This is something I've been thinking of doing since I made my pliny clone (which is delicious by the way). There is a guy I work with who isn't what I would call a connoisseur of beer but he does love it and loves drinking it. He does not like overly hoppy styles and he tends to gravitate towards darker styles (browns, porters) that also happen to be high in alcohol (I believe he enjoys the effect ). One of his favorite beers is shed mountain ale. I'm not looking to clone it but I'm considering it's qualities when I form this beer that I'm hoping my friend will enjoy.
So I'd shoot for something like 1.070-1.075 (I know not huge but I don't want any 10% monster beers around the house b/c I'll go ahead and drink them )
I typically make 10 gallon batches so that's what I'd do.
? lbs 2-row Pale
1.00 lbs Crystal 80
3.00 lbs White Wheat Malt
1.00 lbs Pale Chocolate
? lbs Chocolate Wheat or dehusked something or other (depends on what I have on hand, this is mostly for color adjustment)
1.25 lbs table sugar
mash at 151F
I'll adjust the 2-row Pale to get me to the right gravity. I'll adjust the Chocolate Wheat to get my SRM to about 16-17.
I'm thinking something like 45 IBUs total.
? oz of nugget @ 60 mins
1 oz of nugget @ 5 mins
1 oz of mt. hood @ 5 mins
2 oz of palisade @ 0 mins
ferment on 2 packets of US-05
I obviously still have to work out some of the details but this would be a fairly new direction for me in that I've never really brewed anything quite like it.
Edited by Evil_Morty, 24 February 2015 - 09:21 AM.