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Brown Ale Family
As the name suggests, Brown Ale is brown in color with malty and chocolate flavor profiles. These beers include American and English brown ale.
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Logboat Brewing Co.’s Mamoot clone
This mild brown ale became a day-one staple, and one of four beers in the Logboat’s core lineup when it opened in 2014.
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Bakery Loop Brown Ale
Adding rye bread to this base brown ale creates a soft, bread-like malt flavor and enhances the brown ale’s caramel and chocolate notes by
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Gordon Strong’s British Brown Ale
The base malt is a mix of Maris Otter and Golden Promise. Torrified wheat provides some of the character flavor and a little body. Mid-range
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British Brown Ale
British brown ale is open to a wide range of interpretations, however one constant is that the style is all about drinkability and balance.
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Shades of Brown
Brown ale is often broken into two categories — English brown and American brown. However, there are even more variations to this flexible
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Neon Raptor’s Barnum Brown Clone
This is a good example of the hoppy version of the American brown ale style you tend to see from British craft brewers.
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Avery Brewing Co.’s Ellie’s Brown Ale Clone
Avery Brewing Co. Ellie’s Brown Ale is quite restrained in its color but a big addition of chocolate malt ensures a nutty, toffee, and lig
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Thornbridge Brewery & Bundobust Brewery’s Nut Brown Ale Clone
Thornbridge and Bundobust’s collaborative Nut Brown Ale is an homage to the classic Sam Smith’s Nut Brown.
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Cigar City Brewing Co.’s Maduro Brown Ale Clone
This is far darker than the BJCP guidelines for an English brown and pushes past the upper limit in terms of ABV.
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Beppy’s Brown
This simple brown ale recipe illustrates the differences between brewing all-grain batches and extract batches of beer with extract replacin
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Newcastle Brun Ale
Intrigued by a local landmark remembering a group of priests who fled to England and set up a brewpub during the French Revolution, a homebr
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Denny’s American Mild (Final Version, #8)
Denny has been working on a recipe for an American mild ale for several years. The objective was to make a beer with the qualities of a Brit