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Offline Ian Grant

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Nut Brown
« on: January 01, 2013, 01:23:18 PM »
Nut Brown Ale
11-C Northern English Brown Ale

Size: 11 gal
Efficiency: 75.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 166.74 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.050 (1.040 - 1.052)
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 (1.008 - 1.013)
Color: 15.99 (12.0 - 22.0)
Alcohol: 4.93% (4.2% - 5.4%)
Bitterness: 24.3 (20.0 - 30.0)

Ingredients:
16 lb Maris Otter Malt
1 lb Crystal Malt 60°L
1 lb Victory® Malt
1 lb Munich Malt
7.0 oz Chocolate Malt
1.5 lb Oats Flaked
2.0 oz Fuggle (4.8%) - added during boil, boiled 60 m
2 oz East Kent Goldings (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 15 m
1.0 ea Danstar  Nottingham

Schedule:
Ambient Air: 70.0 °F
Source Water: 60.0 °F
Elevation: 0.0 m

00:43:51 Mash - Liquor: 6.54 gal; Strike: 164.59 °F; Target: 152.0 °F
01:03:51 Untitled Step - batch sparge: 7.39 gal sparge @ 185.0 °F, 20 m; Total Runoff: 11.76 gal

Results generated by BeerTools Pro 1.5.20

Splitting this into 2 beers.  The second beer is going to be a sour brown fermented first with S05 for a week then the Wyeast roeselare blend in secondary.

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Re: Nut Brown
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2013, 03:43:28 PM »
Gonna use the victory in my next brown as well -curious to know if it makes a difference...
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Re: Nut Brown
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2013, 03:52:21 PM »
I love Victory (Bisquit/Amber?). Gives a great taste to bitters.

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Re: Nut Brown
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2013, 04:56:19 PM »
Yeah to me amber is pretty much the defining grain for a bitter... tried one without it last and it just wasn't right.
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Re: Nut Brown
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2013, 04:18:11 PM »
How'd this turn out Ian?
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Re: Nut Brown
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2013, 04:47:27 AM »
Probably gonna keg it next week.  Ill taste it then and I hope it has the bready aftertaste I'm looking for.

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Re: Nut Brown
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2013, 08:15:15 AM »
I'll be interested as this looks a lot like my new Fat Squirrel clone 2.0. You have some Crystal in there though, which might be interesting...
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