# 🍺 Top-down Brew: Newcastle Brown Ale Clone

Recipe variables
name: Newcastle Brown Ale clone og: 1.046 malt: Pale ale malt, 81.5, 2.2, 83 malt: Flaked Barley, 9, 1.5, 70 malt: Caramalt, 2.5, 33.5, 74 malt: Crystal Malt 55L, 2.5, 57.5, 74 malt: Crystal Malt 80L, 2.5, 80, 74 malt: Chocolate Malt 395L, 1, 395, 74 malt: Roasted Barley 500L, 1, 500, 54 ibu: 22 hop: Fuggle, 100, 5, 60 y: ale eff: 75 vol: 5.5 system: US prime: 2.4, 72

## Variations

Steeped grain plus malt extract:

- Delete the pale ale malt and flaked barley lines.
- For liquid malt extract: add sugar: Liquid light malt extract, 90.5, 5, 76
- For dry malt extract: add sugar: Dry light malt extract, 90.5, 3.5, 96
- Set the mash efficiency variable to 55% for steeping.

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## Results

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## Notes

Newcastle Brown Ale is a well-known example of a British brown ale.

The recipe recommends Witbread ale strains from Wyeast (1099) or White Labs (WLP017). Dry yeast possibilities are Mangrove Jack Empire Ale or Fermentis S-04.

## References

The Brew Your Own Big Book of Clone Recipes (2018), p. 85, Quarto Publishing Group