Brew Day 6/3

The brewing has slowed a bit, mostly because of lack of space for new batches. The number one thing that is telling me is that I am not drinking enough. Here is whats brewing today:

Brown Ale
Malts: American 2-Row, Brown Malt, Chocolate Malt, Crystal
Hops: Magnum, Amarillo
ABV: ~4.8%
Playlist: Carolla and Sports Guy podcasts (I still need to actually make a real brewing playlist if I am going to include it, but Carolla is funny as shit)

I know I mentioned honing in the Pale Ale recipe by making 4 back to back batches with slight changes, but that is going to have to wait. I am so close with that recipe being set that I think I will hold off on making Pales for a bit so I can get another recipe or two dialed in. For the Brown I am shooting for sort of a hybrid between an English and American Brown. English Browns are dryer have a nutty taste and have low hop bitterness and aroma where Americans have more of a caramel and chocolate taste with higher hop bitterness and aroma. Basically meld those two and I am targeting a slightly nutty taste with a bit touch of chocolate and a moderate hop presence.

I also want to start posting name ideas for the different beers that I am making. I have thrown around different ideas for naming conventions, most recently I think I said I wanted to keep the year round name simple by just preceding the style with Payette, not sure that I like that idea anymore. I am sure I will continue to flip-flop on this, but right now I want to have names that include the style, but also put in some creativity. I would like to thrown in an element of something Boise/Idaho specific, but subtle to the point that it doesn't exclude people outside of Idaho from drinking it. Not sure if that made sense to you, but it make sense in my head.

Not sure why I keep associating Brown Ales with sheep, but in my head they seem right for each other. I have always been a fan of Mutton Buster Brown, just don't know how the association with beer and kids riding sheep will go over with the authorities and he public. The other direction I was thinking was something to do with the Basque Sheep Herders that come through the foothills in the summer. I have been doing some research on the topic and haven't found anything that sparked a great idea yet, so feel free to help me out. If I need to abandon the sheep theme, thrown out some ideas...Penitentiary?