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21 days is nothing for this beer. Keep waiting. Heat it up if you can. You're not going to hurt anything leaving it on the yeast for 6 weeks. I've brewed this 3 times now, and in the end, I've given up on it. Problem (1) If that Rochefort yeast even thinks about getting over about 68F...

Sadly, no. One of these days I'll live somewhere I have space for an extra freezer....

Brown I ------- Brewer: Style: American Brown Ale Batch: 5.50 galAll Grain Characteristics --------------- Recipe Gravity: 1.058 OG Recipe Bitterness: 22 IBU Recipe Color: 19° SRM Estimated FG: 1.015 Alcohol by Volume: 5.7% Alcohol by Weight: 4.4% Ingredients -----------...

Also, 20° seems a little on the light side for what I was imagining. Maybe I should swap some of the crystal for some C-120? Or do something else?

What sort of changes would you expect that to make to the flavor?

Ooh. Wyeast makes that sound perfect.

Okay, maybe I'll give Fuggles a shot, then. I picked Mt. Hood because they're apparently an American version of Hallertauer and I thought had a rather neutral flavor, which given my dislike of hops seemed a good thing:) But, earthy notes do seem to go with brown, and it looks like Fuggles have...

So, maybe drop the CaraMunich to 0.5 lb? Lower attenuation sounds good, but 1332 is supposedly nutty, and 1272 is tart, and I'm not looking for either... Maybe the stated effects are more subtle than I'm imagining?

I'm looking for a sweet, malty beer with just barely enough hops to call it a beer. I've brewed this many times, and plan to keep brewing it: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f67/aberdeen-brown-ale-newcastle-clone-ag-36912/ But I'd like to try something more American, maybe a bit cleaner...

I made a 1.5L starter from an activator pack. It took off pretty quickly, but I suppose it's possible it wasn't enough. I can definitely try a bigger starter next time, seems like I'm certainly unlikely to overpitch.

So, mine's been sitting in bottles for 6 months, now, and I'm still not at all pleased. At this point it's carbonated enough to drink, but not enough to form a real head. It took about 3 months to get to that point. This was actually my first all-grain beer, which was probably a bit of a...