Tag: Brown Ale

  • Grain Bill 6lb 2-Row Malt 5lb Chocolate Malt 2lb Avangard Munich Malt 2lb Crystal 120L 2lb Crystal 60L 1lb Crystal 20L 1lb Brown Malt 60 Min 2.0oz 3 HBU Packs (60min) 15 Min 1oz Tettnang (15min) 4oz Maltodextrin (15min) Whirlfloc (15min) Fermentation WLP001 Yeast x 2 WL ClarityFerm Kegging/Racking Hazelnut Extract This essentially was my…

  • Ok so admittedly I have been doing a piss poor job of brewing in the last few months. I attribute most of this to the ex and more of this to i had a huge stockpile from 2012 that had to be drank… Drink we did! Happy New Year to everyone! I started off the…

  • Sour Saturdays

    Saturday I had another great opportunity to sample some sour beers! I decided to just randomly pick one and what a random pick it was. I ended up picking a sour brown ale by name of “Duchesse De Bourgogne”. It had a really good sour start and crisp feeling to it this all followed by…

  • I was thrilled to find that it was time to bottle… but shocked to realize my negligence had made me neglect taking some tests of the final gravity *Gasp*. Alas it was not all that bad. What should have been an initial gravity in the ballpark of 1.052 and a final gravity of 1.015 resulted in a…

  • Easter Treat!

    Happy Easter to everyone! I celebrated the Resurrection of the lamb of God by eating lamb (ironic… I know). That and with a cool glass of my AHS Anniversary English Brown Ale.  This was a trial test after only about 1-2 weeks in the bottle. Its crisp, malty, a tad on the sweet side (hoping it mellows…

  • Brew a batch of English Brown! Using another great recipe kit from AHS which is an anniversary Hybrid English Brown ale. Browns are my favorites for sure so this was a special treat (the smell was amazing!).