I brewed up what was intended to be a black beer that tasted closer to an amber, which ended up more like a porter after it finally all melded together. But just prior to that, for about a week, it had a nice dark chocolate taste, which gave me the desire to create a brown that had a nice strong dark chocolate flavor.
I'm uncertain as to how much chocolate (I'll be buying my grains from Austin Homebrew Supply as I live in Lakeway now so I'm not sure if there chocolate will be similar to the Briess I had been buying in San Antonio) I ought to use without getting into a more roasty flavor.
Here's my 6 gal partial mash/partial boil recipe:
5 lbs golden light LME (FO)
3 lbs 2-row
0.75 lb crystal 60
0.75 lb crystal 120
0.5 lb chocolate
0.5 lb soft white wheat berries
6 oz carafoam
1.2 oz Liberty (4.9%) @ 60 mins
1.4 oz Liberty @ 20/5 mins
US-05
1.055/1.011
5.7% ABV
32 IBU's
23 SRM
I'm uncertain as to how much chocolate (I'll be buying my grains from Austin Homebrew Supply as I live in Lakeway now so I'm not sure if there chocolate will be similar to the Briess I had been buying in San Antonio) I ought to use without getting into a more roasty flavor.
Here's my 6 gal partial mash/partial boil recipe:
5 lbs golden light LME (FO)
3 lbs 2-row
0.75 lb crystal 60
0.75 lb crystal 120
0.5 lb chocolate
0.5 lb soft white wheat berries
6 oz carafoam
1.2 oz Liberty (4.9%) @ 60 mins
1.4 oz Liberty @ 20/5 mins
US-05
1.055/1.011
5.7% ABV
32 IBU's
23 SRM