All-Grain - Cascades / Orange Pale Ale - Page 31

**MacBruver** · 03-01-2010, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by blacklab

That brewpot is sweet! I'm working with a 10 gallon right now. I need to get a larger one so I can do 10 gallon batches.

The picture doesn't really do it justice- I can almost get inside the thing it's so big in diameter. I actually bought it at a swap meet... there was a guy there selling huge tamale pots, but he also had some stainless ones. Of course they have no idea how many gallons it holds, so I had to actually get out my tape measure and calculator.

MeanGreen · 03-02-2010, 08:13 PM

This was my first attempt at AG back in Dec. faulty thermometer had me miss the mash temp. Went in at over 165. So I made the best smelling 3.1 beer around

Going to attempt again on Friday, but running low on Cascade so going to mix in some Citra. Any thoughts?

**MacBruver** · 03-08-2010, 06:11 AM

Ok I think this is the best beer I've ever made. Combination of a good recipe, and finally getting my all grain setup nailed down. I'm going to be kegging this one after 3 weeks in primary, I'll post back again after that to report on how the amount of zest worked out.

rickstar1970 · 03-10-2010, 06:54 PM

Mine came out great. Kegged it. Neighbors liked it. I used real oranges since in my neighborhood we have so many we cant give them away(Glendora, CA). Used a potato peeler to get the outermost part of the skin with barely any white. I used a darker caramel 60L, but still came out great. I concur its a nice balance of orange and cascade hop flavor. Thanks for the Recipe.

**ThatGuyRyan** · 03-11-2010, 05:03 PM

Mine is still young but I pulled a pint last night and strong hop and coriander maybe just a bit too much coriander with just a hint of orange. It did have way more orange flavor before I dry hopped it. But again it has only been on the gas for a week so once the hops mellow out hopefully more of the orange will come back. Still a great beer.

blacklab · 03-16-2010, 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MeanGreen

This was my first attempt at AG back in Dec. faulty thermometer had me miss the mash temp. Went in at over 165. So I made the best smelling 3.1 beer around

Going to attempt again on Friday, but running low on Cascade so going to mix in some Citra. Any thoughts?

I recently made an IPA with 100% Citra that I was very happy with. Very fruity, perhaps even stronger than Cascades. Should be great!

ILOVEBEER · 03-23-2010, 12:56 AM

Just carbonated the keg for my second batch. I used 6oz of raw orange zest I got from 9 oranges and threw them in at the 60 min boil to extract the most out of the orange zest.
I'll let you guys know how it turned out.

hoppheadIPA · 03-24-2010, 04:09 PM

I'm wanting to brew this real bad, but thinking of only using half the amount or corriander. Last time I used that in a saison, it was too spicy for a few months before it mellowed out. I'm also going half cascade and half citra for dry hops. I'm calling it "Citra Blast Orange Pale Ale". Hope it turns out good. What's going to be the difference if i used -05 as opposed to -04?

ILOVEBEER · 03-24-2010, 05:26 PM

HoppheadIPA,

Honestly you cant even taste the coriander.....at all (atleast I cant).

Wild Duk · 03-25-2010, 01:04 PM

I just poured a pint of this brew. I brewed it 2/21 and used 1.75 oz. of fresh orange zest. It was about 10 medium size oranges, not sure what type. To be honest, the beer is good, really good hop flavor, but I don't taste any orange in there at all. I put the zest in with 5 mionutes remaining.......Anyone else have this problem using fresh zest. Maybe It wasn't in the boil long enough????

The beer is still very good though.....