{"id":139,"date":"2017-12-16T20:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T20:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/?p=139"},"modified":"2017-12-22T12:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:44:04","slug":"pride-of-warwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Pride of Warwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst I generally like to try new things, if you find something you like it&#8217;s good to keep coming back to &#8211; even if to see how consistent you can be. This Best Bitter recipe from Gordon Strong&#8217;s Modern Homebrew Recipes is one such brew.<\/p>\n<p>I originally brewed this as a gift for a friends 40th, and the did a repeat for my Dad&#8217;s 70th later in the year. The first batch went during the party celebrations. The 70th celebrations were a little more subdued so my Dad managed to bottle some which has continued to improve. The third batch was for myself to add alongside the Oatmeal Stout for Christmas \/ New Year relaxation.<\/p>\n<h2>Pride of Warwick Best Bitter<\/h2>\n<p>Source: Modern Homebrew Recipes: Gordon Strong<\/p>\n<h3>Water<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Burtonised<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grains<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DSC_1291-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DSC_1291-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DSC_1291-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DSC_1291-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grain bill (minus the black malt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Maris Otter<\/li>\n<li>Flaked Maize<\/li>\n<li>Victory Malt<\/li>\n<li>Crystal Malt<\/li>\n<li>Black Malt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Hops<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>East Kent Goldings<\/li>\n<li>Challenger<\/li>\n<li>Fuggles<\/li>\n<li>Styrian Goldings (dry hop)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Yeast<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Wyeast 1028 London Ale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\n<h3>Brew Day<\/h3>\n<p>In his book Gordon often omits the dark grains from the mash, adding them at the Vorlauf stage. I have tried both\u00a0this and the usual approach of mashing all grains together and can&#8217;t really tell much difference.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon also bases his recipes on RO water &#8211; specifically adjusted to the recipe.\u00a0 I do treat my water (Burtonise \/ Munichise \/ Dublinise) but am not quite at the stage of specific adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>Fermented for 1 week at 20\u2103, then for a further 2 weeks at 12\u2103. Dry hopped for 4 days with the Styrian Goldings following primary. Then transferred to Corny keg and carbonated at 6\u2103 in the kegerator.<\/p>\n<h3>Tasting Notes<\/h3>\n<p>The first two brews have turned out really well.\u00a0 To be fair the first was drunk a little too early &#8211; so was more in a cask style with low levels of carbonation.\u00a0 I will need to come back and update the notes for batch three as it isn&#8217;t fully ready yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst I generally like to try new things, if you find something you like it&#8217;s good to keep coming back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areeves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}