BeerBorg

Only advanced because I used some pre-mashed "brown ale juice" that I made. I posted that recipe in the "what are you brewing thread".

In this batch it amounts to this:

1.5# Maris Otter
2oz each of Torrifed Wheat, Brown Malt, Special B, British Chocolate, and Belgian Biscuit. I would have used English Dark Crystal if I had some, but special B is a good substitute.

To that I added:

2# MoreBeer Maris Otter Extract
2oz Maltodextrin
4oz 45L Candi Syrup

1/8oz Magnum (12.6%) @60
1/2oz Fuggles (4.2%) @40
3/8oz Fuggles (4.2%) @20
1/8oz Fuggles (4.2%) @flameout

Cooled, pitched pack of Nottingham.

Was 1.052, should be around 18 SRM, should be around 25 IBUs.

I fortified it with a bit of candi sugar because its winter, and the 45L has nice caramel and vanilla notes that be subtle and work well in this. It's similar to what old British recipes would call "Liquid Brewers Invert 2".

A few more days until I bottle this one I think, but I just brewed another batch with the same grain bill, except 4oz of Dextrose instead of the candi syrup, and I doubled up the amount of late hops, adding 1/2oz of US Goldings in with the 20 minute addition, and adding another 1/2oz of US Goldings at flameout.

So that one will be a very dark (barely within style) ESB like substance.

Bottled the original batch of this at 1.012. Tasted fuggly and nutty.

This (brown ale version) is Fuggleing good.