Honey Brown

[AgentHubcap]

This will be my first "from scratch" recipe. What do you guys think? Anything glaring need to be changed?

http://hopville.com/recipe/1564529/american-brown-ale-recipes/honey-brown

This is for a 10gal batch, btw.

% LB OZ Malt or Fermentable ppg °L
80% 20 0 American Two-row Pale 37 1 ~
8% 2 0 Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L 33 120 ~
8% 2 0 Honey Malt 37 25 ~
4% 1 0 Chocolate Malt (US) 28 350 ~

boil 60 mins 3.0 East Kent Goldings leaf 5.0
boil 30 mins 1.0 East Kent Goldings leaf 5.0

Using S-04 yeast

 

[nukebrewer]

Sounds pretty tasty, yet nice and simple. I know this is nitpicky, but you're calling it an American Brown Ale, but you're using an English yeast. I would use US-05 to stylistically accurate. But if that's not what you're going for, more power to you to do whatever you want. Good job for a first from scratch recipe.

 

[AgentHubcap]

Thanks for the feedback! I actually couldn't find the style that I was looking for (not sure what style it should fall under). I'm also not the best at sticking to the styles anyway

I'll be brewing with a partner on this one, and his half will have a Belgian saison yeast instead. He's weird like that...

 

[nukebrewer]

I've never used saison yeast, so I don't know how that is going to work out. I don't generally stick to style either, but a lot of people are super anal about sticking to style, so that's what I default to when critiquing a recipe. Good luck with your brew day.

 

[dawgmatic]

You pretty much got a recipe for a british porter. Your gravity is a bit higher than you would want for comp, but I figured that you knew full well what you were doing.

If you wanted to make it more like a porter Ray daniels mentions that you would want to aim for a IBU:GU ratio of 0.7 to 0.9. You have the grain proportions right, but with a gravity that high your desired ibus would be from 49 to 63 which is way out of style anyway so....

I would either increase the IBUs or lower the gravity. But I would lean towards the gravity cause thats the cheapest thing to do. I guess if you get good attenuation then the hops won't be much of a problem, I would just be worried that it might end up too sweet. I also think you should get rid of the 30 min addition an split that between 15 an flameout.

 

[dawgmatic]

Oh, an I would reduce the honey an c120 as well. Those are the malts that are going to contribute most of the residual sweetness

 

[nukebrewer]

Oh, an I would reduce the honey an c120 as well. Those are the malts that are going to contribute most of the residual sweetness

I disagree. For a 10 gal batch, 2 lbs each of crystal and honey malt is not too much, IMHO.