Brown Session ale

[riquez83]

Hi all, I'm chasing some advice, ideas and recipes - all extract, with maybe some partial grain steeping.

What I'm trying to achieve is a mild alcohol brown session ale which is low in bitterness and a slightly sweet malty caramel flavour. Can you recommend anything? I'm partial to JSGA but looking for something packing a little less punch and more sessionable for a hotter climate.

I'm leaning towards trying the mangrove jacks session brown ale pouch. It sounds spot on. Anyone tried this or have done something similar?

Cheers.

 

[Gigantorus]

Maybe a lighter version of an American Brown Ale? I originally used the Coopers Ol' Brown Dog recipe and played with it.

Maybe grab IanH's spreadsheet and play with it. I just played with IanH's spreadsheet and got rid of the LDME, which took it down to about 4.7% If you also dropped the Dark Ale back to 1.5kg it would bring it to around 4.5%.

Cheers,
Pete

 

[Lionman]

Golden ale packs a punch? First I heard of it...

This one uses similar hops to JSGA I think. Just an idea, never tried it.

Light DME - 1KG
Dark DME - 1KG

Carawheat Malt - 0.25KG
Carapils - 0.25KG

Dextrose - 0.2KG

Supa Alpha - 8g @ 60mins
Amarillo - 20g @ 15mins
Admiral - 20g @ 0mins

23L
EBC - 27
IBU - 21
ABV - 4.4% (bottle primed)

 

[barls]

an old recipe from me but it won a gold at the bathurst show fair few years ago.
partial mild
Selected Style and Target Specs
11A-English Brown Ale-Mild


Minimum OG: 1.030 SG Maximum OG: 1.038 SG
Minimum FG: 1.008 SG Maximum FG: 1.013 SG
Minimum IBU: 10 IBU Maximum IBU: 25 IBU
Minimum Color: 12.0 SRM Maximum Color: 25.0 SRM

Recipe Overview Wort Volume Before Boil: 5.00 l
Wort Volume After Boil: 4.25 l
Volume Transferred: 4.25 l
Water Added To Fermenter: 15.75 l
Volume At Pitching: 20.00 l
Volume Of Finished Beer: 19.00 l
Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.030
SG Expected OG: 1.038 SG
Expected IBU: (using Tinseth): 22.8 IBU
Expected Color: (using Morey): 17.9 SRM
BU:GU ratio: 0.60
Approx Color:
Mash Efficiency: 75.0 % Boil Duration: 60.0 mins Fermentation Temperature: 18 ˚C

Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
Australian Crystal 140 500 g 19.2 % 15.4 In Mash/Steeped
choc chit 200 g 7.7 % 19.2 In Mash/Steeped
Extract - Light Liquid Malt Extract 1.700 kg 65.4 % 2.4 End Of Boil
Extract - Light Dried Malt Extract 200 g 7.7 % 0.3 End Of Boil

Hops Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
German Northern Brewer 8.0 % 19 g 22.8 Loose Pellet Hops 60 Min From End
US Cluster 7.5 % 25 g 0.0 Loose Pellet Hops Dry-Hopped


the liquid malt extract was a ale can can't remember which one though.

 

[MastersBrewery]

an old recipe from me but it won a gold at the bathurst show fair few years ago.
partial mild
Selected Style and Target Specs
11A-English Brown Ale-Mild


Minimum OG: 1.030 SG Maximum OG: 1.038 SG
Minimum FG: 1.008 SG Maximum FG: 1.013 SG
Minimum IBU: 10 IBU Maximum IBU: 25 IBU
Minimum Color: 12.0 SRM Maximum Color: 25.0 SRM

Recipe Overview Wort Volume Before Boil: 5.00 l
Wort Volume After Boil: 4.25 l
Volume Transferred: 4.25 l
Water Added To Fermenter: 15.75 l
Volume At Pitching: 20.00 l
Volume Of Finished Beer: 19.00 l
Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.030
SG Expected OG: 1.038 SG
Expected IBU: (using Tinseth): 22.8 IBU
Expected Color: (using Morey): 17.9 SRM
BU:GU ratio: 0.60
Approx Color:
Mash Efficiency: 75.0 % Boil Duration: 60.0 mins Fermentation Temperature: 18 ˚C
Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
Australian Crystal 140 500 g 19.2 % 15.4 In Mash/Steeped
choc chit 200 g 7.7 % 19.2 In Mash/Steeped
Extract - Light Liquid Malt Extract 1.700 kg 65.4 % 2.4 End Of Boil
Extract - Light Dried Malt Extract 200 g 7.7 % 0.3 End Of Boil

Hops Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
German Northern Brewer 8.0 % 19 g 22.8 Loose Pellet Hops 60 Min From End
US Cluster 7.5 % 25 g 0.0 Loose Pellet Hops Dry-Hopped


the liquid malt extract was a ale can can't remember which one though.

A bit unfair quoting a recipe with choc chit or are you offering to donate some from your personal stash??

 

[barls]

none left unfortunately.

 

[riquez83]

When I say JSGA packs a punch I mean for my session buddies who are use to commercial mega swill. I could drink JSGA all night. The climate up here (darwin) is hot and we tend to drink a lot of thirst quenching lagers and a lot of them. Which given the climate are harder to brew, though I do have a keezer with temp control. I'm aiming for a reasonable well balanced session ale, though I want a bit of the craft beer influence if that makes sense. When I say brown I don't necessarily mean brown brown but a beer in the golden e.g. JSGA range to something like an London brown ale. Low in bitterness and slightly sweet caramel like

 

[sean83]

Hey Riquez83

I recently brewed the Mangrove Jack Session Ale - Albeit I did a partial mash with 1kg of pale ale grain and 300 grams of light dried malt extract. I had been told the pouch came out quite bitter so I opted not to add any hops to the boil. I dry hopped with 25 grams of Ek Goldings though. Really good, I am not huge on kit beers as I haven't brewed one in a long time but I must admit this hit the spot. Easy drinking and the partial mash takes the edge off the kit beer taste. I wouldn't take it over a well brewed all grain beer but for a quick easy week night brew done on the stove it was pretty good. Ill more than likely do it again and have it on rotation on my taps.

Sean