Gang, I've been toying around with a brown ale recipe. I plan on pitching it on top of the Safale Us-56 cake from my amber ale which is about to go into secondary.
My goal is a brown, that is richer and darker than my amber, yet not as full bodied as my porters or stouts.. Somewhere right in the middle...Yet really complex...
I'm pretty set on my hops (because I have them in abundance.)
Except for the nugget
But I've been tinkering around with beercalculus and some other things, and I've come up with two recipes....and they both sound good...I think.
My starting recipe is this...
Version 1
6# Light DME
14 ounces Victory Malt
14 ounces Crystal 60L
14 ounces briess Special Roast
4 ounces Chocolate Malt
1 ounce Cascade @ 60
1/4 ounce Nugget @ 60
1/4 ounces Fuggles @ 20
1/2 ounce Fuggles at 5 min
(Pitched onto Safale Us-56 yeastcake from previous batch of Amber Ale)
Est. OG 1.070 (1.062-1.073)
Est. Fg 1.019 (1.016-1.020)
Est. IBU 31.7 (Corrected hop extraction for boil gravity)
Here's the alternate one....(I did this one because beercalculus didn't list either Victory or Special Roast...after I did it, I emailed the guy who designed beercalculus and he added those malts to his program so I was able to recalculate the first one...but I still like the flavor profile of the biscuit and special b...
Version 2
6# Light DME
14 ounces Biscuit
14 ounces Crystal 60L
14 ounces Special B
4 ounces Chocolate Malt (I also have it written out using only 2 ounces of this malt)
1 ounce Cascade @ 60
1/4 ounce Nugget @ 60
1/4 ounces Fuggles @ 20
1/2 ounce Fuggles at 5 min
(Pitched onto Safale Us-56 yeastcake from previous batch of Amber Ale)
Est. OG 1.066 (1.058 to 1.068)
Est. Fg 1.018 (1.015 to 1.019)
Est. IBU 28.7 (Corrected hop extraction for boil gravity)
They're both similiar, they both have hints of biscuit and nuttiness. The special B one evidently will have a hint of raisin, which sounds nice and complex (version 2)...The special roast one seems like it would be a little drier(version 1)
And I'm sure the safale cake is going to add a complexity to it all it's own with the flavors leftover from the Amber Ale...(Which I'll probably never be able to duplicate no matter which recipe I choose.)
At some point I'll probably end up brewing both...but for this weekend I have to choose one of them.
So which is going to have the most complexity in terms of flavors/bodies etc?
I know it's mostly a matter of preference, but I'd like to hear what you think...
Thanks Everybody!
My goal is a brown, that is richer and darker than my amber, yet not as full bodied as my porters or stouts.. Somewhere right in the middle...Yet really complex...
I'm pretty set on my hops (because I have them in abundance.)
Except for the nugget
But I've been tinkering around with beercalculus and some other things, and I've come up with two recipes....and they both sound good...I think.
My starting recipe is this...
Version 1
6# Light DME
14 ounces Victory Malt
14 ounces Crystal 60L
14 ounces briess Special Roast
4 ounces Chocolate Malt
1 ounce Cascade @ 60
1/4 ounce Nugget @ 60
1/4 ounces Fuggles @ 20
1/2 ounce Fuggles at 5 min
(Pitched onto Safale Us-56 yeastcake from previous batch of Amber Ale)
Est. OG 1.070 (1.062-1.073)
Est. Fg 1.019 (1.016-1.020)
Est. IBU 31.7 (Corrected hop extraction for boil gravity)
Here's the alternate one....(I did this one because beercalculus didn't list either Victory or Special Roast...after I did it, I emailed the guy who designed beercalculus and he added those malts to his program so I was able to recalculate the first one...but I still like the flavor profile of the biscuit and special b...
Version 2
6# Light DME
14 ounces Biscuit
14 ounces Crystal 60L
14 ounces Special B
4 ounces Chocolate Malt (I also have it written out using only 2 ounces of this malt)
1 ounce Cascade @ 60
1/4 ounce Nugget @ 60
1/4 ounces Fuggles @ 20
1/2 ounce Fuggles at 5 min
(Pitched onto Safale Us-56 yeastcake from previous batch of Amber Ale)
Est. OG 1.066 (1.058 to 1.068)
Est. Fg 1.018 (1.015 to 1.019)
Est. IBU 28.7 (Corrected hop extraction for boil gravity)
They're both similiar, they both have hints of biscuit and nuttiness. The special B one evidently will have a hint of raisin, which sounds nice and complex (version 2)...The special roast one seems like it would be a little drier(version 1)
And I'm sure the safale cake is going to add a complexity to it all it's own with the flavors leftover from the Amber Ale...(Which I'll probably never be able to duplicate no matter which recipe I choose.)
At some point I'll probably end up brewing both...but for this weekend I have to choose one of them.
So which is going to have the most complexity in terms of flavors/bodies etc?
I know it's mostly a matter of preference, but I'd like to hear what you think...
Thanks Everybody!