I decided that I still needed a brown beer in my range but that it needed to have more spirit to it than CC. A poured over ideas, researching different styles that I thought might do the trick but I always found myself coming back to the idea of doing an American Brown. It is a style that is very much neglected in the British brewing community (don’t get me wrong, there are some incredible American Browns being produced here, they are just few and far between). The style itself tends to be a little higher in ABV than its British counterparts, hoppier and drier as well. The idea is to have a slightly hoppy well rounded beer with a strong malty backbone. I decided to put a small portion of dried bitter orange peel into the recipe as well to help balance out the malts and to add a bit of….something. It’s hard to explain why it is there because it is not at all apparent… but it would be noticeably different if I were to remove it.