Continuing the trend of brewing every other weekend (the head brewer was out of town last weekend) this time it’s another low-gravity session bitter, and that’s no April Fool’s joke. Bluebird Bitter from Coniston is the basis for the recipe. Pale, crystal, wheat, and a touch of roasted barley make up the grist. Everything went smoothly, even got a good chill despite the ground water already warming up. The gravity was spot on at 1.038. This will go directly into a firkin out of the primary.

The Dark Ruby Mild got racked to secondary, although the Dry English had already fermented out to 1.010 so could have been casked right away, but there’s no space currently on the handpumps, so it will wait. The London has reverted to not attenuating fully, only reaching 1.020 after two weeks. Might be time to dump that strain after we see its performance on the Bluebird.