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Mo Better Brown

Mo Better Brown

Northern English Brown Ale • Extract • 5 gal

sweazel

Improved a previous recipe to make a better brown ale.

April 7, 2012 pm 08:58pm

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Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • .33 lbs Chocolate Malt; Breiss

    Chocolate Malt; Breiss

    Rich roasted coffee flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Chocolate Malt is used in all beer styles for color adjustment with minor or no flavor contribution. • Use 1-10% for desired color in Porter and Stout Beer. • The chocolate flavor is very complementary when used in higher percentages in Brown Ales, Porters, Stouts and other Dark Beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • .25 lbs Crystal Malt 120°L

    Crystal Malt 120°L

    Pronounced caramel flavor and a red color. For stouts, porters and black beers.

  • .25 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils

    Belgian Cara-Pils

    Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.

  • .25 lbs Victory® Malt; Briess

    Victory® Malt; Briess

    Biscuity, baking bread, nutty flavors. Characteristics & Applications: • With an aroma of baking bread, Victory® Malt is great in Nut Brown Ales and other dark beers. • Special processing develops the biscuity, baking bread, nutty flavors that are distinctive in Victory® Malt. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 3.3 lbs Liquid Amber; Muntons

    Liquid Amber; Muntons

    Made from a blend of pale and crystal malts this product provides the ideal building block for Ale and Bitter style beers.

  • 2.5 lbs CBW® Golden Light Liquid (Malt Extract); Briess

    CBW® Golden Light Liquid (Malt Extract); Briess

    Malty flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • CBW® Golden Light is a liquid, 100% pure malted barley extract made from 100% Briess malt and water. • CBW® Golden Light can be used in the production of all extract beer styles and to adjust the color, flavor and gravity of all grain beers. • Advantages of using extract in a brewhouse include: o Save time. o Increase capacity/boost productivity. o Extends the brew size by adding malt solids to the wort. o Boost gravity. o Adjust color. o Improve body and head retention. • Briess Malt & Ingredients Company is the only vertically integrated malting company in North America. That means we make our pure malt extracts from our own malt so you are assured of receiving only the fullest flavored, freshest, pure malt extracts for top brewhouse performance. Applications: • All styles of extract beer, and to adjust the color, flavor and gravity of all grain beers.

  • .4 oz Nugget - 13.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Nugget

    This is very bitter and often used in medium to dark ales and lagers. Aroma is quite heavy and herbal.

  • .5 oz Brambling Cross - 6.0 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Brambling Cross

    Grandparent of Saxon and Viking, they have a unique toasty, buttery, slighly resiny aroma with some woody notes.

  • 1 oz East Kent Goldings - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • 1 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - Added at 15 min (omitted from calculations)

    Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss)

    Enhanced Irish Moss in convenient tablet form

  • White Labs WLP002 English Ale

    White Labs WLP002 English Ale

    A classic ESB strain from one of England's largest independent breweries. This yeast is best suited for English style ales including milds, bitters, porters, and English style stouts. This yeast will leave a beer very clear, and will leave some residual s

Notes

Steep grains for 45 minutes between 154 - 164 degrees. Add Gold extract at 45 minutes and Amber extract at 25 minutes. Pitched yeast in at 74 degrees. OG at 1.044. Placed into secondary after 10 Days. Gravity at 1.015. 3.9% alcohol.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 11 - English Brown Ale

Subcategory: C - Northern English Brown Ale

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.047 1.040 - 1.052
Terminal Gravity: 1.010 1.008 - 1.013
Color: 18.7 SRM 12 - 22
Alcohol: 4.7% ABV 4.2% - 5.4%
Bitterness: 25.4 IBU 20 - 30

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