Doin' Brewin'- ESB

A while back I made an accidental ESB.  I was going for a hoppy red ale, but I didn't have enough hops on hand, so I went to a friends house and raided his freezer.  I ended up using Santiam hops, which I hadn't heard of.  Instead of bright American hoppiness, I got mellow noble hoppiness and a beer that more resembled and ESB.  While not what I was going for, it was delicious.  So I tweaked that recipe but went full on english hops with Fuggle and EKG.  This is most definitely a bitter English bitter.  Bitter up front but finishes with a nice toasty maltiness from the Victory malt.  I almost exclusively use US-05 yeast because it is consistent and clean, but this time I went for the S-04 english ale yeast.  It didn't disappoint and did just as it said it would; fermented fast but with a lower attenuation rate leaving me with a final gravity of 1.016.   The low final gravity contributed some nice sweetness to balance it out and a lower ABV of 4.4%.  So good!

Batch Size	5.000 gal	Boil Size	5.750 gal
Boil Time	60.000 min	Efficiency	70%
OG	1.050	FG	1.016
ABV	4.4%	Bitterness	22.9 IBU (Tinseth)
Color	11.0 srm (Morey)	Calories (per 12 oz.)	180

Fermentables

Total grain: 10.500 lb

Name	Type	Amount	Mashed	Late	Yield	Color
Cara-Pils/Dextrine	Grain	8.000 oz	No	No	72%	2.0 srm
Carared	Grain	16.000 oz	No	No	75%	20.0 srm
Pale Malt (2 Row) UK	Grain	7.000 lb	Yes	No	78%	3.0 srm
Victory Malt	Grain	2.000 lb	Yes	No	73%	25.0 srm

Hops

Name	Alpha	Amount	Use	Time	Form	IBU
Fuggles	4.5%	0.500 oz	Boil	60.000 min	Pellet	7.9
Golding	5%	0.500 oz	Boil	30.000 min	Pellet	6.7
Golding	5%	1.000 oz	Boil	5.000 min	Pellet	3.5
Fuggles	4.5%	0.500 oz	Boil	20.000 min	Pellet	4.8