Caribou Slobber Extract Beer Recipe Kit

Caribou Slobber is our Moose Drool clone, an American brown ale with layers of caramel, baking chocolate, and a hint of light-roast coffee. Goldings, Liberty, and Willamette bring enough hop character to keep the malt honest. The name’s questionable. Your taste in beer is doing just fine.

Brew five gallons of it with amber malt extract, specialty grains, and a trio of hops. A grain steep builds flavor and color before the extract goes in, so you can get your brown-ale fix without an all-grain setup.

Tasting Notes

• Aroma: Malty caramel with hints of chocolate and light-roast coffee.
• Appearance: Brown.
• Flavor: Layers of caramel, baking chocolate, and light-roast coffee balanced by a noticeable hop bite.
• Mouthfeel: Rounded and malt-forward, with a balanced finish.

Brewing Notes

• Style: American Brown Ale (BJCP 2021: 19C).
• Brewing Method: Extract with steeping grains.
• Batch Size: 5 gallons.
• Boil Time: 60 minutes.
• Fermentation Temp Range: 64–70°F.
• Approximate ABV: 5.2%
• Original Gravity: 1.052.
• Bitterness / IBU: Balanced bitterness with a noticeable hop presence.
• Beer Color / SRM: Brown.
• Time to Package: Approximately 3–6 weeks from brew day, after fermentation and conditioning are complete.
• Time to Enjoy: Approximately 4–8 weeks from brew day, including 1–2 weeks of bottle conditioning.

Brewing Overview: Steep the specialty grains for 20 minutes or until the water reaches 170°F, then remove the grain bag and stir in the malt extract off the heat. Follow the three hop additions through a 60-minute boil, then chill and top up to 5 gallons.

What Is Included

• 6 lb amber malt syrup and 1 lb amber dry malt extract.
• Specialty grains: 0.25 lb Briess Caramel 80L, 0.25 lb Fawcett Pale Chocolate, and 0.125 lb Black Malt.
• 1 oz US Goldings, 1 oz Liberty, and 1 oz Willamette hops.
• A mesh bag for steeping the grains.

Behind the Brew

The name is a wink at Moose Drool, the brown ale behind this clone recipe. Caramel, pale chocolate, and black malts build the layers of malt flavor, while Goldings, Liberty, and Willamette provide balance. Those chocolate and coffee notes come from the malt; there's no coffee or chocolate to add.

Prefer another brewing method or batch size? Explore the 5-gallon all-grain kit or the 1-gallon Caribou Slobber kit.