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I'm looking for advice on a Northern English Brown Ale recipe that's easy and sticks with Malt extracts as opposed to mash. I need a very smooth, very unaggressive recipe here that could please quite a bit of non beer drinkers. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I've got 7 weeks for the brew.

Thanks.
Forum: Homebrew Recipes | Author: lambertjp
Posted: February 4, 2009, 9:32 am

11.5 lbs. American 2-row malt
½ lb. 20L Crystal malt
½ lb honey malt

1 lb. clover honey
0.5 oz. Willamette (6.6 AA) 60 min.
0.5 oz. Willamette (6.6 AA) 30 min.
Wyeast 1272 (American Ale II)
Forum: Homebrewing | Author: inspectord
Posted: February 4, 2009, 3:37 pm

16 lbs. - 2 Row Pale Malt
3 lb. - Munich Malt
1 lb. - Caramel/Crystal Malt (120L)
1/4 lb. - Chocolate Malt

Hop Schedule
2.25 oz. - Columbus - 60 min.
1.5 oz. - Centennial - 25 min.
1 oz. - Centennial - 10 min.

Yeast
White Labs American Ale Yeast (WLP001) - 1800 ml starter

Mash/Sparge/Boil
Mash at 152° for 60 min.
Sparge as usual
Cool and ferment at 65° to 68°

this is a rouge barleywine recipe slightly moldified. It has been 3 months since the brew and i am going to cold crash for one month and leave in bottels for one month. I tasted it just before cold crashing which started today and it is very good but still very hoppy. I know thats what aging is all about letting some of the iso-alpha-acids lose their kick so to speak but it was like a imperial IPA it was so hoppy. We will see after a month of cold crashing at about 40.
Forum: Homebrewing | Author: belgiumtripel
Posted: February 5, 2009, 3:09 pm

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Forum: The Pub | Author: webby
Posted: February 9, 2009, 10:10 am

Here's the recipe and then I'll go into the problem I had.
I used beer tools and estimated a 60% efficiency.

4.25 gallons

6 pds two row
.5 pd 20 L crystal
.65 pd victory

1 oz glacier hop pellets 6% AA 50 min
1 oz Liberty hop pellets 3.4 % AA 2 min

2 packets muntons premium gold yeast

OG: was suppose to be 1.034
Actual OG: 1.022

I heated up 2 gallons of water to 165 degrees. Added grains, stirred, and put lid on pot. Let sit for 75 min. temp never got below 155 degrees.

I heated up 1.5 gallons of water to 185 degrees, sparged grains with that. I used a 3 gallon boild and toped off to 4.25 with cold water.

everything went fine until I measured the OG. So seeing it was low I went back to beer tools and figured my efficiency was only 40% and to get OG where I wanted it I boiled 3/4 pd of cane sugar and added it to carboy. retook OG and it was 1.032, close enough. So my question is why was my efficiency so low? I had the grains crushed at the brew supply where I bought them. I stirred the grains to make sure all got good and wet, no lumps, before timing the mash for 75 minutes. Using stovetop I could only boil 3 gallons until I get another pot. Suggestions?

And yes it is based on brewchez recipe he posted last week for a simple english bitter. I just used hops I had.

DC
Forum: Homebrewing | Author: deafcone
Posted: February 9, 2009, 5:50 pm

6.5 lbs of amber extract syrup
8 oz of crystal 120
3/4 oz of northern brewer (bittering)
1/2 oz of centenial (flavoring)
1/4 oz of czech saaz (aroma)
and safale us 05 yeast.
3/4 cup of priming sugar

My OG was 1.044 and FG 1.010.

10 day in primary. The bottled.
Forum: Homebrew Recipes | Author: TwinBrewer
Posted: February 10, 2009, 7:22 pm

Any way...I have A LOT of questions about everything involved in brewing beer such as the vocabulary, tools, differences between tools and ingredients, what certain ingredients will do to your taste, how to distinguish tastes, etc......

For starters...is there any kind of way I should make my beer(such as extract, all grain, etc...) as a first timer, and if so, what specific flavor should I aim for...
And also...are beers made seasonally, and if so, what kind of beers are made during which seasons?

Another reason I am intrigued in this is because I would like to pursue a career in brewing beer such as a brewery or other things related to that.

Thank you sincerely for taking your time to read this and thank you ahead of time for any answer you may present to me
Forum: Homebrewing | Author: Young Brewer
Posted: February 10, 2009, 7:57 pm