British Brown Ale Nut Brown AG

[msa8967]

I don't have any Victory malt on hand and there is no LHBS within 60 miles. Can I use bisquit malt as a good substitute for Victory?

 

[dummkauf]

Brewing this for the 2nd time today! I bumped the grain bill up a bit to accomodate my effeciency since the 1st time I brewed this was also my 1st AG brew and I undershot my OG, but it was still very tasty! Just realized I should have left the chocolate malt alone, so I think this batch will be a wee bit darker than the last time around, but we'll see.

I also just racked EdWort's Haus Pale ale to secondary while this Nut Brown has been mashing, and just realized that I have a great big yeast cake O' Notty on the bottom of my primary. So I think I am going to try pitching this brew onto a yeast cake for the first time just to see what happens

 

[Lil' Sparky]

I don't have any Victory malt on hand and there is no LHBS within 60 miles. Can I use bisquit malt as a good substitute for Victory?

Biscuit is pretty close. It's probably your best bet.

 

[Lil' Sparky]

Brewing this for the 2nd time today! I bumped the grain bill up a bit to accomodate my effeciency since the 1st time I brewed this was also my 1st AG brew and I undershot my OG, but it was still very tasty! Just realized I should have left the chocolate malt alone, so I think this batch will be a wee bit darker than the last time around, but we'll see.

I also just racked EdWort's Haus Pale ale to secondary while this Nut Brown has been mashing, and just realized that I have a great big yeast cake O' Notty on the bottom of my primary. So I think I am going to try pitching this brew onto a yeast cake for the first time just to see what happens

Yeah, anytime you're adjusting for efficiency, just try to bump the base malt. Changing the specialty grains will affect the overall flavor of the beer.

Pitching on that yeast cake should be perfect.

 

[dummkauf]

Yeah, anytime you're adjusting for efficiency, just try to bump the base malt. Changing the specialty grains will affect the overall flavor of the beer.

Pitching on that yeast cake should be perfect.

Yep, lesson learned, but now I get to find out what the extra specialty grains do to the final product which will be lesson #2

 

[dummkauf]

wow!!! Pitching on that old yeast cake was nuts. My blow off tube was bubbling 4 hours after racking onto it, and this is the first time I've ever seen my blowoff bucket bubble over!

 

[burnunit]

This recipe is spot freaking on. I'm bottling today, and the flavor and smell coming out of the fermenter and hydrometer cylinder is ...practically perfect in every way. It is extremely hard to screw up this recipe, guys and gals. All that's left is conditioning; and if my sanitation is good and my krausening calculations are right it's going to be pretty much one of the best things I've ever brewed.

Hear that: the only thing standing in the way of greatness are my sanitation and bottling procedures, because the recipe itself is tremendous.

 

[mikeysab]

I definitely found my next recipe. Gonna go order the ingredients now. Might even pitch 5 gallons of this onto an 04 yeast cake. Other half will go with Notty. Thanks for the recipe, sparky.

 

[waazupdoc]

Well I tried to get all the ingredients to do the same recipe and when I got to my local supply store they were out of a few things. So for my 10 gallon batch that I just did... I used the following.

19.00 lb Pale Malt 2row UK
2.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
2.00 lb Oats, Flaked
1.00 lb Biscuit Malt
0.50 lb Chocolate Malt
1.50 oz Sterling
2.00 oz Willamette

I mashed in at 152 degrees and kept for 1hr then stepped it up to 172 degrees for 20min then boiled for 1hr. Added 1oz of Sterling and 1oz of Willamette for 1hr. then the last 10min i added the rest.


I came up with about 7.5gal and put in about 2.5 gal of distilled water. I then checked my OG and hit 1.067 and pitched plenty of yeast.. I had the thing going nutz in about 4 hrs and the room smelled amazing.. This thing is going to be good..... Anyone have any suggestions on what I could have done?

 

[waazupdoc]

So checked my levels and found:

OG: 1.067
FG: 1.017

6.6ABV Yeah

And boy it does taste good

 

[dummkauf]

Just racked this one to secondary tonight after 27 days in primary and decided to throw them on some medium toast french oak cubes that i had vacuum packed and soaked in port for a while. The cubes had been used in 1 brew before so they probably won't leave too much oak flavor, but I'm thinking this brew could benefit from a little oak flavor, so we'll see how it turns out

 

[DavidSteel]

Brewing 11-12 gallons of this right now. Hit my temps @ 154 and 168. 20 minutes left in the boil right now. I can't wait to try it out. Used Willamette for both hop additions because I'm cheap like that. Hope it compliments the beer well.

Edit: do you think I should aim to get this around the same OG or should I just leave it at whatever I get? (I usually get 87% efficiency).

Got it to about 12 gallons @ 1.055ish. Best sample I have ever tasted. Mmm mmm mmm...

 

[FooFan]

I just had a 22oz bottle.

I made 6 gallons. Put 5 in a keg and bottled a gallon.

Great brew Sparky... that has to be the smoothest brew that I have ever made.:rockin:

Cheers

 

[earwig]

I just ordered everything for this; brewing this weekend, can't wait!

 

[SatelliteGuy]

I just brewed a batch of this last night.

I did a partial mash directly derived from the original recipe:

5 lbs DME (late add. at 15 minutes)
2 lbs 2-row
1 lb crystal - 60L
1 lb flaked oats
1/2 lb victory
1/4 lb chocolate malt

1 oz fuggles @ 60
1 oz goldings @ 15

even though I topped my bucket up to 23 liters, I still had an OG of about 1.058
I pitched Notty onto it.

