Full recipe: www.clawhammersupply.com/blogs/moonshine-still-blog/english-bitter-homebrew-recipe

"There's not a whole lot going on...." Welcome to the world of traditional English beer! Worry when something is going on, its generally not good a good sign!

English bitters are so so good.

Here's the difference... the beer is mainly the same it just defers in alcohol content. What you guys just brewed is called an "Ordinary Bitter" it ranges from 3-4%... then comes the "Best Bitter" ranging from 4-5%... and finally the "Special Bitter" ranging from 5-6% give or take... Love your content!! Cheers guys, for a great 2021

You guys made 2020 the year of editing. Congrats. Can't wait till 2021 to see what you guys can do.

I have been hoping for an English bitter vid from you guys - worth the wait! Love the channel and happy new year from England xxx

Happy New Year! This was a good way to greet 2021. Cheers!

Loving these edits. Keep up the good work fellas! Love from Seattle.

You guys are awesome 👏🏼 me and my roommate are on our fourth batch now and we’ve learned a lot from this channel, really appreciate how informative you guys are and we never knew you could sanitize the inside packet as well haha

This channel is getting so good, keep it up my dudes

Man I get lost in y'alls videos. Thanks for always keeping it interesting and fun. Happy new year also give your edit team a crisp high five for me please.

We call that a session beer! Drink it’s all day and night

Historically, "mild" referred to beer that was served fresh as opposed to aged - called "stale" - as most were. This was in the age where brown beers such as porter were nearly all that was available, so today, descending from that lineage, milds are a low ABV brown beer with some toast and/or caramel flavors. Bitters are pale to amber beers without any prominent roasty flavors.

@AYoutubeAccountName

3 жыл бұрын

Another important distinction used to be price, low abv and small hop additions to milds made them cheaper and therefore the go to more often.

@oscarosullivan4513

Жыл бұрын

Milds range from 2’s to 7 percent abv and colour from straw yellow, golden yellow, golden amber, amber, copper red, rust red, ruby red, brown red, light brown, mid brown, dark brown to black

Gotta love some Burgess Meredith sprinkled in.

This is the best piss take of English beers. So funny.

Cheers happy new year ,staying thirsty here.

Loved the sabbath shirts 😍

Awesome video! Ok......just because I'm a huge dork..... where can I watch that Black and White film you guys played clips of? It looks like it would be fun!

Thanks for the shout out Clawhammer!

Such a good job

Guys, OMG !! That was educational and funny as f@ck! Thank you for all the hard work! Please keep them coming. I’m getting my buddies to buy into CHB/BIAB because of the simplicity and convenience. Your doing all this right!

To learn the metric conversion, Bob and Doug McKenzie taught me to "double it - then add 30°".

@zucchini4067

3 жыл бұрын

Coo OO coo coo coo coo COO COO COO!

oh my, i laughed so hard my tummy started hurting

Super happy to see this - my partner and I just spent the night drinking some home brewed bitters for New Years, and glad to see our recipe is similar! Though I added some brown sugar to get it to like 4.6% for funsies, though I’ll skip it next time.

@Sparks00psn

2 жыл бұрын

Add a bag of granulated and bump that shit up as high as it’ll go! 10%? 🤮. Get it up to 20!!!!

happy new year, from Russia with love!)

Cheerz to 2021 🍻

Epic!

