Beer Style: Brown Ale
Beppy’s Brown
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis simple brown ale recipe illustrates the differences between brewing all-grain batches and extract batches of beer with extract replacing one malt in the ingredients and different techniques to get your wort in the boil kettle.
Denny’s American Mild (Final Version, #8)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyDenny 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 British mild (malt character, low integrated hop flavor, body, 1.035 OG, under 4% alcohol) but with only American ingredients.
It’s My Barrel, and I’ll Rye If I Want To
FREEIt’s My Barrel, and I’ll Rye If I Want To (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.064 FG = 1.016IBU = 29 SRM = 27 ABV = 6.4% Ingredients:3.25 lbs. (1.5 kg) Maris
Tonsmeire’s Acorn Oud Bruin
Digital and Plus Members OnlyI brewed a beer with compatible flavors for the acorns: A rye sour somewhere between English old ale and Flemish oud bruin.
Bob’s Your Uncle
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA southern English-styled brown ale recipe
American Brown Ale
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe American brown ale was a style that arose through two distinct channels, the craft beer world and the homebrew world. Here is Gordon Strong’s take on the American brown ale that arose via the craft beer world, such as Pete’s Wicked Ale.
American Brown Ale
Digital and Plus Members OnlyLast May, I was in Argentina to judge and speak at the South Beer Cup, sort of the Great American Beer Festival of South America. I spent several hours traveling with Pete Slosberg, one of the heroes of the early days of the modern American craft beer movement who was also there to judge, and
The Mitten Brewing Company: Label Up clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyCo-owner Chris Andrus wants to make it clear that “this is NOT a novelty beer.” Label Up is “first and foremost a brown ale.” The maple and pecan flavors are not intended to create an overly-sweet palate and should not prevent anyone from enjoying multiple pints of it!
Surly Brewing Co.’s Bender clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyBender is a category-bending American brown ale brewed with oat crystal malt. It is described by the brewery as “crisp and lightly hoppy, complemented by the velvety sleekness oats deliver. Belgian and British malts usher in cascades of cocoa, bitter coffee, caramel, and hints of vanilla and cream.”
Nøgne Ø – Det Kompromissløse Bryggeri A/S: Imperial Brown Ale clone
FREE“A dark brown English ale in which classic English malts meet the spicy hoppiness of the New World.”
Free Will Brewing Company: C.O.B. (Coffee Oatmeal Brown) with Coconut & Chocolate clone
FREEAccording to Free Will Brewing Co., this is a “Coffee, oatmeal, brown ale. Incredibly rich undertones of brown sugar, caramel and graham cracker. One pound of Speakeasy coffee per brewery barrel added post fermentation creates a prominent nose and taste of coffee.” This clone recipe includes a variation on the base C.O.B. beer with the addition of coconut and cocao.
Butte Creek Brewing’s Winter Ale clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis beer is now retired. The Butte Creek Brewing Co.’s annual winter ale was technically an American Brown Ale with Fuggle hops providing a balance to the malty backbone.