AG#97 - Brown Ceas (NCB/Saltaire Brew for the Bar)

[Franklin]

Brown Ceas - This is my NCB / Saltaire Brewery brew for the bar, an American Style Brown Ale, loosely based on my previous 'Steaming, Brown & Sticky' of last year, this is going to be a little lighter in colour as the other version was almost black, or at least a very dark brown.
'Brown Ceas' its like the 3-Cs Cascade, Columbus, Chinook and its brown!

Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 72%
Wheat Malt - 10%
Crystal Malt - 5%
Caramalt - 5%
Carapils (Weyermann) - 5%
Chocolate Malt, Pale - 2%
Chocolate Malt - 1%

Hops:
Aramis - 8.9 % @ 65 mins - 36g
Saaz - 3.95 % @ 35 mins - 40g
Columbus (Tomahawk) - 16.5 % @ 0 mins - 30g
Cascade - 7.9 % @ 0 mins - 30g
Chinook - 12.5 % @ 0 mins - 60g

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.045
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 4.3% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 77 % (Its too late now, I punched in 77 rather than 75%!!!)
Bitterness: 45 EBU
Colour: 46 EBC
Mash: 68c for 60-90mins
Yeast: Safale us-05

The Malts:

First Wort Aramis Hops:

Recirculating the Mash for Clarity:

The Hops all weighed out and ready:

85c Steep Hops in for 30mins:

Top-Down view of the copper running off to FV, I got 1052 Gravity:

The spent hops in the copper, they soaked up a good couple of litres:

AG#97 - Brown Ceas by Franklin, on Flickr

Bit of a late start but all done and dusted, liquored back just short of 3L from 1052 to 1045 getting a 21.92 Litre yield so only 1L short of target volume.
I almost forgot to add the Protafloc 'cos I was messing about on Twitter too much, extended boil by 5 mins to account for lack of concentration!
I may dry hop this with Cascade Pellets, we shall see... :)

 

[Asalpaws]

Sounds nice, I did a clone of Surly Bender this weekend that sounds similar. Used up 100g of Willamette in that one as well as some Columbus.

 

[Franklin]

Sounds tasty :)

 

[carl_saint]

Good stuff! Had mine in the bottle for a week now so should be well ready for the comp! My first ever comp entry though so not expecting much and looking forward to getting some feedback!

 

[PD]

Nice brew

 

[Franklin]

It should be a good Comp/Meet if the last two years are anything to go by :)

 

[abeyptfc]

cool brew, that wort chillier must be a pain in the **** to clean!

 

[Franklin]

not really, just a quick rinse and a brief scrub. It gets boiled in the wort so its not a problem.

 

[just_steve]

I sooo want to be at this meet next year. Looked at details for this year's meet a little while ago and realised I was already coming up to Shipley... but only on the following weekend . Oh well, I'll have to make it next year instead... besides, by which point I'll have a few BIABs behind me, so I'll feel a bit more confident about making an entry!

I hope your beer goes down well at the meet : !

 

[Franklin]

Well fingers crossed, we'll do it again :)