Brown Malt Ale

[isitbeeroclock]

I used some brown malt for the first time in a brew last night. It smelt fantastic in the mash. The kitchen smelt more like a bakery than a brewery. I guess the beer I brewed is a type of brown ale, it should turn out sweet and malty with low bitterness and hoppyness. Looking forward to tasting this one.

80% MO
15% Brown Malt
5% Crystal
Fuggles hops for 60mins

This brew got me thinking as I read somewhere once that all British beers where made with brown malt before pale malt appeared. Does anyone know a simple, traditional pre-pale malt era British recipe based on brown malt?

 

[MyQul]

You've basically made a brown porter there, mate.

Have a look at this thread from another forum discussing brown malt in porter

http://forum.*****************.uk/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4691

From that thread a poster mentions a website whose interest are beers from the 1840's to 1914

http://www.durdenparkbeer.org.uk/Recipes.html

Beers of yesteryear (I'm talking centuries here) would have tasted very different from the beers we enjoy today.

I have a book that is extremely well detailed and researched on the history of stouts & porters and of course brown malt (it even tell you how to make brown malt yourself).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1629145114/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[MyQul]

Not sure why there's lots of asterisk's when I tried to do a link for that site?:hmm:

 

[isitbeeroclock]

Thanks for the links and info MyQul. I might try out some of those old recipes in future.