Style Of The Week 30/5/07 - American Brown

[Byran]

Oh that looks good Midnight. I been making english browns of late and Im always tempted to throw heaps of fruity hops at them....... I love this style

 

[Midnight Brew]

Brewed a double of this today.

Dark Ale V2
JW Trad Ale 55%
JW Munich Light 20%
JW Wheat 10%
JW Crystal 6%
JW Dark Crystal 6%
Weyermann Carafa Special I 3%

Temp 55/62/67/72/78
Time 5/10/50/10/Raise Bag

FWH Cascade and Super Alpha
Cube Hop, Cascade, Super Alpha and Citra
5 min mini boil Cascade and Super Alpha
Dry Hop Cascade and Super Alpha about 1.5g p/l
Wy Greenbelt

Fell short on gravity and volume. :unsure:
Target OG 1.050
Actual OG 1.048
Target Vol 44L
Actual 42L
Estimate colour 42.2 EBC
Estimate IBU 40.7

She's drinking fine, got a spare cube so will stick to this hoping schedule and maybe throw some spare citra at it too. Only 2 weeks in the bottle and its brilliant. My Vic July case swap beer.

 

[rude]

Trying to formulate one of these American Browns all comments appreciated

Using Brew Mate & Brun only discrepancy is the SRM for carramunich 11
BrewMate has it at 63 SRM cant change Wey has it at 120 SRM entered into Brun

4 kg Mariss Otter 5 SRM
400g Munich 1 70 SRM
100g Choc 350 SRM
100g Carramunich 11 120 SRM
100g Pale Wheat 4 SRM

chinook 11.5 AA 12g 60 mins 17.33 IBUs
centennial 9.1 AA 18g 1 min 7.62 IBUS
cascade 6.8 AA 25g 1 min 7.91 IBUs
Total 31,29 IBUs

14 L mash in
28 L mash out sparge
34 L pre boil 23 L batch in cube

OG 1051 FG 1013 thinking of using either wyeast 1009 or Nottingham

Using R/O water Brun Full

IN MASH Caso4 0.84g CaCl2 1.4 g Mgso4 0.7 g NaHco3 0.98 g (used this to get sodium up & mash to higher end) ?
IN KETTLE 1.68g 2.8 g 1.4 g

Estimated Mash PH 5.6 will check 15 to 20 mins in adjusting with lactic acid to 5,5 PH ?

Havent got a lot of malt variety at hand
Have Magnum, Amarrillo bit of Citra,Pearle hops at hand

Brew mate has SRM at 12.4 Brun 5.9 not sure about these figures
Style calls for 5 to 14 SRM