Big Bear Chase Me Brown Ale
Made for our trip to Morehouse lake this summer, this was meant to be a fairly dry brown ale good for the summer. Turned out alright, but didn’t attenuate quite as highly as I wanted.
11C. Northern English Brown. OG: 1.058. FG: 1.019. IBU: 30. ABV: 5.1%
Notes:
- 6/16/10: 1.5 Qt. Starter, used Wyeast 1028, London Ale, as I couldn’t find any WLP013
- 6/20/10: Brewed
- 4 Qt. Mash, strike at 161 degrees
- 2 Qt. Sparge at 180 degrees
- pitched at 76 degrees
- screwed up and dropped the stopper in the carboy :(
- Gravity @ 3 gal: 1.096, @5 gal, OG: 1.058
- 6/26/10: Racked to secondary, gravity: 1.019
- 7/13/10: Bottled, FG: 1.019, ABV: 5.1%
Recipe:
| Big Bear Chase Me Brown | ||||||||
| BJCP Style | 11C. Northern English Brown | Notes | ||||||
| OG | 1.059 | 1 week primary, 2 week secondary, 4 week bottle | ||||||
| est. FG | 1.015 | |||||||
| est. ABV | 5.9% | |||||||
| Boil Vol. | 3 | gal | ||||||
| Fermentation Vol. | 5 | gal | ||||||
| Yeast | ||||||||
| White Labs London Ale Yeast (WLP013) (or WLP005) | ||||||||
| Req. cells | 222.91875 | billion | ||||||
| Starter (L) | 2 | |||||||
| Malt | ||||||||
| oz. | Weight (lbs) | % Grain Bill | before Hops (lbs) | Type | ° Lovibond | PPG | Points | Boil Points |
| 6.6 | 73% | 3.3 | UK Extra Light LME | 4 | 36 | 47.52 | 39.60 | |
| 0.5 | 6% | 0 | Gold DME | 4 | 40 | 4.00 | 0.00 | |
| 13 | 0.8125 | 9% | 0.81 | Briess Special Roast | 50 | 21 | 3.41 | 5.69 |
| 7 | 0.4375 | 5% | 0.44 | Crystal 40 | 40 | 22 | 1.93 | 3.21 |
| 7 | 0.4375 | 5% | 0.44 | Victory | 28 | 21 | 1.84 | 3.06 |
| 4 | 0.25 | 3% | 0.25 | Pale Chocolate | 207 | 15 | 0.75 | 1.25 |
| Total | 59.445 | 52.81 | ||||||
| BG | 1.053 | |||||||
| Adjuncts | ||||||||
| Hops | ||||||||
| Weight (oz.) | Type | AA | Time (min.) | AAU | Util. | IBU | ||
| 1.75 | EK Goldings | 4.5% | 60 | 7.88 | 0.23 | 27.29 | ||
| 0.75 | EK Goldings | 4.5% | 5 | 3.38 | 0.05 | 2.33 | ||
| Total | 29.62 | |||||||
| Other | ||||||||
| Irish Moss | 1 tsp. | boil 15 minutes | ||||||