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With the right ingredients, this recipe will re-create the kinds of flavors you’d find at pubs all over England on any given day—a showcase of English malt and hops, pouring a beautiful brilliant jewel-toned orange.
ESB is distinctly English, with significant malt complexity (though usually of the lower-Lovibond variety), a fairly high IBU-to-gravity ratio, and English flavor/aroma hops and yeast strains. Ready to Make Your Best ESB?
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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 75%
OG: 1.051
FG: 1.012
IBUs: 35
ABV: 5.1%
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