Does anyone know how to make Honey Brown Beer?!
Answers: I know how to make standard beers but would like to experiment with a Honey Brown, Please let me know what ingredients to add, at what part of the process and how much.
Assuming you are an extract brewer:
Ingredients for 5 gallons
3 pounds amber malt extract
3 pounds dark malt extract
3/4 pound cara-pils malt
3/4 pound crystal malt (80L)
2 ounces chocolate malt
2 pounds Clover Honey
1 1/2 ounces Kent Golding hops (bittering)
1/2 ounce Fuggle hops (flavoring)
1/2 ounce Kent Golding hops (aroma)
1 teaspoon gypsum
1 package British ale yeast
1 cup light or dark brown sugar for priming
Procedure
Place crystal malt, cara-pils malt, amber malt and chocolate malt in 2 gallons water and steep at 155 degrees for 1/2 hour.
Remove spent grains, rinse with 1/2 gallon hot water.
Add gypsum and bring water to a boil.
Add malt extracts, 1 1/2 ounces Kent Golding hops, and brown sugar.
Boil for 1 hour adding the Fuggles hops after 30 minutes, add the honey after 50 minutes and 1/2 ounce Kent Goldings for the last 5 minutes.
Cool Wort, top off with water to 5 gallons and pitch the yeast
Ferment for 7 to 10 days.
Bottle using 1 cup brown sugar.
Age in bottle for 7 days.
15+ year homebrewer