First recipie Brown Ale opinions wanted

[OneShoe]

Trying my hand at doing my own recipie for my third brew, wanting to do a dark ale and I have come up with the follow, opinions please and be nice !



Stefans Brown Ale American Brown Ale
Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 21.0
Total Grain (kg): 6.050
Total Hops (g): 62.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.060 (°P): 14.7
Final Gravity (FG): 1.015 (°P): 3.8
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.89 %
Colour (SRM): 28.0 (EBC): 55.2
Bitterness (IBU): 38.8 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 68
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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4.900 kg Pale Malt (80.99%)
0.600 kg Caramunich III (9.92%)
0.300 kg Crystal 120 (4.96%)
0.200 kg Chocolate (3.31%)
0.050 kg Roasted Barley (0.83%)

Hop Bill
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20.0 g Centennial Pellet (9.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1 g/L)
12.0 g Centennial Pellet (9.7% Alpha) @ 15 Minutes (Boil) (0.6 g/L)
10.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (0.5 g/L)
20.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 5 Days (Dry Hop) (1 g/L)

Misc Bill
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3.0 g Kopperfloc @ 0 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 67°C for 60 Minutes. Fermented at 18°C with
Recipe Generated with BrewMate

 

[stakka82]

Personally I would cut the caramunich to about 5 percent and use the centennial later perhaps cascade at 60, but apart from that looks tasty and not overly complicated.

 

[manticle]

Drop the total crystal/cara back to 500g total (or less).

Otherwise looks good.

 

[OneShoe]

Thanks,

how can I get the color back when I drop those down? Bit more roasted?


cheers

 

[Rowy]

Thanks,
how can I get the color back when I drop those down? Bit more roasted?
cheers

Carafa special

 

[lukiferj]

The choc and roasted barley should already give you a fair bit of colour.

 

[OneShoe]

Changed to 300g of Cara and 300g of Dark Crystal, see how that goes.

 

[Rowy]

IMHO that is still a lot. About 5% total is good otherwise you may find it quite sweet.

 

[bum]

No more than 5% spec grains in a 39 IBU American Brown? For real?

 

[stakka82]

Yeah I gotta second that, I don't see any beef with up to 10-12%, some pale ales are at that level.

 

[OneShoe]

Ok made some changes to grains and hops, think I might just make it and learn from it:

Stefans Brown Moo Juice
American Brown Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 21.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.950
Total Hops (g): 90.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.059 (°P): 14.5
Final Gravity (FG): 1.015 (°P): 3.8
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.80 %
Colour (SRM): 27.3 (EBC): 53.8
Bitterness (IBU): 45.1 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 68
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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4.900 kg Pale Malt (82.35%)
0.500 kg Caramunich III (8.4%)
0.300 kg Crystal 120 (5.04%)
0.200 kg Chocolate (3.36%)
0.050 kg Roasted Barley (0.84%)

Hop Bill
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20.0 g Centennial Pellet (9.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1 g/L)
15.0 g Centennial Pellet (9.7% Alpha) @ 15 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
20.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (1 g/L)
35.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 5 Days (Dry Hop) (1.7 g/L)

Misc Bill
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3.0 g Kopperfloc @ 0 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 67°C for 60 Minutes. Fermented at 18°C with Wyeast 1056 - American Ale

 

[Aydos]

I think it looks great, should definitely brew it, then ill come and drink it all!

 

[OneShoe]

You are only my friend for the beers. But that is ok I don't mind. You are just upset my beers are better

 

[Nick JD]

Looks delicious. Consider it stolen.

 

[Aydos]

Yep you got it in one, I hear your IPA calling out to me now. I had better keg it, it sounds lonely out there!