What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

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What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by Jimmy » Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:38 am

I want to make a brown ale this weekend but don't know what to make. I was thinking maybe a clone of Sierra Nevada tumbler, though I've never tried it.

Anyone have a favorite brown ale recipe?

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by mr x » Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:40 am

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I'll be brewing this one again. Pretty happy with it.
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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by LiverDance » Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:45 am

I brewed the one that nash posted in this thread and really enjoyed it.

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"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by GillettBreweryCnslt » Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:38 pm

This is one I made up (well, pieced together from various places). It's more of a nut brown, but it's one of my favourites and always a crowd pleaser.

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 18.93 L
Boil Size: 24.28 L
Estimated OG: 1.052 SG
Estimated Color: 27.7 SRM
Estimated IBU: 31.2 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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7.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) 71.43 %
0.75 lb Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) 7.14 %
0.75 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) 7.14 %
0.75 lb Carstan (35.0 SRM) 7.14 %
0.75 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) 7.14 %
2.00 oz Fuggles [4.30 %] (60 min) 31.2 IBU
1 Pkgs Irish Ale (Wyeast Labs #1084)

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by mr x » Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:43 pm

Brown malt FTW! :thumbup:
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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by chalmers » Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:03 pm

Jimmy wrote:I want to make a brown ale this weekend but don't know what to make. I was thinking maybe a clone of Sierra Nevada tumbler, though I've never tried it.

Anyone have a favorite brown ale recipe?
Tumbler is awesome. If the clone is anything like the original, it's a winner.

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by Jimmy » Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:31 pm

chalmers wrote:
Jimmy wrote:I want to make a brown ale this weekend but don't know what to make. I was thinking maybe a clone of Sierra Nevada tumbler, though I've never tried it.

Anyone have a favorite brown ale recipe?
Tumbler is awesome. If the clone is anything like the original, it's a winner.
The only issue I have with making the tumbler is that it calls mostly for challenger hops..which Noble Grape doesn't list as a stocked item. Anyone know of a reasonable substitute? From what I've read online, there isn't really one.

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by LiverDance » Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:45 pm

says it's a varient of Northern brewer in Beersmith, sounds like centenial as well. If it calls for them everywhere I'd use NB for bittering and Centenial from 30mins down.
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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by Jimmy » Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:36 pm

So this is what I decided on, however when I went to NG, I didn't know what type of smoked malt to get. The guy there said it would be peated malt, but from what I can find, that doesn't seem right... It seems like it should have been rauch malt instead. Anyone have experience with either of those smoked malts?

Estimated OG: 1.057 SG
Estimated Color: 25.0 SRM
Estimated IBU: 35.2 IBUs

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
9.00 lb Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 80.0 %
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 2 8.9 %
0.75 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 3 6.7 %
0.50 lb Smoked Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.4 %
1.00 oz Perle [8.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 26.7 IBUs
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 10.0 Hop 6 6.1 IBUs
0.25 oz Perle [8.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 7 2.4 IBUs

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by mr x » Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:51 pm

Peat malt... :eeew:
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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by Jimmy » Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:22 pm

mr x wrote:Peat malt... :eeew:

That's what I figured. I tossed the grains I picked up and went back for a different recipe. I didn't feel like fucking with the smoked malt at all.

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by Jimmy » Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:51 pm

It's a variant of X's brown ale...I call it... Little Chinese Nuts Brown Ale


Estimated OG: 1.053 SG
Estimated Color: 19.2 SRM
Estimated IBU: 36.2 IBUs


Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
8.25 lb Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 78.2 %
1.00 lb Brown Malt (65.0 SRM) Grain 2 9.5 %
0.40 lb Amber Malt (22.0 SRM) Grain 3 3.8 %
0.40 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 4 3.8 %
0.30 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 5 2.8 %
0.20 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (30.0 SRM) Grain 6 1.9 %
1.00 oz Perle [8.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7 27.5 IBUs
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 10.0 Hop 8 6.2 IBUs
0.25 oz Perle [8.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 9 2.5 IBUs
0.25 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 10 1.7 IBUs

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by derek » Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:21 pm

mr x wrote:Peat malt... :eeew:
Excuse me?? Can you say "Laphroiag"? (Probably not, but who can...)
Currently on tap: Nothing!
In keg: Still nothing.
In Primary: Doggone American Rye Pale Ale

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by Jimmy » Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:04 pm

Tried a hydro sample of this today, pretty happy with how it turned out...minus the cloudiness. Hoping it settles out in the fridge.

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by Jimmy » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:26 pm

This turned out pretty decent. I took a bottle down to Nash over the weekend...he wen't pretty easy on me, so I guess that could be good OR bad! :shifty:

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by NASH » Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:25 pm

Jimmy wrote:This turned out pretty decent. I took a bottle down to Nash over the weekend...he wen't pretty easy on me, so I guess that could be good OR bad! :shifty:
:lol: :lol:

It's good beer! Not exactly what I look for in a Brown Ale but that's my personal preference, all in all a very solid brew. :cheers2:

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Re: What's your favorite brown ale recipe?

Post by derek » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:33 am

NASH wrote:
Jimmy wrote:This turned out pretty decent. I took a bottle down to Nash over the weekend...he wen't pretty easy on me, so I guess that could be good OR bad! :shifty:
:lol: :lol:

It's good beer! Not exactly what I look for in a Brown Ale but that's my personal preference, all in all a very solid brew. :cheers2:
...but needs more hops :pow:
Currently on tap: Nothing!
In keg: Still nothing.
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