Brown Ale Experiment With Chocolate Rye Malt - The Shocking Truth!

[@preuc3367]

Thanks for continuing to make videos 😊

[@tobyschneider1784]

I really enjoy your videos. I love the fact that I'm not the only guy making a beer with ingredients because I have them, and they need to go. Keep brewing, boys. Cheers

[@TheKlokan44]

stash cleaning miscellaneous porter.......put all of the specialty malts up to about 1/2 lb in a bag . collect all left over base malts and sensibly add enough treacle/brown sugar/dextrose to get a OG above about 1.060 hops to your taste but better to go a bit on the high side with fuggle, perle, EKG

[@pattonmoore]

I recently used chocolate rye for a rye porter, which was excellent. From the sound of your brew, it's great as well. Brew on dudes! *"Too Englishy" I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes you want it very Englishy sometimes you don't!

[@dustinbloom2544]

I honestly love the taste of Willamette hops in English beers. Call me crazy, but it does some solid work with those English yeasts and malt bases, and I don't miss other hops. Option for experimentation outside of EKG.

[@davidhall158]

I’ve been using Willamette as a replacement for Fuggles for quite a while, mainly because the (English) Fuggles I was getting was so poor. Willamette was recommended as a replacement; maybe this goes back to Charlie Papazian’s books from the early 90s? Picked up some locally-grown (Tasmania) Fuggles recently though, so I guess I’ll use that for the next few.

[@pattonmoore]

I've used Willamette along with EKG many times in porters and stouts and I'm particularly fond of the flavor blend.

[@christiangullfeldt2151]

Love it! Keep 'em coming.

[@allanbrand]

Love the Alaskan Brewing shirt! Alaskan Amber is what got me into homebrewing back in 2007 when I first had Alaskan Amber during a trip to Seattle. When I returned to Texas I went looking for the beer only to find that at the time it was only distributed on the West Coast. During my searches for the beer, I kept coming across homebrew clone recipes for it. So it began...

[@ianbuchanan9445]

My understanding is that Alaskan Amber is actually an Alt Bier.

[@allanbrand]

@@ianbuchanan9445 When I was reading the history of it, it was based on an Alt recipe but the would not confirm the yeast only saying that it was not German.

[@grahamhawes7089]

I’ve copitched like this before with LAIII and Chico. I’d say that I got more than 50% of the usual LAIII flavor and some of the mouthfeel. But also got the attenuation of Chico. I liked the results. I’d play around with it more if it wasn’t annoying to make two starters - maybe I’ll use US-05 and Verdant.

[@BrewDudes]

Are you overpitching possibly if you make two starters? Cheers! -Mike

[@BrewDudes]

I don't think that's really an issue, just asking.

[@grahamhawes7089]

They were from previous overbuilt starters so I think it ended up being only like 30% more yeast than I’d normally pitch into an ale - if you trust yeast calculators. Within normal margins. If I was using dry yeast I’d just do half a pack of each. I think there’s a lot of forgiveness in this area.

[@WarmHugFermentations]

Fresh Bramling Cross is a wonder in pales and bitters. There are lots of new English hops coming along nicely, Harlequin, Olicana and Jester are well worth a punt if you can get your hands on some ✌️

[@lekcom62]

thankyou guys this my favorite just love a great brown ale but i had to give up brewing beer i have so bad at it not at spirits just not beer but i will still keep trying you guys are amazing

[@pv4669]

Love the videos. Never made a Brown Ale; might have to try. Thanks Dudes!

[@BrewDudes]

Don't make this one. We have better brown ale videos. For me the secret ingredient is special roast from Briess. maybe 5% or less of the total bill. Cheers! -Mike

[@1985jamesward]

Challenger and Target are the English hops you desire

[@AdamRayOfficial]

Pilgrim hops

[@peterpoel1019]

When is a gift not a gift? When it’s 25# of chocolate rye?!

[@pattonmoore]

😁

[@BrewDudes]

Or 50 pounds