What did I just make?

I was cleaning out my closet while I was brewing and decided to use some of the extras I had left over. Now I can't decide what type/style I just brewed.
5# Pale LME
1# Crystal 40
1# Crystal 120
8oz Chocolate Malt
1# honey
1 oz Amarillo 60 min
1oz Amarillo 5 min
Wyeast 1056

SG 1.054

Its definitely dark, almost as dark as the chocolate porter I made last Dec.
At least I know it will be beer!

side note: kids knocked hydrometer off counter and is now cracked, unfortunately LHBS was closed, don't know how accurate gravity reading is.

American Stout?

Something very very sweet (that is a ton of crystal and honey!).

hmm sounds interesting, i think you've got an american style stout on your hands. not a bad way to use up some left overs before they go bad.

chocolate honey porter.

Call it a "Buried in the Closet Stout"

DanVader said:

chocolate honey porter.

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Sounds about right. The late amarillo addition is going to be weird in this beer, and on top of it, the 2 pounds of crystal malt are going to make it very sweet.

Well, I guess the general concensous is chocolate honey porter. Just bottled tonight. Picked up new hydrometer and FG is 1.010. A little lower than I was expecting but still good. Tatsed the sample and not as sweet as I was expecting considering all the crystal and had a nice hop aroma. We'll see how it conditions, I am planning on letting it set about 4 weeks before I tear into it. Will update again after that. Thanks for the input.

tspilker said:

Call it a "Buried in the Closet Stout"

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+1 Love that name...

On second thought...

I guess to the unknowing "closet" could be misinterpreted

You were a pound of Victory from making 5 gallons of Baby Ruth!

OK, tried a bottle. It has carbonated nicely with about a 2" head. Nice dark brown color and creamy light brown head. Tastes similar to the pale ale I made last summer with a hint of dark roasted flavor, probably from the chocolate malt. Not as heavy a flavor as a porter or stout and a hint sweeter than the brown I make. Has a nice hop nose and fairly full hop flavor, those amarillos sure stepped out nicely. All in all, not a bad way to use up some leftovers.

A guy in my hb club always says it's foolish to determine the style of a beer before it's actually tasted. Sounds like this would be good advice in this case. To me, I would call it an American Honey Brown but that's just me. Whatever you call it, it's beer.