Flavour Of The Week 22/3/10- Southern English Brown

[Barry]

I could never get the depth of malt character with this style. What I did was to use a third more malt and only collect 20 L and add 10 L of the hot water to it. This gave me 30L at the start of the boil (a no sparge beer). This gave the beer i wanted.

OG 1.042, FG 1.015, IBU 15, 3.5%

4.5 kg Maris Otter
0.5 kg Caramalt JW
0.3 kg CaraAroma
0.3 kg Carafra Special I
0.2 kg Dark Crystal (JW?)
0.1 kg Crystal 90 EBC
0.3 kg Amber malt

30 gm EKG 60 mins

5gms CaCl2

WLP004

Mashed at 69oC

Hope this helps.

 

[peas_and_corn]

Thoughts on this recipe?


50L

8kg Marris Otter
300g Choc Malt
300g Special B
300g Crystal 120

50g Fuggles at 60

Nottingham ale yeast

OG 1042 (so upper limits of this style)
16.4 IBUs

 

[manticle]

Hmm, well TBH if I were making a southern English brown I wouldn't be heading for the darker end of the spectrum that the guidelines allow for anyway. I'd personally use choc and an upper lovibond crystal to get some colour, then maybe one of the cara- grains to get the caramel flavour.

Cheers. Just looking at various possible ways of tweaking some of my vaguely english style beers.

 

[DiscoStu]

Was thinking this for recipe

Recipe: Southern Brown Ale
Brewer: Stuart
Style: Southern English Brown Ale
TYPE: All Grain

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 25.00 L
Boil Size: 30.60 L
Estimated OG: 1.039 SG
Estimated Color: 51.7 EBC
Estimated IBU: 16.7 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.50 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) 77.43 %
0.50 kg Crystal, Light (Joe White) (141.8 EBC) 11.06 %
0.20 kg Brown Malt (Bairds) (180.0 EBC) 4.42 %
0.20 kg Chocolate Malt (Joe White) (800.0 EBC) 4.42 %
0.12 kg Carafa II (Weyermann) (817.6 EBC) 2.65 %
35.00 gm Fuggles [4.50 %] (60 min) 16.7 IBU
1.00 tsp Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 min)
1 Pkgs London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968) [StarteYeast-Ale

Got a Mild in the fermentor at the moment, might do this next so I can compare them