Kodiak Brown: an American brown ale brought to you by BearHole Brewing
Is there a partial mash recipe out there yet? If so i missed it.
Thanks
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Hey Thirsty. I think I am getting a bit confused here and need a redefinition of a couple of beer styles. What is the difference between an American Brown such as this recipe, and a Saison? I have done a fair share of American Browns, but no Saison beers, at least on purpose... However, the recipes are starting to meld a bit in my mind and I am getting a bit fuddled..... Help
I'm thinking along these lines, using a 3.3# LME jug
Kodiak Brown
Brew Type: Partial Mash
Style: American Brown Ale
Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Volume: 3.82 gal Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.00 % Equipment: Brew Pot (4 Gallon)
Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.30 lb LME Golden Light (Briess) (4.0 SRM) Extract 35.48 %
3.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 32.26 %
0.75 lb Amber (Crisp) (27.5 SRM) Grain 8.06 %
0.75 lb Coffee Malt (150.0 SRM) Grain 8.06 %
0.75 lb Corn - Yellow, Flaked (Briess) (1.3 SRM) Grain 8.06 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 5.38 %
0.25 lb Roasted Barley (Briess) (300.0 SRM) Grain 2.69 %
1.00 oz Columbus [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 33.4 IBU
1.00 oz Cascade, Argentine [3.70 %] (Dry Hop 10 days) Hops -
0.50 oz Cascade [7.20 %] (30 min) Hops 6.6 IBU
Beer Profile Estimated Original Gravity: 1.056 SG (1.045-1.060 SG)
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.014 SG (1.010-1.016 SG)
Estimated Color: 21.5 SRM
Bitterness: 40.1 IBU (20.0-40.0 IBU) Alpha Acid Units: 17.6 AAU
Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 5.37 % (4.30-6.20 %)
I did note that thirsty's original recipe calls for an IBU of 57, which is 17 points higher than the style guidelines.
What have ye to say, then, Sir thirsty?
Crabnut wrote:
Hey Thirsty. I think I am getting a bit confused here and need a redefinition of a couple of beer styles. What is the difference between an American Brown such as this recipe, and a Saison? I have done a fair share of American Browns, but no Saison beers, at least on purpose... However, the recipes are starting to meld a bit in my mind and I am getting a bit fuddled..... Help
For starters Brown ales are brown. You will see things like chocolate malt or roasted malts in them with some crystal on occasion. American brown is fermented with clean american ale yeasts.
Saison is usually yellow in color. Has pilsner malt and maybe some other lightly kilned malts for body and flavor. Saison will have a citrus presence from additions of corriander and maybe even lemon and orange zest.
Saison is fermented with a belgian ale yeast which gives off its own fruity esters and maybe some phenols typical with belgian styles.
Two very different styles.
Not sure how these two are getting mixed up but I hope that helps.
brewchez wrote:
Not sure how these two are getting mixed up but I hope that helps.
Always the risk when I forget to engage the brain. I was going about eight different ways yesterday morning, among other things planning my next couple of brews, mixing up a batch of Rootbeer as a favor to a friend and his group of VFW veterans, dry-hopping a keg of Mack & Jack, getting in the thought process for umpiring a baseball game yesterday afternoon, and the never ending process of my job-search. I was looking at my brew planning for my next two brews (this recipe for Kodiak Brown and Thirsty's recommendation for 1n1m3g's LaCharite` Saison II) and I went into brain lock on the orange and lemon zest. Let's see here. If we forget about malts, yeasts, hops, and brewing, it's just adding flavorings to water, like rootbeer, right? No wonder my baseball game yesterday afternoon was such a mess. I was probably trying to officiate a basketball game out there.
Just started cooling the wort on this.
Hope I didn't screw it up too much.
Got everything out & discovered that I had Chocolate Malt, not Coffee, and my Roast Barley was not light.
So, maybe I've got the Dark Chocolate Bear version of Kodiak Brown?? 
Looks like SRM: 29, don't know the OG yet. & I went for a lower IBU, around 41-42
.4oz Columbus (14%) & .6oz Cents (9.2%) for 60min, 1oz Cascade (7.2%) for 30min. Dry hop w/ 1ox Argentine Cascade (3.7%) in primary.
All that being said, Damn, it smells good. 
Brewski wrote:
Got everything out & discovered that I had Chocolate Malt, not Coffee, and my Roast Barley was not light.
So, maybe I've got the Dark Chocolate Bear version of Kodiak Brown??
Looks like SRM: 29, don't know the OG yet. & I went for a lower IBU, around 41-42
.4oz Columbus (14%) & .6oz Cents (9.2%) for 60min, 1oz Cascade (7.2%) for 30min. Dry hop w/ 1ox Argentine Cascade (3.7%) in primary.
All that being said, Damn, it smells good.
You should still wind up with a great beer, maybe from the malt perspective a tad closer to an impy robust porter, but with the American hops it should stay near the American style. The original recipe dosnt call for light RB, I do that just to round off the edge, and coffee and chocolate are very similar.
This is also a beer that does not need a ton of time. I ferment for 14 days, then rack to keg and start drinking. Speaking of which- I am drinking some right now!!
Thanks Brewski for the Mini-Mashers out there that don't own beersmith yet.
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You can use Beer Tools recipe generator on-line, free. It is a very simple version, but again, it's free.
Brewski wrote:
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You can use Beer Tools recipe generator on-line, free. It is a very simple version, but again, it's free.
couple others you can use free.
http://www.buildabeer.org/beerquickcalc … ipeMenu=40
http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/
www.brewblogger.net/
you might find something you like at one of those.
I know that I'm late to the party, but I picked up the ingredients to brew this one up today. The homebrew shop didn't have coffee malt, so I picked up some light chocolate malt instead. Hopefully I'll get to it on Saturday.
Nope, I didn't get to in on saturday. I got the yeast starter going & was all set to do it when I noticed some water dripping from the ceiling in my basement. After tracing out the drips I found out that the leak was comming from the cold water line feeding my bathroom sink, a piece of pipe that was burried in my bedroom wall. So instead of brewing yesterday, I got to make a nice big hole in my bedroom wall so I could access the pipe & replace it. I'm gonna shoot for brewing on monday now in seeing that I need to patch the hole in my wall yet, and replace the washers in my tub's valves. Both of which I need to get done today.
Just got the rest of my ingredients in the mail on Friday. Hopefully I'll be brewing this up this week sometime. Instead of the EKG and Cascades I might go with Vanguard and Amarillos. I was looking through Sam Calagione's Extreme Brewing book and noticed he uses Vanguard as a flavor hop addition in the DFH India Brown Ale. The LHBS had it in stock so I grabbed an ounce. Either way there will be AMARILLO in this beer... Mmmm. 
Just racked my Kodiak Chocolate to 2ndry. Smelled wonderful.
I really like the way the Argentine Cascades work as a dry hop.
Gonna need those extra taps on the kegerator soon.
Summer party season rapidly approaches.
I’m planning on re-brewing this beer this weekend, with a few tweaks. My residual alkalinity came in a little too low (miss-calculated) I think that masked some of the complexity, and I think I’ll go with all brown sugar.
I really like that flavor in the DFH.
I thought about calling this beer “Ironsides”; I dryhopped in primary and the keg, but you wouldn’t know it. Malt aroma only. It’s spent a couple of weeks on Amarillo since I last tried it, so I’ll try it again tonight. There is only around ¼ keg left though. With a few tweaks this will be in regular rotation for me.
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