Recipes
Beer-style: Brown Ale
Dogfish Head Craft Brewing: Indian Brown clone
This dark IPA is available year-round and is dry hopped similarly to Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute and 90 Minute IPAs. It is roasty, with a mild hop bitterness.
Newcastle Brown Ale clone
Newcastle Brown Ale is actually a blend of two beers. Brewers blend a strong, dark ale that has been aged and a smaller, younger amber ale. As a consequence, this average-strength brown ale shows some plum and raisin characteristics more frequently encountered in an old ale. You can try to make the blended version and those instructions can be found in the May/June 2006 issue. Here is a more simplified single batch version.
Northern English Brown
Jamil Zainasheff provides readers with a recipe for a Northern English-styled brown ale. Northern brown ales tend to be a bit less roasty, drier, and a bit more hop character.
Lost Coast Brewing Co.’s Downtown Brown Ale clone
An English-style brown ale with toffee and bread notes.
Pete’s Wicked Ale clone
One of the early superstars in the US craft beer scene, Pete’s Brewing Co. was founded in 1986 and was eventually sold to Gambrinius in 1998. This beer played a large role in putting American Brown Ales on the beer map. Pete’s Wicked Ale was discontinued being brewed in 2011.
Madison Brewing Co.’s BURNT clone
Toasted hemp seeds, infused into this American brown ale, provides a unique nutty character. The hops balance the malt characters nicely. Recipe provided by the head brewer at this Bennington, Vermont based brewpub.
Good Olde Brown Ale
A session brown ale provided by The Brew Haus out of Durango, Colorado. The recipe has an optional ginger addition for those ginger lovers out there
Wychwood Brewing Company: Hobgoblin Dark Ale clone
This ruby-colored English ale delivers a delicious chocolate toffee malt flavor, balanced with rounded moderate bitterness and an overall fruity, mischievous character.
Real Ale Brewing Co’s Brewhouse Brown Ale clone
One of the original three recipes from Real Ale’s offerings when they firest started brewing Blanco, Texas in 1996. According to their website, “Simple and classic. This well-balanced ale features flavors of chocolate and toffee with a smooth, dry finish.”
Texas Imperial Brown Ale
American Brown ale was once referred to as Texas Brown ale, since the Dixie Cup was the first competition to recognize the style. In honor of that, David Cato brewed his Texas Imperial Brown Ale, which is more or less a brown I.P.A. It’s a richly flavored beer and very hoppy, appropriately enough with Amarillo® hops. This beer, by David Cato took 2nd place in the Imperial Beer category.
House of Homebrew Brown Ale
Brown ale is a very old style of beer that was brewed long before it was formally named. Many of the earliest of English ales were what we would today define as a brown ale. Today the BJCP defines a brown ale as follows: “A beer with an OG falling between 1.060 and 1.040, IBU between 24 and 30 and SRM between 15 and 35.”
– Bill Wiedmer, House of Homebrew
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Otter Creek Mud Bock Spring Ale clone
A Bock that has a nutty, chocolate malt flavor with mild hopping.
