second AG brew: overlord ESB

[Chad Keven]

Having recieved an awesome book for Christmas (home brew by Doug Rouxel and Sara Paston-Williams, Thanks Lorelle and Elaine) I have been itching to try one of the recipes, I settled on "Overlord extra special bitter"  the format of the recipes in the book are a little wierd so I have played with and tweaked the recipe using the "hopville beer calculus website" check out this recipe! Overlord esb recipe I also substituted the Hops for Super alpha and Hallertau aroma which I already had in the freezer.

my Mate Bomba and I picked up my portable mini brewery (mounted on plastic forklift pallet) so we could brew at his place (it sucks not having a shed)

 

this brew was much less of a circus than the IPA a few weeks previous see photos, we felt as though we were really following a method and the recipe closely. the only thing that was a bit out was the IBU which ended up at 42! instead of 40, which is at the extreme end of the scale!!

its now bubbling harder than Michael Jackson's chimpanze in my keg fermenter

 

should taste good after 6 weeks or so.

 

cheers

[Sam]

How did the Overlord ESB turn out? I have the same book and was thinking of trying that recipe for my first all grain brew soon, try any of the other recipes in that book?

[jt]

Interesting looking about hopville and seeing who's brewing with Super Alpha .. amongst all the other good stuff.

 

So how did this one turn out ?

 

cheers, jt

[Chad Keven]

best brew ive done in my limited all grain experience, it had a great malt profile with the chocolate super alpha gave it a real edge too. i find the hopville thing really handy for manipulating recipes. i will be doing this one again, might even do it next, just waiting on some welding at the moment

[Kieran Haslett-Moore]

I love Superalpha . not sure I would use it in an ESB tho.