Janet's Brown Ale 7-6-08

[kitoog]

I got this recipe in Brewing Classic Styles by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer. Its a really good book with 80 winning recipes. There are so many I want to do. The recipe is by Jamil's mate Mike McDole and it won the 2004 National Homebrew Competition gold for its category. Its a big beer for me at 6.7% but I just had to try it. The recipe calls for 28g Northern Brewer(6.5%) to be mashed, which I nearly forgot to do. Its in the fermenter now with US-05 yeast and all worked out well. I do not have any centennial for dryhop so Iwill have to use cascade as its closest Ihave I think.

Janet's Brown Ale
10-C American Brown Ale

Size: 22.0 L
Efficiency: 72%
Attenuation: 75.2%
Calories: 220.09 per 12 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.066 (1.045 - 1.060)
Terminal Gravity: 1.016 (1.010 - 1.016)
Color: 26.0 (18.00 - 35.00)
Alcohol: 6.52% (4.30% - 6.20%)
Bitterness: 63 (including mashed hops in calcs)

Ingredients:
5.1 kg Maris Otter Pale
.45 kg Belgian Wheat Malt
.56 kg Crystal Malt 40°L
.56 kg Belgian Cara-Pils
.227 kg English Chocolate Malt
28 g N Brewer (6.5%)mashed

36 g Northern Brewer (6.5%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
28 g Northern Brewer (6.5%) - added during boil, boiled 15 min
43 g Cascade (6%) - added during boil, boiled 10 min
43 g Cascade (6%) - added during boil, boiled 0 min
57 g Centennial (9%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
9.30 fl oz White Labs WLP060 American Ale Yeast Blend

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[russt1969]

Yet another one to add to the to do list!!!!
Looks nice. How long did you mash it for? Good luck

[kitoog]

the mash is 60 min. Really interested to see how this tastes in a few weeks as its my first brown ale brew.

[russt1969]

I look forward to hearing about it. Ordered the stuff so will be brewing it in a few weeks time. Going to do Thomas Hardy's Country Bitter 1st then this one

[steve_flack]

That's one I'm looking to do sometime later this year.

[Vossy1]

Nice one K, another fine brew
I can't wait to start on this book, it';s just sat on a shelf at the mo

[ECR]

Hope it went well.

[mattmacleod]

This was the first beer I brewed after I got the book at Christmas. It's very good indeed, especially if you like hops!

To be honest, every recipe I've tried from that book has been good.

[steve_flack]

I haven't found a duff one yet either.

[The Mighty Badger]

If I am reading the recipe correctly you have included some hops in the mash?

If so, can anyone explain the how and why?

[stevezx7r]

Yeah, some peeps add hops during the mash. Basically, your adding bitterness to the beer so your saving yourself from adding them later. I'm thinking about this at the mo...

[The Mighty Badger]

Would that increase the utilisation % for those hops added during the mash i.e. a longer time for extraction to take place?

Any downsides? I've never heard of it before and wonder why everyone isn't doing it.

[The Mighty Badger]

Seems to be all you need to know on the subject - there maybe soemthing in the theory but in practice it probably just isn't worth the hassle.

[steve_flack]

Mike McDole (who's recipe it is) seems very keen on mash hopping whereas Jamil Zainasheff (who wrote the majority of the recipes in the book) hardly ever uses it. In fact I think there's only one recipe of his that uses it - his I2PA recipe that is based on the commercial Pliny the Elder recipe.