Jay's Brewing

Brown ales are really good beers to drink year round, they are some of my favorites.  This recipe got pretty big because of home brew shops using this recipe for beginners.  It’s a solid brown ale.  The thing that is so great about browns ales as I’ve said many times before is, that most people like them.  They are not too dark, not too light.  In general most people have tasted them as well, so they can compare it to something.  It’s a  middle of the road beer.  Generally you won’t find too many home brewers saying that there favorite beer is a brown ale, but at the same token you won’t find to many home brewers saying that they hate them either.  It’s kinda like a wallflower beer, most people forget that you can even make them.

Brown ale’s are pretty forgivable, meaning they can hide mistakes. So if you are giving a go at all-grain brewing - this style of beer is really good to start with.   This particular brown has a strong malt flavor with a nice hop balance.  Since there are quite a few hop additions to the beer, it has a full hop profile.  From the time that you lift the glass to your nose to the last drop that rolls off your tongue you will have a bit of hoppyness.  Keep in mind these are low alpha acid hops so it’s not going to be anything like an IPA sitting at only 21 IBU’s.  Also with the Malto Dextrin added to the recipe it really gives a bit more mouth-feel.  If you wanted to do this one all-grain you could use 2-row Brewers malt and it would taste just fine.  Conversion Chart.

 

 

Ingredients

1 lb 60L Crystal Malt

4 oz Chocolate Malt

1.5 oz Black Malt

7 lbs Golden Light LME

4 oz Malto Dextrin

1 oz East Kent Goldings (60 minutes)

1/4 oz Liberty Hops (15 minutes)

1/4 oz Willamette (5 minutes)

1/4 oz Liberty (1 minute)

WLP 005 or Saf – 04

 

Spec

OG: 1.056

FG: 1.014

IBU: 21

SRM: 48

ABV: 5.3%

 

 

 

Instructions

• Heat 2.5 gallons of water to 150
• Steep grains for 30 minutes
• Take grains out
• Add malt extract and malto dextrin
• Bring to boil
• Add 1 oz EKG hops
• Boil for 45 minutes
• Add 1/4 oz Liberty
• boil for 10 minutes
• Add 1/4 oz Willamette
• Boil for 4 minutes
• Add 1/4 oz Liberty hops
• Boil for 1 minute
• End boil
• Cool down, put in fermenter, fill up 5 gallons pitch yeast
• Ferment for 2 weeks
• Bottle with 3.4 cup of corn sugar
• Let it sit in bottles for 3 weeks

 

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