Help with brown ale recipe

[drinkindinkins]

Hello brew people

I for a little insight on helping create an India brown ale. I was really impressed with dogfish head's version. Does anybody know what yeast they use?

Here is my possible ingredients thus far:

Grains:
Maris otter or pale malt
Bairds carastan
Flakes oats (lightly toasted)
Pale chocolate malt


I would like to have some aromatic barley, any suggestions?

Hops:
Haven't really fully thought of yet but cascade centennial citra, etc


Miscellaneous:
Organic brown sugar
Maple syrup
White pepper


Again I am doing an American style so med body, deep copper to brown, med roasted malt and caramel, med to high bitterness. Thanks ahead of time on any insight.

 

[giraffe]

Id just use a clean neutral yeast of your choice. Ive heard dogfish head uses something like ringwood yeast. But, I dont taste it.

Generically for a brown you want

5-15% toasted or character malts (victory/biscuit/amber/brown/munich/aromatic/etc)
2-5% chocolate malts
5-10% crystal malts, averaging around 60L.
Rest base malt. I like using marris otter. You can use two row, and go towards the higher end of the specialty malts.

Put the sugars and spices away.