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Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:45 pm
by mysterio
What do you think of this one guys, don't think i've ever made a brown ale so feedback is welcome. I'm not trying to be clever with the three different kinds of crystal, i'm just using up leftovers. Aiming for a halfway house between English and American brown, I suppose. I'm looking forward to seeing what the British ale yeast brings to the table and the Glacier hops too.

Oh yeah, and it's deliberately heavily late hopped, I want to test my theory that my boil pH due to soft water is extracting hop tannin. I'm going to add some bicarbonates to the brewing liquor to see if I can't resolve this.

Glacier Brown Ale
Northern English Brown Ale

Type: All Grain
Date: 03/09/2009
Batch Size: 6.00 US gal
Boil Size: 6.87 gal Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.80 kg Pale Malt, Lower Colour Maris Otter (3.0 EBC) Grain 80.00 %
0.25 kg Biscuit Malt (45.3 EBC) Grain 5.26 %
0.20 kg Chocolate Malt (886.5 EBC) Grain 4.21 %
0.15 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (236.4 EBC) Grain 3.16 %
0.10 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (78.8 EBC) Grain 2.11 %
0.10 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 2.11 %
14.00 gm Magnum [12.50 %] (60 min) Hops 18.8 IBU
50.00 gm Glacier [5.60 %] (10 min) Hops 10.9 IBU
50.00 gm Glacier [5.60 %] (0 min) Hops -
0.15 kg Brown Sugar, Light (15.8 EBC) Sugar 3.16 %
1 Pkgs British Ale (White Labs #WLP005) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile

Measured Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Actual Alcohol by Vol: 5.21 %
Bitterness: 29.7 IBU Calories: 220 cal/pint
Est Color: 41.8 EBC Color: Color

Mash Profile

My Mash Step Time Name Description Step Temp
60 min Step Add 12.42 L of water at 73.3 C 67.0 C

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:01 pm
by 196osh
Looks good man. :mrgreen:.

If you ever bottle any of your beers I would like to do a bottle swap with you sometime.

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:13 pm
by mysterio
Alright, cool. I could even just meet up with you in town to swap when term starts again. Sending bottles cost me a frickin fortune last time. I'll bottle a few of these up and you can tell me what you think.

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:25 pm
by 196osh
Good stuff, I can't afford to send anything. So having an experienced brewer near is good, you can say where I have went wrong. :lol:

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:33 pm
by mysterio
Sounds like you have a good deal of knowledge already. But yeah I imagine it is good to have other brewers taste your beer. This is something i've been sorely lacking and i've tried to make up for it reading the forum. I thought about starting a brewing group when I started uni but 4th year rolls around before you know it :?

Can't seem to find the time for Calum's SCB meetings either, always seems to fall on the wrong date

http://www.scottishcraftbrewers.org/

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:54 pm
by 196osh
I pick up things fast thankfully, the type of degree helps with all the sciencey stuff. Fourth year is such fun, glad I wont have to go through it for again for a while.

At this rate it'll be years and years till I have a fourth year again. :lol:

The craft brewers thing looks interesting, not sure about the location though.

What of my beers would you like to try? Whens that flanders red going to be ready?

:D

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:04 pm
by mysterio
Well, the gods will decide when the Flanders is ready I guess. The pellicle is supposed to fall back after a year (and it has been going for about that long). I'll draw off a sample later in the month. Still have to brew a red ale to blend it with. So little time :shock:

I'll take whatever you recommend :D

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:11 pm
by 196osh
haha, ye of too much faith. The pale ale I just had is nice, and the IPA is great nice and hoppy. I am just about to have one. Those sound good or would you prefer the stout?

Can you bottle from cornies? That wit bier looks good. :twisted:

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:14 pm
by mysterio
Whoops, sorry, the witbier was demolished about 5 days ago :oops: :oops:

Better update my signature, Garth's SNPA is all I have on tap, 3/4s of a keg left :lol:
Can you bottle from cornies?
Yes, Chris has a simple method for doing this, just chill the cornie down and get a long length of 3/16 beer line so the beer doesnt foam up, jam it into the bottle. Works a treat.

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:32 pm
by 196osh
Dang it :cry:

The IPA is pretty bitter, made somewhat of an error with my batch sparge volumes so ended up with 13 litres instead of 15.

Just worked out that I have 76 IBU's in there. :lol:

So if like me your taste buds have been imuniesed against bitteness (nearly) then you might like that. I could tell mines were ruined when I tried the Hardcore IIPA out of the fermenter at BrewDog 150IBUs; when everybody else was going on about how bitter it tasted and needed a few weeks to mature. I thought they could do with upping the IBUs...(I know they can't) :cry:

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:01 am
by mysterio
Couple of quick piccies, doughed in 10 minutes ago now time for some breakfast

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:16 am
by adm
Waddayamean Breakfast? I'm in Singapore and it's teatime....or at least Tiger beer time!

I'll be interested to see how this comes out - I was thinking about doing a brown ale sometime soon, but with some of the Brown Malt Paul has at BB.

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:16 am
by delboy
Good luck with the brewday, be sure and update us on the use of the bicarbonate.

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:21 am
by mysterio
Hey ADM, what job is it you have that allows you to travel to these exotic places and still have time to brew several batches of beer a month :?: I want it!

Re: Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:29 am
by 196osh
Spy, is what I have always thought!

Bond, James Bond is a member of JBK. :twisted: