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American Brown Ale

January 16th, 2010

This is my entry for the CRABS Jan competition, brewed on 1/4/2010  You can see from the stats below that this recipe pushes the boundaries of the 10C BJCP guidelines.   

This is the recipe from Brewing Classic Styles on pg 145 with minor tweaks.   If you like the west-coast style hoppy beers, this one is for you!

Ingredients:

12# 2-row Pale Malt
1# Wheat Malt
1.25# Carapils
1.25# Crystal 40L
0.5# Chocolate

Hops:

0.9 oz Northern Brewer 10.4% AA 60 Min
0.6 oz Northern Brewer 10.4% AA 15 Min
1.5 oz Cascade 5.3% AA 10 Min
1.0 oz Cascade 5.3% AA 0 Min
2 oz Centennial 9.2% AA DRY

Yeast:

(2) US-05 Fermentis Safale – Fermented @67F

Yield:

5.5 Gallons

Stats:

OG: 1.066 IBU: 63 SRM: 21

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