Brownie Brown Ale

Source: Chris Benham
Recipe added: 10/30/01
Email: benhamtroll@home.com

Great, low grav brown ale. Very low hop aroma and bitterness, but good mouthfeel. Drinkable after a week. Very good after two.

Specifics

Recipe type: Extract
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Starting Gravity: 1.037
Finishing Gravity: 1.013
Time in Boil: 60 min
Primary Fermentation: 7 days

Ingredients:

5 lbs Light LME
1 lb clover honey
1/2 lb 40-L Crystal malt
1/4 lb black patent
1 oz Saaz (60 min)
1/2 oz Hallertauer (30 min)
1 oz Hallertauer (5 min)
Wyeast 1099 (whitbread)

Procedure:

Steep specialty grains at 150F for about 30 min. (I used 3 qts water) Add to boil pot and top off to 3 gallons. Bring to boil, add LME and honey. Boil for 60 minutes, adding hops at appropriate time. Strain wort into ferment bucket, top off with water to make +/- 5 gal. Pitch yeast when cool. Keep in primary until ferment stops (about 7 days). Prime with 3/4 cup corn sugar and bottle.

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