Nut Brown Ale

I have a can of Munton's Nut Brown Ale. I was just wondering what the starting SG should be?? I would like this ale to be around 5% AVB but I don't want the cider taste from adding a bunch of sugar. I'm using Munton's active brewing yeast in the yellow packs. I do have 3 lbs of unhopped light dry malt if I need to add any.
I did do a search before I wrote this post and couldn't come up with anything.

Thanks,
Greg

Use the Muntons with the 3 pounds of DME and you will get an OG of approximately 1.052 for a 5 gallon batch. If it finishes out at 1.012 your alcohol will be about 5.2% ABV. (Don't use any sugar except for bottling)
Should make for a nice beer. Let us know what you decided and how it turned out.

By the way,
Welcome to the forum!

RichBrewer said:

Use the Muntons with the 3 pounds of DME and you will get an OG of approximately 1.052 for a 5 gallon batch. If it finishes out at 1.012 your alcohol will be about 5.2% ABV. (Don't use any sugar except for bottling)
Should make for a nice beer. Let us know what you decided and how it turned out.

By the way,
Welcome to the forum!

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Rich,

Thanks for the welcome and the advice. I found that all I had 2lbs of dry light malt extract and 2lbs of corn sugar. I decided to make it as is, I want to have some homebrew for Thanksgiving and my HB store is only open part time, I'd have to wait till Wednesday before he's open.
I ended up with an SG of 1.040 with 6 gallons so I'm going to end up with an ABV of around 4.0 to 4.3%.

Greg

That's actually not a bad gravity for an easy drinking brown ale, anyways.

Baron von BeeGee said:

That's actually not a bad gravity for an easy drinking brown ale, anyways.

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That is an excellent point. I've somehow gotten myself into the habit of brewing all my beers with an OG of over 1.050.

I did a Canadian Blonde Ale using dry malt and corn sugar and it turned out excellent. It had an ABV of 4.1%. I’ve been making wine for sometime and it has always been my goal to make a good tasting brew not jet fuel. This is my 3rd batch of beer.
I had some HB Nut Brown Ale that had an ABV of 5% and it tasted really good, that is what I was shooting for. I’ll be happy with 4% beer as long as it taste good.

Greg

Browns work best around 4%. If you push the ABV much higher, you almost always end up with a porter or a bitter.

I racked my nut brown ale today, started it on Saturday. The starting SG was 1.040 and it was 1.006 today which will give me 4.6% AVB, not to shabby. I'm going to leave it in the carboy for 9 days because I have reserves this weekend and the weekdays are far to hectic for me to bottle. I tasted the wort and it had a nice nutty flavor with a little bitter aftertaste. I have had this type of beer before with an aftertaste that was very bitter, it wasn't bad but you could only drink a couple. I'm very pleased with how it tasted. I'll let everyone know how it tastes in 6 weeks.

Greg

Echo david_42 - my Midnight Oil recipe pushes the boundaries of the brown ale style in both color and ABV. In fact, a buddy with a pretty "uneducated palate" likened it to Guinness (it's more like a lightly hopped 5% porter). The "almost a porter" effect was what I wanted. The OG is 1.055, which is 5 points over the BJCP style limit of 1.050.

Bottled the Nut Brown Ale today, I got 50 16oz bottles. The ABV was 4.6%. Tasted very good, nice nutty flavor offset with a mild bitter hopp flavor. I'll try it again in a couple of weeks and let you know how it's aging.

Greg