Brewing a Brown Ale

1st day of 2010 and here I am, brewing another batch :-)

This is my second batch of all grain brown ale and decided to do few changes to the original recipe. Here's the recipe for this batch:

- 7# Gambrinus 2-Row Pale Ale Malt 2L

- 1# Briess Crystal 120L

- 1# Special B 115L

- 1/4# Chocolate Malt 350L

- 1/4# Weyerman Carafa 2 550L

Recipe numbers:

- OG = 1.050

- FG = 1.011

- ABV = 5%

- Color = 34L

- IBU = 23

Mashed at 159F for 60 minutes. Mashing efficiency was 73%. Boiled for 60 minutes and these were the boil additions:

- 0.4oz Columbus AA13% Hops for 60min

- 0.5oz Cascade AA6.9% Hops for 5min

- 0.5oz Saaz AA5.9% Hops for 5min

- 1tsp Irish moss for 20min

Used 1 smack pack of Wyeast 1056 American Ale, now at 70F. Will lower to 65F after 24h and keep it until fermentation is completed.