According to wikipedia: British brewers have several loose names for variations in beer strength, such as ordinary, best, special, extra special, and premium. The difference between an ordinary and a best bitter is that one particular brewery's best bitter will usually be stronger than its ordinary, and premium bitter stronger again. Hop levels will vary within each sub group, though there is a tendency for the hops in the session bitter group to be more noticeable. Drinkers group the beers into five categories: Light alea low alcohol bitter, often bottled.[6]Session or ordinary bitterStrength up to 4.1% abv. A number of British beers with the name India Pale Ale will be found in this group,[citation needed] such as Greene King IPA, Deuchars IPA, Flowers IPA, Wadworth Henrys Original IPA, even though they little resemble the traditional style of IPA or its modern incarnation. IPAs with gravities below 1.040° have been brewed in Britain since at least the 1920s.[7] This is the most common strength of bitter sold in British pubs. It accounted for 16.9% of pub sales in 2003.[8]Best or special bitterStrength between 4.2% and 4.7% abv. In the United Kingdom bitter above 4.2% abv accounted for just 2.9% of pub sales in 2003.[8] The disappearance of weaker bitters from some brewers' rosters means "best" bitter is actually the weakest in the range.Premium or strong bitterStrength of 4.8% abv and over. Also known as Extra Special Bitter, or in Canada and the US, ESB. (ESB is a brand name owned by Fuller's Brewery in the UK)Golden aleGolden or summer ale has an appearance and profile similar to that of a pale lager. Hop Back Brewery brewed one of the first, called Summer Lightning, in 1989.

@chrishill3785

3 жыл бұрын

Where I'm from we call the strong stuff esb

You guys should look into the different varieties of invert syrups, it looks complicated but is actually really easy to make. They are highly fermentable but what gets left behind definitely leaves some character. I've been using it in all my bitters and a strong ale and will do some various scottish ales with it. Feel free to experiment with different types of cane sugar aswell.

I like this lane,, Now that you've found, stick to it,, It's rolling just fine now.

haha "not a lot going on"....for modern drinkers! at one time this was like the IPA of beer haha

The best just the best

I come from a town on the border of England and scotland so grew up with both the English Bitters & Scottish Ales. Both great stuff, but prefer the Scottish Ales. The bitter and 70/- are usually around 3.5% and great all day beer. Made my first home brew here in Melbourne just before Christmas - 20ltrs (or just over 5gal US) of Scottish 70/-. My Aussie friends loved it as it was just so different to their crap 3.5 beers (cough cough shite lagers that are now so popular - I'm not a big hop fan). So basically it got smashed in 3 days. Will make a English bitter next, thanks for the video I enjoyed it.

you guys are funny lol

Cheers from England! What was the clip from where the guy is describing the English pub?

@ClawhammerSupply

3 жыл бұрын

It's a PSA made by the US military describing how soldiers should conduct themselves in English pubs! kzread.info/dash/bejne/kXt3xdGag9SZqJc.html

Is Ross able to do a video on what it's like to be a brewer at a larger brewery? I'm always interested in hearing about that

@Jason-de5pl

3 жыл бұрын

As someone who works in one. Its a whole lot of paperwork, numbers, testing, and sensory on it through fermentation. Its alot more than homebrewing but when ypur paid for it rather than as a hobby its understandable

@ClawhammerSupply

3 жыл бұрын

Good question. We should ask!

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I love the editing. We’re you serving it cold or room temp?

@kiliang96

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you mean cellar temp (10-12°C) and not room temp hahaha most beers will taste really weird at room temp (22°C)

@Pik000

3 жыл бұрын

@@kiliang96 I guess 12C is the usual temp in England!

@ClawhammerSupply

3 жыл бұрын

Damn, forgot to mention that we served it at English cellar temp

Crazy how that Yank ww2 soldier is Rockys trainer mike

Crushed again boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F in Home run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My nitro coffee stout matches my red Kia. Where did I go wrong in the brewing slash car purchasing process? Eagerly awaiting your analysis. Cheers.

@phils6582

3 жыл бұрын

Not enough roasted malts?

@Pingwinho

4 ай бұрын

You're red-brown colourblind.

how long do i need to ferment a pale ale at home? 1 week in primary, 2 in secondary, 2 in bottles?

@Pingwinho

4 ай бұрын

Sounds about right, but I'd suggest no fewer than 3 weeks in bottles. It will better with aging mostly.

Wait... Did you guys get a Brazilian to read the Brazilian comment? The accent sounded right

@ClawhammerSupply

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, we actually did!

@aloha-rob

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

"This is like FourLoko from the Old Country...."

“This is like four loko from the old country” 😂

Bathams Is THE Best Bitter nothing else is even close that I've tried

The difference is just abv: weakest to strongest is mild, bitter, best, special etc. I grew up near an olde style brewery pub in England which had a very lenient policy on serving 16 year olds

@Pingwinho

4 ай бұрын

Mild is malt-focused with some roast character. The bitter family is more about balance, with prominent hop and fruity character as well.

