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I'm came up with an American Brown Ale recipe based on a few different recipes I've read combined with using up some of the ingredients I have lying around. I'm fairly confident with the grain bill but I'm not certain about the hop combination...

Recipe: American Brown Ale
Style: American Brown Ale
TYPE: All Grain

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.053 SG
Estimated FG: 1.014 SG
Estimated ABV: 5.1 %
Estimated Color: 46.0 EBC
Estimated IBU: 26.6 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 73.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 80.9 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 74.1 %
0.67 kg Munich Malt (17.7 EBC) Grain 2 12.4 %
0.28 kg Crystal, Medium (Simpsons) (108.3 Grain 3 5.2 %
0.25 kg Chocolate Malt (Simpsons) (1050.0 Grain 4 4.6 %
20.00 g Willamette [6.90 %] - Boil 60.0 m Hop 5 13.7 IBUs
43.00 g Tettnang, U.S. [1.90 %] - Boil 30 Hop 6 5.7 IBUs
38.00 g Centennial [10.30 %] - Boil 5.0 m Hop 7 7.2 IBUs
0.20 kg Brown Sugar, Light [Boil for 5 mi Sugar 8 3.7 %
1.0 pkg London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968 Yeast 9 -


Mash:
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Name Description Step Temper Step Time
Mash In Add 20.56 l of water at 71.3 C 67.0 C 60 min

Any thoughts on the hops? Will tettnang work as the 30 minute addition? If I do swap it out I could use Willamette at 30 as well as 60. I also have northdown, northern brewer and perle which should work fairly well in a brown ale.
 
Hey, that's a wicked looking recipe there.
My personal opinion: Willamette is perfect for this beer so you may want to single hop it or substitute the Tettnang for something like Northern Brewer. I like my brown ales with more of a subtle hop flavouring so feel free to disregard what I'm saying on that front. Grains look great.
 

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