Brown Ale Recipe Development: Perfecting the House Homebrews
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Mike unveils his Brown Ale Recipe Development project.
Since he loves brown ale and has been haphazardly tweaking a Brown Ale for years. Tired of going back and forth with different ingredients Mike plans to focus in and really drive this recipe forward.
Mike wants a Brown Ale with noticeable toasty character backed by a hint of caramel flavor. Medium-light body and 5% ABV should round out a great sessionable Brown Ale to have on the house kegerator rotation.
This video kicks off his first attempt. We discuss where this recipe hits and where it misses.
Cheers!
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Newcastle brings back great memories in college! One of my first favorite beers in college and then I studied abroad in England for a semester. I haven't had it in a good minute, but even back then my English flatmates weren't too keen. They called it Nuclear Brown🤣 I still enjoyed it regardless at the time. Brown Ales have been out of sight and out of mind for me and this makes me want to brew a good legit brown ale like you did. An old college buddy I still live not far away from would be ecstatic and it would certainly be a good brew for nostalgia. Cheers!
Nice one! Speaking of potential yeasts to play around with on a Brown Ale, a close friend of mine in New Zealand is brewing a Brown Ale recipe from a guy here in the US that calls for Nottingham Ale (LB-NOTT). Brown ales are often under-appreciated. I always love it when you highlight this important beer style. Cheers dudes, and brew on!🍺🍻
Cheers Skid.😎👍
@@finnroohomebrewing Cheers Finnroo!🍺🍻
Another great video. I love brown ales as well, particularly the Northern English style. As with a prior video, I think the use of Special Roast is key in getting some of the toasty/nutty character. I think a good benchmark for determining how Mike's beers turn out is how quickly John puts them away during the video. In this case, it appears this beer is a clear winner.
One of my favorite homebrew channels, guys. Content is top notch, keep it up! Interested to see the next iteration of this beer.
Dudes, slow down! I can't keep up. On Jan. 2nd I brewed John's Vienna Lager recipe (one of his many iterations). My first attempt at a lager. Then after watching one of your videos where Mike brewed a Munich with harvested yeast, I was inspired to follow suit this past weekend. But wait, last's weeks APA with Cascade, Amarillo, and Citra had me placing this on the 'next to brew' list. And now you go and tempt me with a Brown Ale recipe?!?! Well, I figure the scientist, in Mike, will 'futz' with this recipe long enough for me to catch up. Gotta keep Brewin' On!! Thanks Dudes!
HA!!! We're only getting started. Maybe you just need to keep your kettle hot so you can keep up! Cheers! -Mike
Another Great video gentlemen!! I'll have to try this recipe. Looks delicious
That recipe sounds like a winner! Love a brown beer, looking forward to see it's evolution.
Its pretty good but needs some modifications. Next time. Cheers! -Mike
I am right in Mike's world - Brown ale is my favorite beer to brew and I have also been looking to perfect my recipe. I had it nailed in November, but when I tried to re-brew it on a new system (my Anvil Foundry died) I missed wildly. My 5.5% nutty, chocolatey brown ale perfection turned into an 8% beast. The struggle for a perfect brown ale will be one of my main brewing goals again in 2023. Thanks guys for another inspiring video!!
Thanks, some good points to ponder.
You get this recipe tuned in, I may be convinced to try Brown again. I've never been a big fan because there are so many bad Brown Ales out there. I've tried the local Breweries and around here, and well, they suck. And that's putting it lightly.
one of my favorites thankyou will have ago
I just love brown ale!
Speaking for myself I'd be quite happy to see multiple revisits to this. Newcastle Brown Ale was my beer of choice back in my much younger days in late 80s/early 90s UK (and I also remember it as a very different beer from today's version) so I can empathise with the desire to create a good brown ale. As homebrewers I think we're often trying to recreate a personal experience of beer rather than a perfect clone as such, so seeing someone else refining their own model of a style is interesting even if I'm very famliar with it.
I love the direction you guys are going in cheers!
I think as a newbie brewer 10+/- years ago, probably my 3'rd batch was a Moose Drool clone, don't think I ever re-brewed a brown since. Mostly because of the cool story, next brew on deck is "Tasty" McDole's "Janet's Brown". Then, unrelated, I was in my local liquor store and saw a Moose Drool for the first time in my life, a wonderful beer. Brown's have never been on my radar, now I'm rethinking that. Looking forward to Janet's, as well as your fine tuning yours Mike 👍🍻
Funny enough I'm brewing a brown at the moment. Using Nottingham. Loved your chat. Cheers. 😎👍
Looks good Mike. Looking forward to HBA#2
Love brown ale. Have an American brown on tap now. Was that a Christian Bale reference John? “ooh good for you!!” Hey great vid, seems like Mike is getting close to what he wants for a house brown. Man that beer was brilliant. Cheers from Uxbridge.
