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Anyone brew this (I assume around here a few have). How is it? How does it compare to Janet's? Thinking about buying this today. Would love to buy Janet's in a kit, but no one has it in one, and everywhere I see the recipe for it the recipe is different as well as usually all grain.

Thanks.

I have brewed it before and its a good brown ale, I believe its Shat's version of Janet's Brown. I purchased this kit when B3 first released it so its been awhile and will have to dig through my notes to recall the all my tasting notes on it. I say go for it.

nanofreak wrote:Anyone brew this (I assume around here a few have). How is it? How does it compare to Janet's? Thinking about buying this today. Would love to buy Janet's in a kit, but no one has it in one, and everywhere I see the recipe for it the recipe is different as well as usually all grain.

Thanks.

The extract recipe for Janet's Brown Ale is in "Brewing Classic Styles" by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer. I make an Imperial version that has a 1.074 OG instead of 1.065. The all-grain recipe for that beer is at: http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/JanetsBrownAle I'm not sure why more homebrew shops don't carry a JBA kit. Maybe they are waiting for it to gain more popularity.

SoCalBrewer wrote:I have brewed it before and its a good brown ale, I believe its Shat's version of Janet's Brown. I purchased this kit when B3 first released it so its been awhile and will have to dig through my notes to recall the all my tasting notes on it. I say go for it.

The BN Brown is an English Brown that Chad designed. Both it and JBA are brown, otherwise they are completely different.

Tasty thanks for the reply. I went out and finally picked up the book last night. I had been checking Barnes for it every time there and they never had it, finally went to a borders and picked up a copy. I will be brewing this on Sat and am looking forward to the results.

I also don't understand why it isn't a kit anywhere, perhaps with it in the book vendors look at it as a copyright issue, who knows.

nanofreak wrote:Tasty thanks for the reply. I went out and finally picked up the book last night. I had been checking Barnes for it every time there and they never had it, finally went to a borders and picked up a copy.

{cough}BN Store

Oh yeah.

nanofreak wrote:
I also don't understand why it isn't a kit anywhere,

Why are you so hung up on a kit? Just buy the ingredients.

Brandon wrote:

nanofreak wrote:
I also don't understand why it isn't a kit anywhere,

Why are you so hung up on a kit? Just buy the ingredients.

Plus kits are all geared towards 5 gallons, which really only gives you 4-4.5 of beer. Just take the recipe from BCS