Was that the dude off of Rocky?

@LukeTrinosky

3 жыл бұрын

"GET UP YA SON OF A BITCH... Cause Micky loves ya" I do believe it is!

Isn't that Ross in the Ugly Stik fishing video on KZread 🤔 i just seen it 4 the 1st time today

@ClawhammerSupply

3 жыл бұрын

Sure is! Ross is a mystical man of many talents.

@daviddrust1219

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClawhammerSupply well keep on fishing 🎣 Ross and making awesome videos with the Clawhammer Supply guys and other videos 👍👍

less ross more rachel! love the content, keep it going!

Love the video's guys, keep it up! But understand for others...yes they can just convert "American" into metric...but you guys are getting big and I'm seeing your subscribers growing....when editing just throw in a subtitle in the bottom with it in metric.... :-D Rock on guys.....PS: Love the Black Sabbath t-shirt!!!!!

@Pingwinho

4 ай бұрын

Besides, the US already runs on metric, they just convert it into freedom units.

Fun fact, if your fermenter falls sideways, it will empty through the airlock, been there done that

Rip Emmet

Northern Mild [Nth UK] - more roasty flavour, darker malts, less alcohol. Eeee By Gum. Pint of Ordinary Pint of Bitter Pint of ESB

70 F = 21 C lol cheers

I can't have a beer when I brew because I always end up smashed and ruining the recipy

They want y’all to do the hard work for them an convert it from imperial to metric. If is so easy y’all do it then! Pretty simple right! I mean I’ve only seen y’all international take 0.020” (.5 mm) convert it wrong to 0.002” (.050 mm). Just stick with the system y’all know let them convert it if it’s so easy!

google is not my friend, lets start a patreon for metric system, ok?

Mild is a bitter, with lower ABV

Look foreign friends! We use freedom measurements and also drive on the right side of the road. The way it should be.

@randomdaysy

3 жыл бұрын

Freedom units are just a poor imitation of British imperial measures

I’m British and I was recently in California and I’ve gotta say your beer is much better than our piss

@Pingwinho

4 ай бұрын

What a shit take

Bloody seppo units

There are two types of countries in this world. Those that use the metric system, and those that have been to the moon.

@uksam2000

3 жыл бұрын

Even NASA has seen sense and now uses the metric system!

Ross looking at the comment section later: 🍿

Mild means unaged (in oak casks) meaning it was sweet and had body left in the beer as Brettanomyces had not aged the beer. Mild existed before bitter. Bitter means exactly what it says, bitterness which balances the sweetness. So a mild is a young beer, a bitter is also a young beer, but is also bitter. Both beers have a separate history (different malting and brewing processes prevalent at the times the beers were popular, lower abv during wars, etc) which leads us to two beers, a mild (that is a dark beer with low hops that emulates an old beer style that existed before pale malt was made with coal fires in the industrial revolution) and a bitter, that is a copper colour which has a reasonable hop bitterness.

@Greg-ii6nq

6 ай бұрын

Also I loved the comment. Really all beer types (mild, bitter, IPA) are just marketing terms. As an example, the word ale originates from the Viking drink that was made with gruit, which did not include hops. Ale was then used to describe beer that was pale because pale ale sounds better than pale beer.

@Greg-ii6nq

6 ай бұрын

This applies really well to the difference between a bitter and a special or indeed and extra special bitter. They are just marketing terms.

The gunk pile.. dumping different things with different fluids on top of each other. If you start a new pandemic I’m gonna get mad.

From your Canuck fans, perhaps we are just used to it, but why can’t others just use a converter? Dear metric snobs 1F=-17.222C 1Gal=3.785L Stop being lazy and expecting others to do everything for you!

@elidanceali

3 жыл бұрын

Fahrenheit to Celsius is not a linear conversion so knowing what 1F is ostensibly useless.

@Mafanwe

3 жыл бұрын

@@elidanceali agreed!