Newcastle Nut Brown Ale

[beerdrinker]

Hey Fellow Brewers,

Now I have had the Newcastle «Nut Brown on three occasions and have decided that I do really like it. Now comes the time to formulate a recipe, and this is where «I turn to this board for some advice.

I would like to make it an extract based brew with steeped grains. On hand I have tons of Light LME which I want to be the main ingredient, and for other ingredients, the local homebrew shop is pretty limited in crystal variations other malts, but they do have most of the common stuff.

Hop wise, I`d like to use Williamette, Cascade, Chinook, and Northern Brewer as much as possible as I have about 4 oz of each in stock and would like to get rid of those before adding to my hop inventory.

I have a couple recipes tracked down, but I`m not sure how accurate they would be to the newcastle flavour (which I am aiming for) and hope that someone here has a successful clone recipe of some idea of what direction I should take.

Thanks.

[beerdrinker]

Funny thing, I just checked my stack of BYO magazines and found an article on Brown ales. So I'm gonna use the following recipe.

6 lb LME
10 oz crystal 120
1.7 oz williamette (90)
SafAle S-04 Yeast

Hopefully this will turn out as I hope it will.

[BadRock]

See, that was easy! Goodluck on the NC clone, that's one of my favorite summer beers.

[Thirsty Mallard]

There is a recipe for a New Castle Clone in BYO (May '06).

I do remember that New Castle is actually two beers blended into one, so to truly get the flavors just right, you would have to brew both and find the blend that works.

I will try to dig up my old BYO's and find it for you...

[beerdrinker]

thanks, march-april 07 is the first BYO I got.

[Thirsty Mallard]

As luck would have it I can't find my old BYOs. Anyone out there have theirs from May 06?

[Whitebeard_Brewer]

I've got the issue here in my hands, it lists both recipies needed to make the 2 brews you combine....I guess I could scan it...(don't wanna get anyone pissed about copyrights stuff)???

Lemme know whatchall think!

Also, there is a recipe in Clonebrews.

[Chris_J]

If you really want to get rid of those chinook and cascade hops send them over to me in Ottawa!