Brewing for Necessity

Today I found myself brewing for necessity after coming to the end of my Pil-Ale keg sooner than planned. What a travesty, I was out of beer! After the initial shock, I collected myself, headed to my local homebrew shop and threw together a grain bill. Here's what I came up with:

Pretty standard Brown Ale, nice and simple!
11lbs of British Two-Row malted Barley
.5lbs American Crystal Malt 40L (for color and caramel goodness)
.5lbs American Crystal Malt 120L (more color and flavor)
Long mash
30min @ 130-135
60min @ 154
30min @ 158
Mash out @ 160-168 30min
75min boil
2oz Fuggles Hops (pellets)
1.25 oz for 60 min
.50 oz for 30 min
.25 oz for 10 min
SafAle S-05 dry ale yeast (no time for propagation)

Surprisingly this turns out to be my 15th batch over the last 2 years. So far it looks, smells, and tastes great! Original gravity is 1.048. Even got a little better brewing efficiency thanks to a new false bottom I picked up while at the shop. More on that next post..

I'll keep you posted as this beer develops. Could use some help naming it...

Cheers,
-D