Merry Brewmas to me!

Today I went to my LHBS and picked up my Christmas present to myself. Basically it was a shopping spree. I finally got myself a glass carboy after wanting one for a couple years. I also picked up ingredients for a couple of 5 gallon extract with steeping grain batches. The one I am brewing today is from Jamil's book Brewing Classic Styles. It is the recipe called Janet's Brown Ale which I am renaming Nanci's Brown Ale after my wife, even though she does not like beer. It is a crazy hopped American Brown Ale. I had no plans on going for a brown this hoppy but for some reason all the recipes I was contemplating brewing were hoppy.
The recipe starts out with a lot of steeping grains, almost 3 pounds. Which includes some crystal 40, carapils, and some nice chocolate malt. Then for the extract it is 6 pounds of light DME and 1 pound of wheat DME. Then the hops. It is just over 9 oz of hops. A nice mix of Northern brewer, and what was supposed to be centennial and cascade. But I love cascades and it looks like when I was adding the brew to beersmith I typed cascade for all three of the finishing hops. Oh well, It will still be awesome. For the yeast I am using WYEAST 1056. Its 62 IBUS, about 6.5% abv and on the BU:GU scale its a 9.5. WOW.




53 Nanci's Brown Ale
American Brown Ale
Type: Extract Date: 12/18/2011
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal Brewer:
Boil Size: 3.15 gal Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Brew Pot (4 Gallon)
End of Boil Volume 2.86 gal Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal Est Mash Efficiency 0.0 %
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Taste Rating(out of 50): 30.0
Taste Notes:
Ingredients


Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
6 lbs DME Golden Light (Briess) (4.0 SRM) Dry Extract 4 60.6 %
1 lbs DME Wheat Bavarian (Briess) (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 5 10.1 %
1 lbs 1.1 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 2 10.8 %
1 lbs 5.0 oz Caramel Malt - 40L (Briess) (40.0 SRM) Grain 1 13.3 %
8.3 oz Chocolate (Briess) (350.0 SRM) Grain 3 5.3 %
1.84 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 36.5 IBUs
1.84 oz Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 7 18.1 IBUs
1.62 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 8 7.6 IBUs
1.99 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 9 0.0 IBUs
1.99 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [124.21 ml] Yeast 10 -