What do you call?

[Jaeger48]

I brewed a batch last night that was supposed to be the Northern English Brown in BCS but the LBHS didn't have special B or victory so I did some substituting. Not only that my OG was 10 points higher than I had planned which pushed it out of style. I looked through the book at the American Brown and lo' my malt bill was very similar. The exceptions come in with my hops and yeast so what style would you say the following recipe would fit? Either way it smells amazing and I can't wait to get this in the keg.

75% Efficiency
OG: 1.063
FG: should be 1.016
17.2 SRM
26 IBUs
6.6% ABV

10lbs Maris Otter
.5 lb Biscuit Malt
.5 lb Crystal 40L
.5 lb Pale Chocolate Malt
.25lb Crystal 60L

1.5 oz (5%) EKG (60 mins)
.5 oz (5%) EKG (5 mins)

Single Infusion Mash at 154F for 60 minutes dropping to 151F over that 60 minutes. Batch sparged to preboil volume of 5.75 gallons with boil-off to around 5 gallons. Fermenting in the minifridge at 66F.

Pitched a Wyeast 1098 2 liter starter.

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Americanize it. Dry hop the shit out of it with Cascade and/or Centennial. Sounds pretty tasty.

[jamilz]

Beer?

Seriously, it doesn't matter. Sounds like it might be quite tasty. Call it an english brown ale if you want. If once it is done it tastes like one style or another, then call it that style. Doesn't really matter what the recipe was that brewed it. The only thing that matters is what it tastes like.

[boobookittyfuk]

Beer?

Seriously, it doesn't matter. Sounds like it might be quite tasty. Call it an english brown ale if you want. If once it is done it tastes like one style or another, then call it that style. Doesn't really matter what the recipe was that brewed it. The only thing that matters is what it tastes like.

Jamil is so right. Just look at this years NHC gold medal winning recipes. Some of them are quite shocking to me in that I can't believe that they produced the beers that won such high honors. It kind of shows you two things: one - NHC is almost as random as the lottery. two - when a recipe might be for a northern English brown ale may be gold medal material as a brown porter or even an alt....

[Jaeger48]

True, it's just that after listening to the show and style guidelines I'd like to brew something that I could enter. I don't really know what style this would match regardless of how good or bad it tastes ( I think it's going to be good from the samples)