Recipe, what is this?

[k1v1116]

I just brewed the following recipe today:

Batch Size = 5.5 Gallons, sg 1.066 79% efficiency
Grain bill: 12.50lbs
8.0lb English Pale Ale malt
2.0lb White Wheat
1.0lb Crystal 60L
0.5lb Melanoidin
0.5lb Brown Malt
0.5lb Chocolate Malt
Hops
EKG 1.75oz 60m
EKG 0.25oz 10m

Mashed 128f - protein, 154f sacc rest.
White Labs WLP023 Burton Ale

Water adjusted to loosely mimic Burton on Trent water.

I made up this recipe partly because I had a lot of the ingredients on hand already, I realize the SG is a little high and the IBUs a little low but im curious what everyone thinks of this recipe. The closest match I could find in the BJCP guidelines is the Northern English Brown style but its not a perfect match, so what did I make?

Also this is the first time Ive used my new barley crusher and at factory gap settings my efficiency already jumped 9% I look forward to tweaking it.

 

[Kai]

I suppose it's a sort of a robust porter if you tried to make it in burton. What's the SRM?

 

[k1v1116]

ProMash has the SRM at 19.6 its a little hard to tell from the wort but it looks like that should be close. kind of a medium brown I guess. I used the burton yeast because I have some slants of it in my fridge, and its one of my favorite yeasts for almost any style of ale.

 

[Brett0424]

I agree it looks like a porter...malt bill looks like a brown porter recipe but the hard water and high gravity could make it taste more like a robust porter. The hops are sort of in the middle and could be either.

 

[k1v1116]

ok, thanks for the feedback everyone. Im sure whatever it turns out to be it will be good. It doesnt really seem to fit into any category very well.