In Search Of A Good Amber Ale Recipe

[Jazzafish]

I've have a love hate relationship with this beer. Me and my mates love it, but I hate it when they come over with a 6 pack of swill, drink my beer and leave the 6 pack of swill in my fridge! Guess they are trying to be polite? <_<

Very simple recipe

25 Litres
4.2Kg of JW Ale
600g of JW Wheat
200g of JW Dark Crystal
50g of JW Choc

Northern Brewer to 18 IBU's at 60mins
1 gram a Litre of Williamete at flame out.

 

[Supra-Jim]

I've have a love hate relationship with this beer. Me and my mates love it, but I hate it when they come over with a 6 pack of swill, drink my beer and leave the 6 pack of swill in my fridge! Guess they are trying to be polite? <_<

Hmmm.... I have similar experience with a mate and six packs of Low Carb beer!!!! Megaswill has its place (well certain brands), but diet beer, arrgghhh!!!! :angry:

 

[koongara]

here's one of my Ambers, I like it but am brewing bigger ones now

23l batch mashed at 65deg C target OG 1048 FG 1010

Malt
pale ale 4000g
crystal 60L 500g
crystal 140L 300g
wheat malt 250g
Hops
60 min 15g Chinook @ 12% AA
30 min 15g Cascade @ 6.3% AA
10 min 25g Cascade @ 6.3% AA

Yeast - ferment at 20deg C with a US yeast (fermentis 05 or Wyeast 1056)

If you want more hop aroma put the 10 min addition to 0 min

Dont over carbonate it is my only other tip, oh and drink lots of it!

Cheers Dazzla

 

[Screwtop]

Have a look
Recipe Here Probably way over the top with a **** load of hops but you could cut em back a little :lol:


You need Dig to chime in here Jay, hows about it Dean any suggestions on creating something close to JSAA

Screwy

 

[therook]

You wont be disappointed with this, i promise

4.00 kg Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (5.9 EBC) Grain 72.7 %
0.60 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (17.7 EBC) Grain 10.9 %
0.30 kg Crystal, Dark (Joe White) (250.0 EBC) Grain 5.5 %
0.25 kg Carafoam (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 4.5 %
0.20 kg Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett) (49.3 EBC) Grain 3.6 %
0.15 kg Amber Malt (Joe White) (45.3 EBC) Grain 2.7 %
40.00 gm Northern Brewer [6.60%] (60 min) Hops 25.8 IBU
13.00 gm Williamette [4.50%] (10 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
7.00 gm Williamette [4.30%] (10 min) Hops 1.1 IBU
20.00 gm Williamette [4.50%] (1 min) Hops 0.4 IBU
1.00 tsp Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 90.0 min) Misc
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale US56 Dry Yeast



Mash Profile Name: Single Infusion


Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 14.08 L of water at 74.0 C 66.0 C 90 min
Mash Out Add 9.18 L of water at 91.6 C 75.0 C 10 min



Rook

 

[warrenlw63]

You wont be disappointed with this, i promise

4.00 kg Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (5.9 EBC) Grain 72.7 %
0.60 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (17.7 EBC) Grain 10.9 %
0.30 kg Crystal, Dark (Joe White) (250.0 EBC) Grain 5.5 %
0.25 kg Carafoam (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 4.5 %
0.20 kg Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett) (49.3 EBC) Grain 3.6 %
0.15 kg Amber Malt (Joe White) (45.3 EBC) Grain 2.7 %
40.00 gm Northern Brewer [6.60%] (60 min) Hops 25.8 IBU
13.00 gm Williamette [4.50%] (10 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
7.00 gm Williamette [4.30%] (10 min) Hops 1.1 IBU
20.00 gm Williamette [4.50%] (1 min) Hops 0.4 IBU
1.00 tsp Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 90.0 min) Misc
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale US56 Dry Yeast



Mash Profile Name: Single Infusion


Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 14.08 L of water at 74.0 C 66.0 C 90 min
Mash Out Add 9.18 L of water at 91.6 C 75.0 C 10 min



Rook

+1 Better than JS Amber. :icon_cheers:


Warren -

 

[devo]

+1(rooks tis a good drop) :wub:

 

[jayandcath]

You wont be disappointed with this, i promise

4.00 kg Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (5.9 EBC) Grain 72.7 %
0.60 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (17.7 EBC) Grain 10.9 %
0.30 kg Crystal, Dark (Joe White) (250.0 EBC) Grain 5.5 %
0.25 kg Carafoam (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 4.5 %
0.20 kg Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett) (49.3 EBC) Grain 3.6 %
0.15 kg Amber Malt (Joe White) (45.3 EBC) Grain 2.7 %
40.00 gm Northern Brewer [6.60%] (60 min) Hops 25.8 IBU
13.00 gm Williamette [4.50%] (10 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
7.00 gm Williamette [4.30%] (10 min) Hops 1.1 IBU
20.00 gm Williamette [4.50%] (1 min) Hops 0.4 IBU
1.00 tsp Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 90.0 min) Misc
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale US56 Dry Yeast



Mash Profile Name: Single Infusion


Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 14.08 L of water at 74.0 C 66.0 C 90 min
Mash Out Add 9.18 L of water at 91.6 C 75.0 C 10 min



Rook

Thanks Rook, looks the goods. I will give it a while and let you know the results.

