British Golden Years Ale

After making the British Golden Years Ale 3.25 Gallon I decided that I needed to take away some of the dry after taste and reduce the bitterness.

I increased the Cl to reduce the extra dry after taste, promoting slightly more malt flavor.

I reduced the 60, 20, 10 min hop additions to reduce bitterness.

The OG is purposely targeted to 1.049 to meet the pitch rate recommended by Lallemand of 11 gr to 5 Gal.

https://www.lallemandbrewing.com/en/united-states/brewers-corner/brewing-tools/pitching-rate-calculator/

Mash Thickness:
Thin mashing is not for everyone. If you are already achieving 80% or better efficiency into your fermenter with a thicker mash, you will likely see no increase by utilizing a thin mash. In this case your conversion efficiency is already nearly 100%. Essentially, all that you are creating by thin mashing is a scenario by which you are reducing your sparge volume, thus reducing your lauter efficiency while seeing no increase in your conversion efficiency. You will have a net loss.

If you are currently achieving 80% efficiency or less, you may want to experiment with a thin mash. You could easily increase your efficiency 5-15% by simply mashing thin! You will also see a benefit from increasing the quality of your wort by reducing the amount of sparging. Excessive sparging increases pH and extracts tannins from the grain husks, both undesirable.

Try it! Deviate from the typical 1.25qt/lb mash and try 1.5qt/lb or even 2.0qt/lb! This author has realized an increase from 70% to 85% efficiency by implementing this method alone.

https://www.brewersfriend.com/2009/03/22/mashing-thick-or-thin/