Description
This 5 litre recipe kit features everything you need to brew a classic yet drinkable brown ale, as part of our Kitchen Brewer series or otherwise known as stove top brewing.
Expect a beer with plenty of body, deep brown colour, chocolate notes and complexity.
Check out the video instructions or our step by step blog post to guide you from brew day to bottle!
Looking for some equipment to brew this beer at home in your own kitchen? Take a look at our bespoke Kitchen Brewer equipment bundles, featuring everything you need to brew this beer yourself.
About the Kitchen Brewer Range
Brewing 20l batches of beer just isn’t convenient for everyone. We also know that many of you would love to experience the joy of making your own all grain beer at home but space doesn’t permit. That’s why we’ve put together the Kitchen Brewer range. Featuring great recipes that come from our most popular bigger recipe kits and all the equipment you will need to make great tasting beer at home, using all grain, just like the pros. All these beer kits have been prepared and developed to work with the common method for stove top brewing, brew in the bag. The grain is crushed slightly finer to allow for maximum efficiency when mashing.
Ingredients Included
Simpsons Best Pale Ale Malt
Simpsons Malts Crystal Light
Simpsons Crystal Medium
Simpsons Brown Malt
Simpsons Chocolate Malt
Weyermann Carafa Special type 2
Goldings (East Kent Goldings) T90 Pellets (10 grams)
WHC Saturated Yeast – 11g (1 packs)
Method
Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): English-Style Brown Ale
Batch Size: 5l
Original Gravity: 1.044
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV %: 4.3
IBU: 20
THE MASH
Temperature °C: 65
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C: N/A
Out time (mins): N/A
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 30
Additions and timing:
Add 7g East Kent Goldings @ 30mins
Add 3g East Kent Goldings @ 0min
Secondary additions and timing:
N/A
Yeast: Lalbrew London – English Ale Yeast
Fermentation temperature/steps: 18c – 7-10 days
Comments:
Allow beer to fully ferment out before packaging
After fermentation has completed add your fermenter to a fridge for 24 hours before packaging. This will aid with beer clarity.
Klaus Werner (verified owner) –
Having recently turned to “stove top” small batch brewing I’m trying out a variety of recipe kits.
This Tawny Brown Ale is excellent, as promised in the description, of dark brown colour, nutty and chocolaty aroma, full bodied.
Mine came at FG 1.016, but still a good strength. Might even do this as a 5gal batch.
Alan Roche (verified owner) –
Kitchen Brewer – Tawny Town – Brown Ale.
This was a bit of a shock.! absolutely amazing result. Tastes very similar to Vocation’s Chocolate Stout. Truly exceptional. Can’t recommend enough. 🍻
Martin Hudson (verified owner) –
This was a Pinter test brew. I mashed the grains in my insulated picnic box at the suggested temp, boiled it for the 30 mins and got just under 5 litres in the Pinter at 1.055, not the 1.044 as per recipe. I’m not going to complain about that as on tapping the Pinter it has produced a full bodied rounded beer that is too easy to have more than just one. Going to leave it to condition foe another 2 weeks as I’m getting that slight metallic hint I always seem to get when using WHC yeasts. In time those do clear up. Next time I brew this I’ll use SA-04 instead which I wish was an option when ordering the kit.