I always wanted to brew an ESB, anyone can share a solid recipe has been tried and works ?
Do you want to brew a English Strong Bitters or do you want to brew a US type ESB, do you have a beer you would like to emulate?
Are you looking to brew this for your own enjoyment or to enter into a contest?
If it is for your own enjoyment the recipes from thehaze and northerbrewer will make good enjoyable beers. If you plan to enter the beer into a contest then you might need to make some adjustment to appease the judges.
For the last year I have been brewing best bitters roughly following the recipe of thehaze ...
Do you have a handy link to that ?
And another thing I like in Bitters is a lower FG. I saw a recipe above with a theoretical FG of 1.015. That seems like a lot, although if made well, it could taste well-attenuated. Anything from 1.008 to 1.010 is fine for my taste, so this is another thing you can think about, and of course experiment with. See where your own taste takes you. Cheers.
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