chalkys bite attempt sort of

I tried that chalkys bite beer from cornwall and quite liked it , i read that it contained cornish fennel so I created this brew to explore the fennel/ spice avenue.
the recipe was ;

0.45 kg Lyle's Golden Syrup (0.0 SRM) Extract 11.4 %
3.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 88.6 %
40.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [6.20%] (90 min) Hops 30.0 IBU
50.00 gm Saaz [1.20%] (15 min) Hops 3.0 IBU
100.00 gm Saaz [1.20%] (5 min) Hops 2.4 IBU
1 oz crushed fennel seeds added at the end of the boil

yes I know the amount of hops is huge and the AA's low but thats cos theyve been on top of my wardrobe for almost a year so I took degradation into account .
its in the fermentor now so we shall see what comes if it all in a few weeks.

In the meantime I provided two cornies of my normal bitter for a friends party and it went down very well , highly recomend it as theres only one thing better than drinking your own beer and thats seeing a whole house full of people pissed on your beer and telling you how damn good it is :-)

Ive also got a new batch of bitter fermenting at the moment and I am going to add some french oak chips to it to see what happens once it goes into a corny . Im using a dryhopping bag with a ping pong ball in it, hopefully that will stop it clogging up the feed pipe.

till then happy brewing :-)