I can't wait to try it!

 

[DavidSteel]

Just wanted to say I bottled this on 1/16. My OG was 1.055 and my FG was either 1.012 or 1.011. Should be fairly spot on to the original posted recipe. I hit all my temp's and I'm pretty happy about that.

 

[PVH]

Saw this get bumped up and remembered that I have never posted about brewing it. I've done 3 10gal batches and I can say that this is a solid recipe. It's pretty much a house beer at this point for us.

 

[Chemiker]

I was looking for a solid nut brown recipe and I guess I found it! Just getting my Whitbread starter going now, brewing on Saturday. I'm excited to try this one out :rockin:

 

[DubbelDach]

Lil' Sparky's Lil' Nut.... Brown! Love this recipe, 3rd time making it... This time, just a 1-gallon batch though:

 

[SatelliteGuy]

just an update, I checked my SG this morning, and it's already at 1.020, which means ABV of 5.18%.
I know, it's not done yet, it's only been 6 days, and I'm hoping to leave it til February 8th, which would give it 23 days in primary.
Good Lord, but I can't wait!

 

[msa8967]

just an update, I checked my SG this morning, and it's already at 1.020, which means ABV of 5.18%.
I know, it's not done yet, it's only been 6 days, and I'm hoping to leave it til February 8th, which would give it 23 days in primary.
Good Lord, but I can't wait!

I brewed a Nut Brown ale six days ago also. I am curious what type of yeast did you use? My SG has not yet gone below 1.030.

 

[SatelliteGuy]

I brewed a Nut Brown ale six days ago also. I am curious what type of yeast did you use? My SG has not yet gone below 1.030.

I used Notty in my Nutty

 

[Kayos]

Lil' Sparky's Lil' Nut.... Brown! Love this recipe, 3rd time making it... This time, just a 1-gallon batch though:

Awwww.....like a little brother to my 10g batch of this stuff.

 

[sidewinder02132]

I just did the mash of this recipe this weekend and the yeast are working away as I write this; however, because of the crazy cold up here, I've wrapped the bucket in multiple layers of wool blankets to keep them toasty enough to maintain brewing temperature. Crazy! On the flip side, when their done, they'll CRASH hard in the cooler environment. Can't wait for this to be done - in fact, this is my first brew of the year! NICE. BTW - lookin' like a great recipe.

 

[DavidSteel]

Gotta say, been in the bottle only about 2 weeks, but this isn't impressing me at all. My batch is IDENTICAL to the OP. I'll give this a few more weeks and try again. Hopeful that it gets better.

Also, nothing wrong with the beer, ingredients used fermentation temps, etc. so don't even comment on that.

 

[earwig]

Gotta say, been in the bottle only about 2 weeks, but this isn't impressing me at all. My batch is IDENTICAL to the OP. I'll give this a few more weeks and try again. Hopeful that it gets better.

Also, nothing wrong with the beer, ingredients used fermentation temps, etc. so don't even comment on that.

I brewed this a couple weeks ago. May I ask why you don't like it? What are you tasting? I'm just curious. Thanks.

 

[chapa]

Also, nothing wrong with the beer, ingredients used fermentation temps, etc. so don't even comment on that.

I brewed this a couple weeks ago. May I ask why you don't like it? What are you tasting? I'm just curious. Thanks.

You sure it wasn't your fermentation temps?..haha Seriously though, I'd be interested to hear what you think, after its been in the bottle a little longer.

I haven't tried it yet, but sounds like its been well received.

 

[Kayos]

Gotta say, been in the bottle only about 2 weeks, but this isn't impressing me at all. My batch is IDENTICAL to the OP. I'll give this a few more weeks and try again. Hopeful that it gets better.

Also, nothing wrong with the beer, ingredients used fermentation temps, etc. so don't even comment on that.

Can you be specific at all as to why you aren't impressed?

 

[dummkauf]

Gotta say, been in the bottle only about 2 weeks, but this isn't impressing me at all. My batch is IDENTICAL to the OP. I'll give this a few more weeks and try again. Hopeful that it gets better.

Also, nothing wrong with the beer, ingredients used fermentation temps, etc. so don't even comment on that.

1st, the obvious: I'm assuming you like Nut Brown's or you never would have brewed it to begin with, or is this your first and you just don't like it?

2nd, not everyone has the same tastes, period, end of discussion. Just because everyone else liked it doesn't mean you will. I personally can't stand Bell's Oberon, but I am pretty sure that makes me a minority on this site(I do like most of Bell's other brews though), but other people seem to love it, which doesn't matter.

So you didn't like this brew, don't brew it again. Others love it, myself included, my suggestion would be to give it some age, if you still don't like it, make some friends happy and give it away as someone else might enjoy it quite a bit(especially since you are impervious from brewing mistakes).

 

[KNOTSANE]

Going to give this one a go today. Rarely do I read through 33 pages of posts' where 99.% are positive results. This one will be known as "Hanging Brains Nut Brown Ale". And to you Mr. Sparky It's guys like you that got me into homebrewing some years ago. I don't post a bunch on here, but I do read allot. (my old man always told me coming up that we have 2 ears and 1 mouth.......so listen twice as much as you talk and you will learn something). I will surely be posting my results of the Hanging Brains.