Gyle 090 – Anonymous

Imperial brown ale. Batch size scaled up to 20 litres. Some hops substituted due to availability.

MALT:

Crisp Finest Maris Otter Pale – 6kg

Crisp Light Munich Malt – 750g

Crisp Brown Malt – 600g

Weyermann Carafa Special Type 1 Malt – 75g

Crisp Light Crystal – 375g

Muscovado sugar – 1.5kg / 10 minutes

HOPS:

Columbus – 60g / 60 minutes

Simcoe – 30g / 5 minutes

Centennial – 30g / 5 minutes

Columbus – 45g / Flameout

Simcoe – 30g / Flameout

TARGET VOLUME: 20 litres

STRIKE VOLUME: 29.4 litres

SPARGE VOLUME: 0 litres

FERMENTER VOLUME: 20 litres

PACKAGED VOLUME: 50x 330ml bottles

ADJUNCTS: 1x campden tablet, 1x protofloc tablet

MASH: 68°C / 60 minutes

BOIL: 60 minutes

YEAST: 2x Safale US-05 with oxygen

FERMENTER TEMP: Basement ambient 18°C, dropped to around 16°C in the kitchen

OG: 1.097

FG: 1.021

ABV: 10%

CARBONATION: 2.0 units

INGREDIENT COST: £23.48

BOTTLE COST: 46p

BREWING NOTES: Had to swap the Warrior and Summit hops for Columbus due to availability. Lots of sugar left in the kettle after transferring to the fermenter. Probably too strong. Less sugar next time. Some fermentation issues with it currently being too cold.