RecipeDB - Old Dart Southern Brown

[technocat]

Old Dart Southern Brown

Ale - English Brown
All Grain

Brewer's Notes

A unorthodox recipe I put together and turned out a nice well balanced beer.
Gypsum added for rainwater pH 6.3 one small teaspoon pH stabilizer to mash.
Tasting Notes: A malt driven beer with a slight hint of caramel, hop finish on the back of the palate. No sweetness detected.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	3.5 kg	JWM Traditional Ale Malt
	1 kg	Weyermann Vienna
	0.3 kg	Weyermann Caraaroma
	0.2 kg	JWM Wheat Malt

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	30 g	First Gold (Pellet, 7.5AA%, 10mins)
	20 g	Challenger (Pellet, 7.5AA%, 60mins)
	20 g	Goldings, East Kent (Pellet, 5.0AA%, 0mins)

Yeast

12 g

DCL Yeast US-05 - American Ale

Misc

	10 g	Irish Moss
	1 tsp	Gypsum

19L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.062 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.016 (calc)
• Bitterness 28.7 IBU
• Efficiency 75%
• Alcohol 5.99%
• Colour 31 EBC
• Batch Size 19L

Fermentation

• Primary 7 days
• Secondary 7 days
• Conditioning 3 days

 

[Bribie G]

I wouldn't call it a Southern Brown, more of an Old Ale. When I lived in Cardiff you could get a dark 'strong ale' in half pint bottles and the steelworkers used to get a half of dark mild in a pint glass and top it up with the Strong. "Strong and Dark". No longer available unfortunately.
In fact it's getting more into the style of Old Peculier :icon_cheers:

Edit: your beer pips Old Peculier by .3% in ABV, be interesting what it's like in six weeks or so.

 

[technocat]

I wouldn't call it a Southern Brown, more of an Old Ale. When I lived in Cardiff you could get a dark 'strong ale' in half pint bottles and the steelworkers used to get a half of dark mild in a pint glass and top it up with the Strong. "Strong and Dark". No longer available unfortunately.
In fact it's getting more into the style of Old Peculier :icon_cheers:

I did say it was unorthodox but surprisingly a very tasty beer of which I would have a half pint before tea and another during dinner. I had no English Ale yeast so it got dumped on a US-05 yeast cake. Sacrilege some would say but 'hey' it worked and worth sharing as a little above the ordinary although definitely not a session beer. The reasoning behind the description was about the the closest I could find in Beersmith. But thanks for the input and any criticisms graciously recieved

:beer: Brian

 

[Bribie G]

US-05 is surprisingly versatile. I once made a Ruddles County tribute using it because my Wyeast 1768 wasn't culturing up from a sample bottle I had kept and US-05 was the only option at the time. Turned out fine.