American Brown Ale Thang.....

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American Brown Ale Thang.....

Post by Monkeybrew » Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:06 pm

Well, it's been a while since I've brewed any kind of kit or kit adaptation, and as I haven't managed to find time for an AG brew, I thought that I should use up 1 can that I had left from a Woodfordes Sundew kit, as it makes a good base for most kit adaptations.

I have always fancied having a go at an American Brown Ale brew, so did some basic research on the style and came up with this -

American Brown Ale - 13.5L

1.052 OG

1.5kg can of Woodfordes Sundew
500g of Dark DME

200g of Crystal Malt - 120 EBC
100g of Special B - 300 EBC
75g of Amber Malt - 100 EBC
50g of Pale Chocolate Malt - 525 EBC
(all steeped for 60mins from 80C in 3L of treated tap water)

50g of El Dorado Hop Pellets - Steeped for 30mins
50g of El Dorado Hop Pellets - Dry Hop (day 10)

1 x Campden Tablet (crushed)

Colour - Reddish Brown

Rehydrated Mangrove Jacks M44 West Coast Yeast @ 19C

I'm not too sure what kind of FG to expect, but I'm hoping that the more complex sugars from the grains will cause the M44 to attenuate a bit less, and leave a decent amount of residual sweetness. The bitterness for this style is also very low for an American beer and only ranges from 20-30 IBUs for an OG range of 1.045-1.060.

I have roughly gestimated that my brew will have approximately 22 IBUs, based on the Sundew kit being about 28 IBUs as standard.

I will upload some brew evening images when I can work out what is going on with my Photo Bucket account. **Edit** - seems like Photo Bucket want $399.99 to host my pics now, I don't think so...........

Cheers for now

MB
FV:


Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: American Brown Ale Thang.....

Post by Clibit » Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:39 pm

American Brown Ale is a style I really like, hope this turns out well for you. I'm sure it will. A good style for kit modding I think, the grains and the hops will transform it in to a quality brew I reckon.

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Re: American Brown Ale Thang.....

Post by Monkeybrew » Sun Aug 27, 2017 3:56 pm

Clibit wrote:
Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:39 pm
American Brown Ale is a style I really like, hope this turns out well for you. I'm sure it will. A good style for kit modding I think, the grains and the hops will transform it in to a quality brew I reckon.
I checked the gravity yesterday on day 8, and it's down to 1.013 (5.2%).

The flavours from the different malts tasted very promising, but I wasn't getting much in the way of hoppage. Now what would my friend Mr Wales do..........add more hops is the answer!

I checked what other pellets that I had in the freezer and Simcoe caught my eye and before I knew what had happened, 50g had found their way into the FV.

I am going to give them 3-4 days before I will rack the brew into a clean FV and onto the planned 50g of El Dorado pellets for stage 2 of the dry hopping.

A total dry hop of 7.4g per litre should do the trick :twisted:

Cheers

MB
FV:


Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: American Brown Ale Thang.....

Post by WalesAles » Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:08 pm

Monkeybrew wrote:
Sun Aug 27, 2017 3:56 pm
I wasn't getting much in the way of hoppage. Now what would my friend Mr Wales do..........add more hops is the answer!

Simcoe caught my eye

MB
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Too late now, but I would have bunged in 50gr Amarillo.
Simcoe will be good anyway! :D =D>

WA

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Re: American Brown Ale Thang.....

Post by Monkeybrew » Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:30 am

WalesAles wrote:
Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:08 pm
Monkeybrew wrote:
Sun Aug 27, 2017 3:56 pm
I wasn't getting much in the way of hoppage. Now what would my friend Mr Wales do..........add more hops is the answer!

Simcoe caught my eye

MB
Monkey,
Too late now, but I would have bunged in 50gr Amarillo.
Simcoe will be good anyway! :D =D>

WA

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I like to use pellet hops for dry hopping these days, so I was a bit limited on choice.

Sure it will be fine.

Cheers

MB
FV:


Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: American Brown Ale Thang.....

Post by Clibit » Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:37 pm

Simcoe is a good hop choice in my opinion. Some Amarillo on top would be the icing.

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