Brown ale recipe

[drays14]

Hey guys I'm getting ready to brew my first brown ale this upcoming week, I put together a recipe but with this being my first attempt I wanted to get your opinions/suggestions. This will be my 16th batch since January, I'm so excited for all the fall and winter brews! My goal is a malty and slightly nutty brown, I'm also debating splitting the batch in half and adding some hazelnut extract in one keg. I know rogue has their clone recipe out there but I also wanted something that is my own. Let me know what you think!

Batch size 5.5 gallons
Boil time 60 minutes
OG 1.064
Efficiency 70%

11lb 2 Row - 79.3%
17oz victory - 7.7%
13oz Crystal 80 - 5.9%
9oz Chocolate malt - 4.1%
7oz special b - 3.2%

Still debating on the hops and yeast. I have a bunch of nugget and williamette but I can pick something else up. How does the grain bill look? Also what hops/yeast would you go with?

Thanks in advance!

 

[JKaranka]

Looks good to me. I'd bring the Victory down a tad. Nugget is a pretty good hop and so is Willamette. If you like them, just go ahead. What yeasts do you have? Nothing wrong with US 05 but you could do with a tad less attenuation. You could make it an all Nugget show.

 

[drays14]

The yeast can be whatever I grab at the lhbs. Is victory going to add a sweetness to balance out the chocolate and special b or should I maybe substitute crystal 120 with the special b?

 

[drays14]

I'll probably go with wyeast 1968

 

[JKaranka]

Would Ringwood be interesting? That or Fullers would both be ok. If you get MJ Newcastle Dark Ale you can do your liver some favours, though :-D