This gets us 18 SRM, still within style guidelines (per BrewCipher):Ġ.37 pounds (3%) Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L Personally that's too much crystal malt for me (and probably too much brown malt, though I admit I've never used it), but it does appear that the 5-6% range is what makes sense for the chocolate.Ġ.36 pounds (3%) Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60LĠ.5 pounds (4%) Simpsons Golden Naked Oats (represented in BrewCipher by Caramel 10) So while I was initially leaning toward a fairly low percentage of pale chocolate malt, I'm now thinking I want at least 5% so that we can use only a modest amount of C60.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah, BrewCipher puts that around 20 SRM (at the 8% level for brown malt and GNOs).
That's all the more true if we don't want a full half pound of C60, which I kind of don't. I'm not saying we need 5% of pale chocolate, I'm just saying we might want to get the color from somewhere. ~0.5 pounds (4%) Golden Naked Oats (represented by Caramel 10)Īt that point you've got an SRM of 19, which is within range for the style according to BrewCipher. ~0.5 pounds (4%) Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L But if you bump pale chocolate to 5% you're within range. Maybe a tad high.Īnyway that recipe produces a predicted 18 SRM wort, which BrewCipher identifies as "low" for the style. I basically made up the amount of GNOs but it seems reasonable to me. I put the recipe into BrewCipher 5.1 and with a 4-4-4 breakdown I came up with this malt bill for a 5-gallon batch at 70% efficiency (bear in mind we've already voted for a 1.056 OG/1.013 FG beer):Ġ.5 pounds (4%) Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60LĠ.5 pounds (4%) Golden Naked Oats (represented by Caramel 10 because GNOs aren't included)
The Averagely Perfect American Brown Ale Recipe so far.Ĭlick to expand. Votes from anyone trolling the thread are null and void. Let's keep the threads themselves on topic to the question at hand and not about how you would have asked the question differently. If you have issues with or suggestions for methodologies used in this project, please send them via private message. In other words, build your ideal proportions for all the grains in your head before voting in this poll. I also recommend thinking ahead about how much room you'll need in the grist for the other grains. I recommend you think about this in terms of not only your personal preferences, but also in the context of the ABV and Final Gravity (and thus the attenuation) already selected, the other grains (%s TBD) already selected, and the yeast strain already selected. It may or may not be as simple as a plurality would indicate. When this poll is done, I will look at the data a few different ways to determine the central tendency. If you are not a believer in specifying fermentables by percentages (due to non-proportional flavor/color extraction for different grains at various mash efficiencies), the assumed mash efficiency for the grains in the final recipe will be 70%, if that helps. The percentage being selected here is by weight, not by gravity "points" contribution. That will leave the rest of the bill for the Golden Promise. After that, we'll determine the percentage of Brown Malt (~60L). After the Pale Chocolate Malt, we'll determine the overall percentage of the two crystal malts (American Crystal 60 and Golden Naked Oats) together, then the split between the two. This poll will determine the percentage of Pale Chocolate Malt (English, ~220L) in the grain bill. Poll #13 <- determined that the yeast strain will be Wyeast 1469.