I love the BCS recipe for London Brown Porter. I’ve been brewing it without modification, just trying different yeasts, for four batches. I might have to give yours a try though!
LA3 was super distinctive in the flavor and mouthfeel, for me. Very soft mouthfeel and a fruity flavor. Didn’t match what I want in a brown, which is a big malty flavor yet a dry finish. WhiteLabs’ London Ale got me closest, so far. 007 got me the attenuation I wanted but was lacking in flavor.
I love a belgian yeast in a brown ale, try it out sometime :) A commercial example that does this too is Rye River Revelation Brown ale.
Do you have a prefered strain of Belgian yeast? What's the primary flavor profile target? Cheers! -Mike
Very good. I like this sort of recipe development content, and I like Brown Ale.
I brewed 4 brown ales last year and wasn’t really happy with any of them, although the final one scored a first in the State competition. It did less well in the National round but I have some potentially useful comments from the judges so that it’s the recipe I intend to take forward and develop, incorporating those learned observations.
I was fairly happy with it but it has a touch too much roast character. I also used Northern Brewer in it and I think it’s not the best choice.
I can get Sam Smith’s Nut Brown Ale here and I like it much better than Newcastle. The other British Brown I sometimes see is Hobgoblin. Have not tried it for a long time.
On yeast, I’m currently using WLP007 and very happy with it so far.
Thanks for the videos. I always look out for these each week.
Another great video. I am a fan of brown beers as well.i want to see some of John's brews. Your house beer of choice is a Vienna lager right?? Show some brewing footage
I'll pass along the request. And we're working on more brewing footage. Cheers! -Mike
Really... Couldn't be more timely! I too love a good brown ale. I just need my first in quite a while--i admittedly geta but intimidated by the sheer number of grain options! I just brewed one on Monday with some crystal 45, and carfa II (non-special) 'cause that's what I had on hand. What do you think of S-04 for a brown?
For what you’re going for I’d suggest replacing the Flaked Barley and Special Malt with a 40L or 60L Crystal to add the caramel you’re looking for, and replace the Pale Chocolate with Regular Chocolate at 3/4 of the volume.
That sounds pretty much on the money...
But pale chocolate is so nice
@@grahamhawes7089 It is, but to get the color Mike is going for he’d have to add more. Then the pale chocolate flavor might get a little too intense for the style. A small % of regular chocolate will adjust the color and dry out the finish without making the beer too chocolaty and Porter-like.
Just add a bit more of the dark chocolate roast 450-650 late in the mash for color. Otherwise it sounds great.
@@jshall14 true enough! I like Carafa Special 3 for color tweaks.
Geordie here (from the original home of Newcastle Brown Ale), the recipe has been messed with a ton over the years. It's unrecognisable from the original (which was about 6.5% abv). I've experimented over the years and found my favourite is using marris, Special B malt for the crystal addition, a small amount of black malt for colour and Dennys favourite (WYeast 1450). With 20ibu of EKG.
Thanks for that reference point. Cheers! -Mike
Agree, Newcastle Brown is hiddeous now. Any UK pubs we went into back in the day that had poor beers on draught always had Newcy Brown in the firdge and it was always a good beer but it's been ruined.
Hideous is a good way to describe it. Cheers! -Mike
Try a Hobgoblin if you get a chance. Wonderful brown ale.
Been wanting to try this for years. Unfortunately beer selection is limited in the great state of Utah
Looks like a great brew, maybe just a bit more of dark chocolate near the end of the mash for added color. Otherwise sounds great!
Hey I have a wacky suggestion! I have only been brewing for a few years, but would it be ridiculous to just add the smallest amount of midnight wheat to get that color a bit darker? I dont think it affects the beer at all at such small amounts but it may get you the color you are looking for!
That's normally exactly what I'd do on a rebrew for color if I am totally happy with everything else. Cheers! -Mike
Can you post the recipe in the description? Thanks!
What IBU did you get from this recipe? Thanks!
Can you please advise how we can purchase Cellar Science yeasts for beer? Their website has no menu options for purchasing their products.
I get mine from my local homebrew shop. There are hundreds of shops that sell it retail on line. Ask you local shop to try and pick some up. Cheers! -Mike
The written receipe please in the notes ?
I agree about the Newkie Brown. It's nowhere near the same it was some 30 years ago. Today it tastes bland like a Heineken with some caramel color in it.
Lagunitas makes it in the US now. They changed the recipe for the US a couple years ago.
That's why we brew our own! =)
@@jshall14 It's terrible in the UK too. I go to Samuel Smiths if I want a decent brown ale.
For some reason I have a hankerin for a Tucher Dunkles. Not sure. Great looking beer, dudes. Punctuation matters.
we beat germany in the war, munich style malts are fine.