Janet's Brown Ale

**kal** · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:04 am Post subject:

It's definitely a great beer. I just finished my 3rd keg of it a couple of days ago...

Kal

mvakoc · Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Posts: 152 Location: Evergreen, CO

Kal, have you ever bottled and moderately aged this beer? As expected for a hoppy beer it loses a lot of flavor but I was surprised just how much this one in particular changed.

perogi · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:51 am Post subject:

mvakoc - what kind of bottle caps are you using? The "oxygen-absorbing" ones?

**kal** · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:23 am Post subject:

Nope. Only kegged. Though I have some kegs that are 6-12 months old.

Kal

Kevin59 · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:42 pm Post subject:

So for what it's worth, referring back to my post yesterday where I calculate a post-boil gravity of 1.074, that's still the value I get regardless of the pre-boil volume. Which makes sense when I stop to think about it since the total gravity points from the grain are "conserved" through the post-mash extraction process. This recipe has 940.6 max total gravity points based on the grain and amounts used, so at 95% mash extraction efficiency that's 893.6 points into the BK. If the finished volume is 12 gallons then the gravity should be 1.074.

Working in reverse, if the actual post-boil OG is 1.068 for a 12 gallon volume, then the total gravity points in the BK are 816. That's equivalent to an 86.7% mash extraction efficiency (816/940.6).

So where am I going wrong in my evaluation of this process? My geeky spreadsheet is attached if anyone wants to play with it and/or figure out where I've gone wrong.

NOTE: This is a fantastic beer! I love it, I'm drinking it (at home not now Smile

) and I'm making it again this weekend! So once again, I'm not complaining but rather just trying to thoroughly understand.

-Kevin

mvakoc · Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Posts: 152 Location: Evergreen, CO

OkieDokie · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 4:09 pm Post subject:

Is Janet's Brown Ale, similar to say Sam Smith's Nut Brown, or is it hoppier than that? It seems like a nut brown isn't hoppy, but this might be. Just wondering about the malt versus hop balance.

**kal** · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 4:28 pm Post subject:

**kal** · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 10:22 pm Post subject:

Update:

I brewed this beer again in the fall of 2013 but but this time I'm serving it using a beer gas blend (70% nitro / 30% CO2) instead of straight CO2, pushed through one of my stout faucets to get a nice creamy head and close to flat beer. Absolutely wonderful. I enjoy it a lot more than on regular C02 so this one's always going to be served this way from now on.

Kal

Geosmashing · Joined: 25 Apr 2014 Posts: 36 Location: Ottawa, Canada

I want to brew this one next. Can someone help me understand what adding hops during the mash means, exactly? Do I add hops to the mashtun at the same time as I'm mashing-in?

**kal** · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 11:21 pm Post subject:

Geosmashing · Joined: 25 Apr 2014 Posts: 36 Location: Ottawa, Canada

Cool, thanks for the reply!

Paulhere · Joined: 12 Jul 2015 Posts: 2

Kal - I noticed the AHA recipe has dextrose but I didn't see it in yours. Did you increase the base grain and forego the dextrose?

**kal** · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:54 am Post subject:

Paulhere · Joined: 12 Jul 2015 Posts: 2

This is the recipe I was referring to:

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/janets-brown-ale/

It is the "imperial" version and is a little different than the one in BCS. I believe this is the recipe that gets brewed at Russian River.

**kal** · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:40 pm Post subject:

I've never done that version. If you do brew it let us know how you like it!

Kal

Keating · Joined: 08 Oct 2015 Posts: 1 Location: Ottawa

**kal** · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 2:55 pm Post subject:

Interesting - Thanks for the update! I'll include it in the original post.

Kal

ParadiseBrew · Joined: 09 Dec 2014 Posts: 83 Location: paradise, ca

i just killed 10 gallons of this. This is an amazing beer to brew no matter what time of the year it is. will defiantly be keeping it on the rotation!

**kal** · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:05 pm Post subject:

Agreed! I haven't brewed it for 2-3 years now so I'm definitely due. Too many beers!

Kal