Jay

 

[drsmurto]

english amber ale = brown porter?

Like the look of Rooks recipe, just got me some more Williamette so have nabbed that one.

Have this on tap at the moment, is it a dark ale, is it an amber ale or a brown porter? And is there any difference?

Been in the keg for nearly 4 months and is sublime.

5.25 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 85.37 %
0.25 kg Amber Malt (Bairds) (100.0 EBC) Grain 4.07 %
0.25 kg Chocolate Malt (Bairds) (1100.0 EBC) Grain 4.07 %
0.25 kg Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 4.07 %
0.15 kg Crystal, Dark (Bairds) (240.0 EBC) Grain 2.44 %
80.00 gm Fuggles [3.90 %] (60 min) Hops 28.4 IBU
30.00 gm Fuggles [3.90 %] (20 min) Hops 7.0 IBU
25.00 gm Fuggles [3.90 %] (0 min) Hops -
0.50 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs London Ale (Wyeast Labs #1028) [Starter 2500 ml] Yeast-Ale

25L, OG 1.054, IBU 35, EBC 50, 70% efficiency.

2nd place Dark Ale at ANAWBS 2008.

 

[Tony]

Tony knows everything about american beers. They are his favourite. Any questions about American Amber Ales, American Pale Ales etc - see tony. He is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to basically anything american...

mmmmm I love them like dog poo :lol:

Rooks recipe looks great!

cheers

 

[///]

Was at a trade night last night and Chuck Hahn was the keynote speaker. He said they use 20% crystal in the JS Amber - thats a crap load.

JW does a lower weight Crystal, so that may be the reason. Anyways, i find about 5-7% Crystal, a Choc Malt addition to bump the colour to 21 EBC and bittering between 26-30 IBU's will get you there.

Also, the key thing I have found in a commercial batch I am doing is pH. Anything above 5.4 and the beer will be ot of balance - pH too high and the wort will be too high in unfermentables and you will get a sticky, cloying beer . Buffering with about 400 ppm of Chloride and Gypsum should get you there with the dark malts. I think the 400ppm is about 20gm in a 22l batch (???), anyways, check your strike water and call a mate who knows some chemistry if that helps.

Scotty

 

[goatherder]

Keith from Potters made a great Amber not too far back. He didn't divulge all the details but said he added some plain sugar to offset a big crystal percentage. The beer had a huge crystal flavour profile but finished dry enough to make it a real quaffer. Top beer.

 

[mikelinz]

That's it I'm making this one for sure. The LCBA clone is a regular on tap here and I reckon it's better than the stubbies of it I boit.

Ok so whats the recipe for LCBA

 

[Henno]

Ha ha ha ha. Use the search function.

 

[Henno]

I think I found it for ya. linky

This is the discussion thread that I gleaned a lot from linky2

 

[mikelinz]

I think I found it for ya. linky

This is the discussion thread that I gleaned a lot from linky2

Search? what style is that??? ~

 

[Tony]

Search? what style is that??? ~

A seldomly used one that never seems to work very well.

 

[mossyrocks]

I'm brewing my 2nd one of these today. Not sure where I got the recipe from - possibly from the recipeDB but anyway it is most enjoyable :-


BeerSmith Recipe Printout - www.beersmith.com
Recipe: American Amber Ale
Brewer: mossyrocks
Asst Brewer:
Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (0.0)

Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 22.00 L
Boil Size: 26.96 L
Estimated OG: 1.052 SG
Estimated Color: 12.0 SRM
Estimated IBU: 40.1 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 68.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.90 kg Pale Malt (Barrett Burston) (2.0 SRM) Grain 71.6 %
0.50 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (6.0 SRM) Grain 9.2 %
0.40 kg Carared (Weyermann) (24.0 SRM) Grain 7.3 %
0.30 kg Amber Malt (Joe White) (23.0 SRM) Grain 5.5 %
0.30 kg Melanoidin (Weyermann) (30.0 SRM) Grain 5.5 %
0.05 kg Chocolate Malt (Joe White) (381.0 SRM) Grain 0.9 %
30.00 gm Amarillo [8.20%] (90 min) Hops 29.3 IBU
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (20 min) Hops 6.4 IBU
10.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (10 min) Hops 2.5 IBU
10.00 gm Amarillo [8.20%] (5 min) Hops 1.8 IBU
10.00 gm Amarillo [8.90%] (0 min) Hops -
10.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (0 min) Hops -
0.50 tsp Koppafloc (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion 152
Total Grain Weight: 5.45 kg
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Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Step Add 10.81 L of water at 77.0 C 68.0 C 60 min
Step Add 9.01 L of water at 92.3 C 78.0 C 20 min
Step Add 12.61 L of water at 97.1 C 85.0 C 10 min

 

[DUANNE]

does any one know of a good extract clone of squires amber ale. ive tried a couple of internet recipes but no real luck so far.

 

[warra48]

does any one know of a good extract clone of squires amber ale. ive tried a couple of internet recipes but no real luck so far.

You could try this. It's one I made very early in my brewing career, but my notes indicate it was a really nice drink.

Muntons Premium Blonde
Morgans Amber Malt Extract 1.5kg
Cluster 12 gr teabag or equivalent
Dry Corn Syrup 250g
Safale S-04