
Mo Better Brown
Northern English Brown Ale • Extract • 5 gal
Improved a previous recipe to make a better brown ale.
April 7, 2012 pm 08:58pm
Ingredients (Extract, 5 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
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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 | |||
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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 | ![]() |