Help with a recipe

[gnemesis]

I am still very new at making recipies but my friend has challenged me with ingredients and I have to make a good beer with it. This could prove to be a fun game! This is what I have to use and I can buy more ingredients if needed: 8lbs Dark DME, Brown Sugar, 4 ounces of cascade pellets (6.00%) and WL California yeast. Any help would be great! I can use more or less of any of these but I must use these 4 items. Perhaps a dark India Brown?

[Beer Martin]

You could go off the wall and do like a Rye IPA. The Brown IPA is the obvious choice.

I'll put some thought to it and see if I can't come up with something.
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[cavers]

How about this - bitter with around two ounces of the Cascade. Depends on the % alpha, but it'll probably bitter it nicely enough. Make a 6 gallon batch, use all of the DME and a pound of the brown sugar, toss in an ounce of Cascade at flameout and another for dry hopping. Should start at a bit over 1.060, which is just fine for your California Ale yeast to ferment, I'd imagine. Mmm - India dark ale.

[vance71975]

How about this - bitter with around two ounces of the Cascade. Depends on the % alpha, but it'll probably bitter it nicely enough. Make a 6 gallon batch, use all of the DME and a pound of the brown sugar, toss in an ounce of Cascade at flameout and another for dry hopping. Should start at a bit over 1.060, which is just fine for your California Ale yeast to ferment, I'd imagine. Mmm - India dark ale.

This is a Twist on my "India Brown Ale" Which i personally think is amazing!!

6 lbs Dark Malt Extract
2 lbs Brown Sugar
1 lb Vienna Malt Steeped 60 mins
2 oz Cascade 60 min boil
1 oz Cascade Flame out
1 oz Cascade Dry Hopped day 5
California Ale yeast x2 packs

Below is the recipie i used to make my "India Brown Ale".

SG 1.050

6 lbs Dark Malt Extract(i know i know use Light malt)
1 lb Vienna Malt Steeped 60 mins
1 oz Magnum(16.7AA) 60 min boil
1 oz Nugget(12.9 AA)60 min boil
1 oz East Kent Goldings(4.7AA) Flame out
1 oz Perle(7.9AA) Dry hopped day 1
1 oz Amarillo(8.8AA) Dry hopped Day 3
1 oz Tetnange(5.5AA) Dry Hopped day 5
1 package Burton's water salts.
Wyeast 1968 London ESB Yeast

[corkybstewart]

How about this - bitter with around two ounces of the Cascade. Depends on the % alpha, but it'll probably bitter it nicely enough. Make a 6 gallon batch, use all of the DME and a pound of the brown sugar, toss in an ounce of Cascade at flameout and another for dry hopping. Should start at a bit over 1.060, which is just fine for your California Ale yeast to ferment, I'd imagine. Mmm - India dark ale.
The only thing I would change is to use 1/2 pound or less of brown sugar. That is a lot of DME, and who knows what's in it, so I would go light on the brown sugar.

[markaberrant]

You can always add the brown sugar after fermentation has died down. I like to do that with my sugar additions, then I can adjust accordingly.

[corkybstewart]

You can always add the brown sugar after fermentation has died down. I like to do that with my sugar additions, then I can adjust accordingly.
I do the same thing, but for me the brown sugar taste can be overwhelming, especially in a low gravity beer.