
Flaked Maize
White Sugar
Crystal Malt
Challenger Hops - Primary Boil Hops
Fuggle Hops - Late Boil Hops
Irish Moss
Muntons Gold Brewing Yeast
Basic Instructions for use
There are two bags of grain. The larger grain pack contains 3kgs of crushed Maris Otter Pale Malt, whilst the Crystal Malt, Black Malt and Flaked maize used for colouring and flavouring is premixed into the smaller of the two packs, together with the remainder of the Maris Otter grain. These two packs will need to be mashed in an appropriate mash tun with a minimum capacity of 20 litres.
A small amount of White brewing sugar is included to increase the fermentatble sugar without using more pale malt and thus altering the body and flavour. In both the all grain and malt extract versions, this should be added to the boiler with the hops.
Challenger hops are supplied as the main bittering hops and should be added at the start of the boil, whilst the secondary, aroma hop is Fuggle, which is added as a post boil hop. I have adjusted the specified amount of various hops in the pack to try and match the stated EBU in the recipe as the original was created with hops that had an different AA level than hops from the current harvest.
Sufficient Irish Moss is provided to create the Hot Break precipitation of the proteins and help produce a clearer finished beer.
