What style would you consider this beer?

Here's a recipe I've brewed a couple time. Enjoyed by everyone from the wife to the neighbors. However, I personally feel it's a style jumper of sorts:

80.5% Pale 2 Row
6.6% Chocolate Malt 350SRM
6.4% Munich 10L
4.2% C-120
2.3% Honey Malt


Around 30 IBU's total, Northern Brewer and Willamette, but sometimes Sterling.

US05/1056 yeast. Around 154 Mash, and usually within 1.058 OG or so.

What style would you consider this grist..

 

Well.. atleast I'm not far off.

It's my brown ale base. It's a pretty dark beer, been thinking about knocking back the chocolate malt a bit myself, but it's just so damn good.

I feel like it's bordering on Porter-ish... But then when it's bordering on a porter, it's bordering on a stout.. I'm of the idea that without a decent dose of roasted barley, it's not a stout, so I do have my limitations!

 

Thats what I consider it as well, it's just pretty dark for a brown, while most have a nice reddish hue, mine borders on darker brown, almost black.

 

Well, that recipe is in a bourbon barrel at the moment, so give it a couple more weeks, and we can judge it.

 

It adds.. well, a honey flavor. Maybe in the small amount I have in there, it lends a smooth caramel like sweetness to the beer.

Honey malt is good.. in moderation.

 

I have only brewed my brown recipe straight as is. I sometimes change the hops, but mostly the same each time. Damn good beer, my wife and neighbor love it.

I took a sample from the barrel last night, it's getting where I want it, but still needs some time. Was pretty delicious and had a great nose.

 

Yes, this beer is in my balcones barrel. It's the second run through it, but it's been rinsed a couple times inbetween beers. I rinse with boiling water, twice. Once when I got it, then swished a little bourbon in there for a couple days. The barrel soaked up most of it and I dumped the remaining bourbon.

I did swish a little bourbon in the barrel for a day on the second run, for this brown. I had to soak the barrel a bit, the head on one side dried out and had a slight leak when I put water in it. Sealed up in 5 minutes with soaking the heads.

I'm going for.. a medium level. I want the barrel notes to be in the nose, and in the finish of the beer, with the base brown base still standing on it's own. Looking for a little more than a kiss but not enough to change the beer so drastic.

I'd be happy to send you a bottle or two when it's done. I keg, so I can carb it fast, and then beer gun it into purged bottles.