American Brown

[rude]

I have been looking in the flavours of the month section at American Browns & like the look of Docs recipe.

80.0 7.30 kg. JWM Traditional Ale Malt Australia 1.038 7
8.0 0.73 kg. Weyermann Caramunich II Germany 1.035 125
9.1 0.83 kg. JWM Wheat Malt Australia 1.040 4
3.0 0.27 kg. JWM Chocolate Malt Australia 1.032 750

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
28.00 g. Simcoe Pellet 14.70 33.1 60 min.
28.00 g. Amarillo Gold Pellet 8.90 15.2 40 min.
28.00 g. Chinook Pellet 12.17 9.2 20 min.
28.00 g. Cascade Pellet 5.40 2.4 10 min.

I havent got simcoe but have the rest also have centenial , pearle,target,

Would you go with the chinook, centennial for bittering ?

Also I have some 1272 & 1318 yeast but will go with 1272 I think

I will be doing 25litres into a cube will be aiming for %5 alcohol

Any experienced brewers with this style care to comment ?

thanks all

 

[Bizier]

I am not super experienced, but I'd sub chinook in place of simcoe for bittering for the resinous properties of the hops. Centennial is quite different in my opinon and is a much cleaner bitter. I much prefer it as an aroma hop.

I plan to brew a US brown tomorrow.

I know it is slightly off topic, but I have been using target in US beers because it has a similar but different vibe to US hops.

 

[threepwood]

Hi
Again, I'm not what you would call experienced but I brewed an American Brown a couple of weeks ago and used a Wyeast AmAle II with Northern Brewer for bittering, Cascade and Centennial for aroma.
Smells fantastic BTW :lol:
Threepwood

 

[Kleiny]

This is a great recipe although not within style it is brown and showcases american hops

Ive used 1056, US05 and now pacman on this all great.

Others really like this beer too

Operation Mongoose brown ale

Up to you but this is a great beer (congrats must go too the brewing network)

Kleiny

 

[haysie]

I have been looking in the flavours of the month section at American Browns & like the look of Docs recipe.

80.0 7.30 kg. JWM Traditional Ale Malt Australia 1.038 7
8.0 0.73 kg. Weyermann Caramunich II Germany 1.035 125
9.1 0.83 kg. JWM Wheat Malt Australia 1.040 4
3.0 0.27 kg. JWM Chocolate Malt Australia 1.032 750

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
28.00 g. Simcoe Pellet 14.70 33.1 60 min.
28.00 g. Amarillo Gold Pellet 8.90 15.2 40 min.
28.00 g. Chinook Pellet 12.17 9.2 20 min.
28.00 g. Cascade Pellet 5.40 2.4 10 min.

I havent got simcoe but have the rest also have centenial , pearle,target,

Would you go with the chinook, centennial for bittering ?

Also I have some 1272 & 1318 yeast but will go with 1272 I think

I will be doing 25litres into a cube will be aiming for %5 alcohol

Any experienced brewers with this style care to comment ?

thanks all

Centennial for bittering, 1272 is my 2 bobs. Browns, in betweens and darks, I reckon if you havent got a yeast that showcases, you should mix your dark content and make it more interesting, i.e instead of .27 of choc, make a mix of carafa, patent,choc,specialb to the same ebc/srm contet

 

[Bizier]

I brewed an American Brown a couple of weeks ago and used a Wyeast AmAle II with Northern Brewer for bittering, Cascade and Centennial for aroma.

That is my kind of combo.

Today I bittered with simcoe because I have no chinook, and i layered the following as cube additions: 5g simcoe, 5g centennial, 10g EKG, 15g target, 15g cascade, and I haven't worked out the dry hop yet. It was a double batch, with one cube going to a mate to be his first beer of the brewing season (for those with no temp control).

Just a thought, you could mix target, chinook and perle with a bias towards chinook to sub the simcoe.

 

[Kai]

By BJCP guidelines, my impression of American Brown is it's one style where you can 'English it up' a little, mainly that is dipping into some more characterful yeast strains and not worrying too much about stressing the big c-hop hit.

But, in my opinion the best American browns are the ones that taste like American ales... big, brash and citrusy.

So, I think you're really flexible on yeast. The obvious choice is US-05 / WY1056 / WLP01 but I'd go any ale yeast that's not to funky.

On hops, doc's recipe looks fine. I'd be more gung-ho on simcoe myself as I believe it's a great flavour hop as well as a great bittering hop for american ales. In a brown ale especially I think it throws out some great orange-mandarin flavours that complement choc malt nicely.

 

[rude]

Great advice there crew thanks

Klieny I think you have swayed me might give youres a go with 1272 yeast though.

Plus I do 25 litre no chill so same size