Beer Style: Brown Ale
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.
Clifford Brown Ale
Like the best jazz from the hard bop era, this Brown Ale is complex but not boggling.
TableRock Nut Brown Ale clone
A homebrew recipe for this commercial Brown Ale out of Idaho.
Big Sky Brewing Company: Moose Drool clone
This is the beer that put Montana craft beer on the map shortly after Big Sky opened in 1995. Moose Drool has taken home many medals for its drinkability, with subtle coffee and cocoa notes balanced with a pleasant bitterness.
Cherokee Nation (American Indian Brown Ale)
According to recipe author Gordon Strong, “This is a brown IPA, which is my normal IPA recipe with the addition of some darker malts and using brown sugar instead of honey. It uses late hopping for bitterness and adds the darker malts during the sparge, both of which should cut down on the clash of malt/hops that can happen in hoppy darker beers.”
Northern English Brown Ale
The nuts and bolts of brewing a nutty, biscuity Northern English brown ale, a balanced British beer.
Cherry Brown Ale
A fun-to-brew Brown Ale with some home toasted malts and a lot of cherries!
Brown Ale
Back in the day, every ale was a brown ale. It wasn’t until fairly recently, however, that anybody labelled their beer “brown ale.” Learn the differences between, and how to brew, both English sub-styles of this beer.
