Averagely Perfect American Brown Ale - Poll #8B - Crystal Malts "B" Segment

Are Golden Naked Oats a crystal?

 

I had to look up most of these having no experience with them.
I’m going C40 and that’s it for the crystals.
I used C40 and Pale Chocolate together recently to nice effect.
If there’s a brown or amber malt coming in I don’t think we need more than that.

 

SIMPSONS' DOUBLE ROASTED CRYSTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

GNO is a huskless oat crystal malt per Simpsons and in their words it, "is quite simply delicious". (I've not used it.)

 

I've never used it, can you describe what character it adds?

 

I went with GNO, medium and dark crystal before seeing everyone's votes. Really surprised to see all the votes for double roasted. Based on the number of votes, I'm ready to switch my vote, but I think this is a good place to discuss "vision" for this beer.

In the last week, I have had a sixer of Ellie's Brown from Avery and right now I am drinking a Maduro from Cigar City. I like both, but the Ellie's comes across on the thin side. I want something bigger like the Maduro which specifically mentions flaxed oats on the can, there is also a "bigness" to the taste/mouthfeel even though it is a 5.5% beer.

For our beer, I'd like to see a chocolately/roasty/dark or burnt sugar/caramel, not a porter, definitely not a big roasty stout, something "complex" but easy drinking and not a Newcastle Brown. Basically, I think I want the same thing that @minderbender described in the previous thread.

So, will the double roasted caramel along with GNO and pale chocolate get us to my vision?

 

Hopefully @MrOH or others who have used Simpsons DRC will jump back on and tell us if any/all of the description > here < is accurate. If it is it might get you closer.
It claims a usage rate of up to 20%, and I get the impression too much of it could easily tip the balance away from an “everybody” beer, but the dark fruit character sounds good.

 

Voting as to what is closest to the caramel malt I want. Not sure if that is correct.

 

GNO are gimmicky like Carapils.

 

Well this is timely and relevant:
https://www.craftbeer.com/craft-beer-muses/the-evolving-american-brown-ale-beer
(Ignore the bit about 17th century porter, though. Brown beer != brown ale.)

 

I find it to have a lot of the flavors of Special B, just in different proportions: more dark caramel flavor, less raisin and burnt sugar, along with some other dark fruits.

 

I now see that there is a different poll with them listed.

 

I've never used this malt. What is it like? The name has me intrigued.

 

Just added the Double Roasted Crystal to my vote based on @MrOH's description and the link from @riptorn Sounds like it would go well with GNO and Pale Chocolate malt

 

Seems like this is taking on a raisiny DRC direction.

 

If a voter votes in only one of the polls, does that diminish (or make null) their other votes? Or does it throw other stuff out of kilter, too?

 

New frontrunner is C60 followed by GNO and DRC. And the same question applies...