Brown ale

[spanspoon]

I've just had my order of grains delivered from Worcester hop shop (smooth transaction as always)! I've just realised I've got a day to myself tomorrow and looking at brewing a brown ale. I've got 500g of brown malt, crystal, chocolate and black grains. Not sure of hpps.
Any ideas for a simple tasty brown ale would be welcome!

[seymour]

Dumb questions, maybe, but: I assume you also have lots of pale base malt? and is that 500 g each of specialty malts?

[spanspoon]

Yeah I have 25kg of base malt plus around 500g to 1kg of speciality malts

[spanspoon]

I'll be knocking up a standard 23 litre batch

[sbond10]

From greg hughes book

Pale malt 4.8kg
crystal 250g
chocolate 100g
Mash at 65

Admiral 16g at start (70 min boil)
challenger 16g at end

Or

Pale malt 3.5kg
dark crystal 300 g
chocolate 100g
terrified wheat 100g
black malt 55g
Mash at 65

Then
fuggle s 24g at start (70 minutes)
Fuggle 24g last ten minutes

Again credit to greg hughes ( excellent book currently on offer on amazon)

[ArmChair]

Brown Ale

Grain Bill:

3500g Maris Otter 74%
500g, Crystal Malt 10.5%
500g, Brown 10.5%
150g, Oats 3.5%
80g, Chocolate Malt 1.5%

Hops:
40g Fuggles 4.35% 60min
30g WGV Goldings 5.52% 15min
1tsp irish moss 15min

Mash at 67°C for 120 minutes
Boil for 60 min. Add a pinch of gypsum at the beginning..
Brewed to 23 litres

Yeast:
Nottingham Ale Yeast
SG: 1050

[seymour]

Here you go, a bunch of 'em:

Brown Ale Grainbills For Your Consideration

Good stuff, Bonders and ArmChair. I added them to the list.

[sbond10]

As said there not mine just borrowed