Chestnut Brown Ale & Blended Wit-Brown

brewing

We do love a good brown ale and it being the winter season, we decided to brew one with nuts in as that seems like a winter thing to do. Not too many nuts mind. Subtle nuts.

Grain Bill

  • 5kg Pale
  • 2.5kg Munich
  • 1.5kg Vienna
  • 1.5kg Crystal
  • 1.5kg Brown
  • 0.75kg Wheat Malt
  • 0.25kg Chocolate

Mashed for 120min at 68C

Liquor to Grist: 2.5 : 1 (Approx.)

Boil

Boiled for 90 minutes, with the following fun additions:

  • 60m - 53g Bramling Cross
  • 60m - 200g De-shelled Roasted Chestnuts
  • 5m - 53g Goldings
  • 5m - 49g Crusader

Post-Boil

Yeast

We ended up with 42l and split this into 2 batches with 2 different yeasts:

  • WLP002 English Ale
  • WLP500 Monastry Ale

Results:

  • OG 1.062
  • FG 1.020
  • ABV - 5.5%

Blending

One of the two batches was taken to blend with our bee pollen wit, which had sadly become infected with lactobacillus, in order to give it body and balance the sourness.

Several ratios were tried and we settled with:

  • 23% Wit
  • 77% Chestnut Brown Ale

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