Worthington's White Shield IPA was the best beer I tasted in my recent session - see separate thread called palate calibration. If you've ever wondered what one of the best English IPA's ever made tastes like, then get yourself a bottle and imagine what it would be like to make a beer as good as this! You'll never look at another IPA the same way again!!
So, my task now is to find a close recipe and make some! I found the following article on a US forum which has the following recipe.
The following recipe was taken from Dave Line's book "Brewing beers like those you buy"
Batch size 5 gallons US
OG 1.052
FG 1.012
Ingredients
6 1/2 lb 2 row pale malt
6 oz medium crystal malt
1 lb invert cane sugar
1 tsp Irish moss
1/2 oz Davis gelatin
2 oz Fuggles (90 minutes)
1 oz Golding (90 minutes)
1/2 oz Goldings (15 minutes)
1/4 oz Goldings (dry hop)
Worthington White Shield yeast starter
1/2 tsp per pint priming sugar
1. Heat 3.75 gals water for pale ale brewing to 140 degrees and stir in the crushed malts. Stirring continuously, raise the temperature to 151 degrees. Mash for 1 1/2 hours at 151 degrees.
2. Using slightly hotter water than the mash, sparge to collect 5 gallons of wort.
3. Add two oz Fuggles, and 1 oz Goldings. Boil for 90 minutes. While boiling, dissolve the invert sugar in a little hot water, and add to the boil. Add Irish moss as per directions
4. Switch off heat, add 1/2 oz Goldings. Steep for 15 minutes. Strain clear wort into fermenter and make up to 5 gals with cold water.
5. When cool, pitch with yeast and ferment for 4 - 5 days until gravity falls to 1.012. Rack to secondary fermenter, and add 1/4 oz Goldings and Gelatin finings.
6. Leave for 5 days, prime and bottle. Leave for 21 days to condition.
My changes.
Couln't get invert sugar. I added an extra 1/2 lb 2 row, and 1/2 lb flaked barley instead.
Used 2 1/2 gallons mash water, and sparged to 6 gallons.
Didn't have Fuggles, so I substituted 2 1/2 oz Goldings for the 2 oz Fuggles (Boiling and steeping hops were 5.0% aa plugs)
Used anonymous dry yeast as I couldn't get the White Shield.
OG 1.055
7 days in primary
Upped the dry hops to 1/2 oz pellets, 21 days in secondary.
FG 1.014
Substituted 3/4 cup corn sugar for the cane sugar suggested for priming.
I think some water conditioning with Gypsum is also in order - If anybody has a recipe for Worthington's White Shield, I'd be grateful to exchange notes. I see it's also bottle conditioned, so I plan on building a starter off a few bottles and see how it goes.
Cheers,
TL
