Maple Smoked Bacon Brown Ale

We brewed the much anticipated Maple Smoked Bacon Brown Ale yesterday. All in all it was a great brew session! Things went much smoother than anticipated. I built this recipe from the ground up using Beersmith. Bacon Brown 22.6 SRM The previous Bacon Porter we brewed was ok, but we lost the bacon flavor as it aged out so I decided to do a Brown Ale and hop it like an IPA with real smoked bacon as well as bacon extract! My hopes IF this beer turns out is a nice, smokey Brown Ale with mild earthy undertones with a hint of chocolate, herbal aromatic qualities and a huge blast of bacon in the finish! Kind of like a Bacon Party in your mouth! Definitely unconventional beer. The hop schedule was basically 1.5oz. of pure bacon every 15 minutes for a hour boil! At the half hour and the end we added a cup of the secret bacon extract along with the real bacon! The bacon seemed to infuse into the boil quite well. During the cool down there was some bacon fat floating in the wort. I tried a piece and it had lost all it's flavor to the wort. I plan on dry hopping another ounce of bacon during secondary and carbonating with the bacon syrup extract instead of corn sugar. After all, one can never have enough bacon right? It will be interesting to see how this experiment comes out. We decided not to post the recipe unless it works out. It's kind of an expensive experiment but one I had to try. There is a brewery in Santa Cruz, CA Uncommon Brewers that is making a similar beer. I think they intend to can it. Some quick stats on this Beer, OG: 1.054 Brix: 13.2 Single mash infusion. Estimated ABV: 5.0%. Can't wait to try it! Hops & Bacon 30 min. hop schedule Residual Bacon / cool down Be sure and check back for the tasting notes on this one in about 6-8 weeks! In the meantime, relax, have a homebrew! Cheers! Thanks for checking out our Blog!