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09-08-2023, 09:12
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Now here’s a rarity: a real Brown Ale recipe. Why a rarity? Because most brewers were simply tweaking their Dark Mild to create a Brown Ale. Meaning they don’t show up in brewing records.
The recipe is a fairly typical mix of base malt, flaked maize and sugar. With the latter providing most of the colour. There’s also some crystal malt which will also be doing some of the lifting with regards to the colour. The base malt was 100% mild malt. Which is no surprise.
The brewing record is rather vague as to the type of sugar being used, describing it simply as “invert”. I’ve guessed No. 3, but it could equally have been No. 1 or No. 3. Feel free to use another invert of your choice.
A fairly standard underlet mashing scheme was used.
action
barrels
strike heat
initial heat
mins stood
mash
20
147º F
140º F
20
underlet
4
198º F
149º F
100
sparge 1
20
168º F
sparge 2
6
164º F
sparge 3
22
158º F
Into the copper went a single type of English hops from the 1968 crop.
1969 Elgood Brown Ale
mild malt
4.00 lb
64.00%
crystal malt 60 L
0.75 lb
12.00%
flaked maize
0.75 lb
12.00%
No. 3 invert
0.50 lb
8.00%
caramel 500 SRM
0.25 lb
4.00%
Fuggles 95 min
0.33 oz
Fuggles 60 min
0.33 oz
Fuggles 30 min
0.33 oz
OG
1030
FG
1007
ABV
3.04
Apparent attenuation
76.67%
IBU
13
SRM
16
Mash at
149º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
95 minutes
pitching temp
60.5º F
Yeast
WLP007 Dry English Ale
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Now here’s a rarity: a real Brown Ale recipe. Why a rarity? Because most brewers were simply tweaking their Dark Mild to create a Brown Ale. Meaning they don’t show up in brewing records.
The recipe is a fairly typical mix of base malt, flaked maize and sugar. With the latter providing most of the colour. There’s also some crystal malt which will also be doing some of the lifting with regards to the colour. The base malt was 100% mild malt. Which is no surprise.
The brewing record is rather vague as to the type of sugar being used, describing it simply as “invert”. I’ve guessed No. 3, but it could equally have been No. 1 or No. 3. Feel free to use another invert of your choice.
A fairly standard underlet mashing scheme was used.
action
barrels
strike heat
initial heat
mins stood
mash
20
147º F
140º F
20
underlet
4
198º F
149º F
100
sparge 1
20
168º F
sparge 2
6
164º F
sparge 3
22
158º F
Into the copper went a single type of English hops from the 1968 crop.
1969 Elgood Brown Ale
mild malt
4.00 lb
64.00%
crystal malt 60 L
0.75 lb
12.00%
flaked maize
0.75 lb
12.00%
No. 3 invert
0.50 lb
8.00%
caramel 500 SRM
0.25 lb
4.00%
Fuggles 95 min
0.33 oz
Fuggles 60 min
0.33 oz
Fuggles 30 min
0.33 oz
OG
1030
FG
1007
ABV
3.04
Apparent attenuation
76.67%
IBU
13
SRM
16
Mash at
149º F
Sparge at
168º F
Boil time
95 minutes
pitching temp
60.5º F
Yeast
WLP007 Dry English Ale
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/08/lets-brew-wednesday-1969-elgood-brown.html)