Sam Calagione A-Z Brown Ale...have you tried it?

[Turfmanbrad]

Has anyone brewed this from the Extreme Brewing book? I'm looking to make a Maple Brown Ale, and I was wondering how much maple you get from this, and if It would work to replace the molasses with more maple syrup. Any ideas will help. Thanks

 

[bferullo]

that was one of the first brew books I bought. If you like the maple flavor why not? I would search the forums for "maple syrup" and see how people incorporate it into their recipes.

I will take a look at the recipe when get home and what the fermentables look like.

 

[scottland]

Personally I thought that beer had waaayyyyy too many adjuncts to be good. White sugar, brown sugar, candi sugar, molasses, maple syrup, good lord.

Just skip that page and move onto the next recipe, you'll be thankful you did.

 

[Turfmanbrad]

I'm combining that with the recipe on hbt called Martian matter maple brown ale. I took out sam's brown sugar and molasses and I'm using 30oz maple syrup and the Belgian candi sugar. I'm doing sam's hops with mostly the hbt grains. Thoughts?

 

[rockfish42]

I've had trouble getting maple syrup to contribute much flavor/aroma considering how much it costs. Fenugreek might be a better idea as it gives a maple aroma and doesn't cost nearly as much.

 

[Native302]

I brewed it- got a kit from the lhbs and now have 1 1/2 case that I despise

 

[redstickbrew]

I followed the recipe with no modifications. This beer came out amazing. It's not lacking in complexities of flavor from the different sugars and has a great malty front end with the subtle maple finish. I'll have another batch of this brewing soon.

 

[lbernard3]

I am wondering if anyone else has plugged Calagione's recipes into BrewersFriend or BeerSmith and got really different numbers than the author is putting out there?

Lou