Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

[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

[196osh]

Looks good man. .

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

[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.

[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.

[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/

[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.

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?

[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

I'll take whatever you recommend

[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.

[mysterio]

Whoops, sorry, the witbier was demolished about 5 days ago

Better update my signature, Garth's SNPA is all I have on tap, 3/4s of a keg left

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.

[196osh]

Dang it

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.

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)

[mysterio]

Couple of quick piccies, doughed in 10 minutes ago now time for some breakfast

[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.

[delboy]

Good luck with the brewday, be sure and update us on the use of the bicarbonate.

[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!

[196osh]

Spy, is what I have always thought!

Bond, James Bond is a member of JBK.