The homebrew recipe which started a style!
"PURPLE PASSION" BROWN ALE, from the Beverage People, being the fabled original 1980s homebrew kit upon which California Brown Ales, Texas Brown Ales, numerous popular commercial beers and finally the new American Homebrewing Association style American Brown Ale was based.
Some great historical background:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 6HJQWjq5MQ (contains more great recipes)
http://blog.stonebrew.com/index.php/bea ... #more-3066
http://texasbeerfreedom.org/2011/02/his ... rown-ales/
Extract with specialty grains recipe
5 US gallons = 4.2 Imperial gallons = 19 Liters
MALTBILL:
3.3 lbs. “John Bull” Light Malt Extract
3.3 lbs. “John Bull” Dark Malt Extract
1 lb. Medium Caramel 40 Malt
1/2 tsp. Gypsum
1/4 tsp. Calcium Chloride
1 tsp. Chalk
1 tsp. Irish Moss
HOPS:
3/4 oz. Northern Brewer Hop Pellets (60 min.) 26 IBU
1 oz. Northern Brewer Hop Pellets (30 min.) 12 IBU
1 1/2 oz. Cascade Hop Pellets (dry hopped) 6 IBU
Water to 5 gallons
3/4 cup Corn Sugar for priming
1 pack #1056 "American Ale", or #WLP023 "Burton Ale Yeast"
OG: 1.048
IBU: 44
Purple Passion Brown Ale (a BIG deal!)
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barney
Re: Purple Passion Brown Ale (a BIG deal!)
Just what, exactly, is in "dark malt extract" ?
How can that be reproduced in an all grain brew?
How can that be reproduced in an all grain brew?
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Re: Purple Passion Brown Ale (a BIG deal!)
I'm sure it's just the malt bill of a darker beer, condensed down like any other malt extract. Probably mostly pale malt plus some crystal/caramel, maybe a little roasted barley...barney wrote:Just what, exactly, is in "dark malt extract" ?
I've seem substitution charts online, but you're over-thinking it. Click on that first link for all-grain recipes of popular commercial beers in this style.barney wrote:...How can that be reproduced in an all grain brew?
But Barney, you're light-years beyond this stuff
Just brew something along the lines of your strong milds then grapefruity-American-hop the hell out of it, and you'll have something that'll take blue ribbon in the American Brown Ale category.