Don't try this at home!

Brown Ale.

I wanted to make something with brown malt...something historic-ish. Something like those porters were actually drinking way back when.

The guy from Thomas Fawcett cautioned me that a couple pounds of brown malt would be plenty.  You'd think a guy would listen to the maltster, wouldn't you?






Mash @ 152

• 1 T Gypsum
• 3 # Brown Malt
• 3 # Munich
• 3 # 6 row (to convert the brown)
• 1 # aromatic
• 1 # 40L crystal

Boil

• 0.5 oz Calypso - first wort
• 0.5 oz Calypso - 15 min

Cool and pitch 1 sachet hydrated SafAle S-04
OG 1.070
FG 1.015

Now THIS is a damned serious beer. It's like a rip-your-face-off porter / stout thing...

You know how a triple IPA slams you with hops? Well this is the same concept but slamming you with malt. Brown malt.