was thinking about making a brown ale next weekend, and wondered if anyone had any good recipies (extract)? was thinking about making it a little hoppier, and thoughts? also was considering adding a little rye. anyone ever try this? any thoughts? I was thinking the crispness / spiciness of the rye would be interesting with the malts.
For what it's worth, a clone for 1970s Newcastle Brown. 7 lb pale malt 8 oz crystal malt 3 oz chocolate malt 1 lb soft dark brown sugar 2 oz Fuggles hops 1 1/2 oz Northern Brewers hops No spec given for the crystal malt-at the time there was only 1 sort available.
i've had a few hoppy browns (maybe brown ipa's or something). the only commercial ones that comes to mind is terrapin hop karma or dogfish indian brown open to ideas. was thinking about grabbing a few recipies off line and either winging it or asking the LHBS for advice
the IBA recipe from DFH has become my house beer, i always keep it around, because it's always good. I'm bottling my latest batch in a week.
brewing tomorrow, took some of the advice from here and went with one of the DFH clones I found on line. going to add 1 lb of rye and .5 of smoked malt.
