American Pale Ale Dale's Pale Ale

After brewing this 2x I woould say it is a beer that needs to age a bit to mellow out. I think it is best at about the 2 month mark especially when dry hopping.

Does anybody have an extract recipe for dales pale ale or Tommy knocker pick axe pale ale??? Eventually I want to move on to all grain but I'm not there yet

I really taste summit hops as flavor profile in Dale's -- does anyone else think this would be a good addition? I think I would try either recipe #1 or #2 here but add some SUmmit at 30 minute mark.

I made this recipe converting it accurately (from the first recipe) to a BIAB partial grain recipe - spcialty grains as they are, base of mostly 2 row with remainder made up with DME. I think it is a bit too sweet without enough of a nutty flavor. Anyone else who brewed this feel this way?

Anyone ever do the BYO recipe of this beer? It was in an issue a couple years back with Russian River Vinny on the cover. As I recall, the grain bill there was MO and Carahell with 1.25 oz Northern Brewer, some Columbus, Cascade and Centennial.

Hey, I just started doing a little research on a Dale's Clone and found another recipe from a guy named Craig who says he was the one who had the homebrew recipe that they used to make the original Dale's from (at least) 98'-02'.

The thread can be found here

This is one of his final posts(for 6bbl I believe):
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Here's an extract from my old spreadsheet - can't remember if I posted this before or not. It's rough - but kids, this is how I brewed Dale's when it first hit the faucets in Lyons - grain is in pounds +means number of minutes into a 90 minute boil - you'll figure out the rest I'm sure.
Dale's Pale Ale

1.062

Pale 330 432 216
SMC 30 50
Munich 26
SMC 20 26


Northern Brewer [email protected] +10 34.69230769 @7.8
Cascade 20 oz +65
Breakbright 50g +75
Columbus 15 oz +80
Centennial 32 oz +89

Lemme know if you like that Scotch Ale, I can help you out I'm sure...

Sadly, I personally think Oskars is on the downslide - the Corporate push has completely killed the "family" ideals of old.
But good beer is for the people, and I am ALL about that!
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From that I figure for a 5.5 gal batch:

12# Marris Otter
1.5# C30
.75# C20
.75# Munich

2 oz Nothern Brewer @80 min
.6 oz Cascade @25 min
.5 oz Columbus @10 min
1 oz Centennial @1 min

Anyway, thought I would throw that in there. Sorry to add another recipe in to one that already has 2 in it. I haven't brewed it but will do so soon. Take it as you will. If it's legit I thought it would be kinda cool.

75 pounds of munich?

Sorry, I guess I should have put 0.75 or 3/4.

No worries, I figured you meant as much. But 75 pounds of Munich would make for a significantly different batch.

Bringing this beast back from the dead, anyone report on any of the 3 recipes listed in here?

It looks like numero uno is the winner from the feedback.

Brewed #1 two weeks ago. I'll report back in a month or so.

I brewed the recipe I posted but changed a couple things. I did:

11# MO
1 1/2# Munich
3/4# C20
3/4# Caramunich I

I should have stick to the 12# MO

The hop additions I changed the first three to 0.75 oz and left the last at 1oz. My IBU was a bit over 40.

It was similar to Dales but not exact. In my opinion it was better than Dales.

I haven't tried the first so I can't speak for that one.

Did a 3 gallon all grain version of this yesterday, so I will report on the taste when it's done! Might have a few more IBUs, and my OG was a couple point high, but I think it'll be good

There is no dry hopping? I definetly get a decent nose fron this beer, enough to think there maybe some additions at flameout or dry hop. Hmmmm, brewing it tomorrow might just add some columbus as dry hop after 7 days.

Doing an 11 gal batch (recipe 1) next weekend.

The 4 day keg conditioned sample is good. 10 more days to open season on this batch.

I brewed Recipe #1 on April 17th. I used S-O5 for yeast, mashed at 152. It went from 1.069 to the final gravity of 1.107. I had 83% efficiencies. With all of that being said, I scored a 6-pack of Dale's Pale Ale and 4 of us compared the two, while brewing. Everyone liked the homebrew better than the "real thing". Very nice - not much I would change.

I brewed a 5 gal PM version based closely on #2

6 lb Golden Light DME
1.5 lb Munich 10
1 lb C15
1 lb C40

1 oz Northern Brewer @60
2 oz Cascade @ 20
1 oz Columbus @10
1 oz Centennial at flameout

US-05

Tried it pre-bottled and with a Dale's Can. Color was spot on, malt and hops very similar, but hard to really tell at this point. Looking forward to trying this in a couple weeks

I know this is an old thread, but today I'm brewing a christmas Barleywine. I am making a 5gal batch and the ingredients are very similar to DPA. I live here in CO and love this beer, so I bought some Muntons DME and am going to keep sparging the barleywine grains (so much grain for a 5 gal) and mix up to the right OG, then follow the 1st hop schedule and see what happens. I'll be using US-05 yeast, since I always have some around. Wish me luck and I will keep you posted.
-JT
PS. I've had DPA from the brewery and they think that it should be drank withing 30 days of bottling/kegging, so you don't loose any of the hop aroma. I agree with them!

I brewed niquejim's recipe last week at my homebrew club's first Big Brew Day at a local brewery. (We had a nice write up in a local paper, and then had a reporter from another, slightly bigger, local paper attend our monthly meeting and interview a few of us). This was my first 10 gallon batch with new pots, it was pretty cold and I was in a bit of a rush because I was teaching and we got a late start. Needless to say, I screwed up pretty bad: when I mashed in and checked the temperature I was shocked when I was only at 140*f. I didn't have enough headroom in my rectangular cooler to top off with boiling water so I though a quasi-concoction mash might help. I drained off a gallon or two of wort, heated it up to about 200+ and put it back into the mash tun and crossed my fingers, anticipating I'd hit high on the ABV.

The yeast were slow to start but then developed a nice krausen. Six days later and I still have a very thick, frothy "head"/krausen on top. My OG was 1.071 (and I was shooting for 1.058 according to BeerSmith). Four days later I was down to 1.014; five days I was at 1.010; today (six days out) I'm still dropping to 1.088 (clocking in at 8.3 ABV, so far).

Samples from my refractomer eyedropper taste nice, and surprisingly still a bit sweet (I was expecting it to be bone dry).

Krausen @ day 1:


Krausen @ day 2:


Any thoughts about the long-lasting krausen or is this just CO2 foam? Any guesses how low the gravity is going to drop?

recipe 1 currently in progress. will update when finished

is 1272 able to get this beer down to 1.012 (recipe #1)? 1272 has an attenuation of 70-75. My calculation shows that 1.060 to 1.012 is about 80% attenuation.

I am boiling this recipe now. Thanks for posting!

bnilguy said:

I brewed a 5 gal PM version based closely on #2

6 lb Golden Light DME
1.5 lb Munich 10
1 lb C15
1 lb C40

1 oz Northern Brewer @60
2 oz Cascade @ 20
1 oz Columbus @10
1 oz Centennial at flameout

US-05

Tried it pre-bottled and with a Dale's Can. Color was spot on, malt and hops very similar, but hard to really tell at this point. Looking forward to trying this in a couple weeks

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Brewed this recipe months ago and it was PHENOMENAL! Just wanted to give a thumbs up to bnilguy! DPA is one of my favorite beers.

I recently started BIAB. So gonna use the 5.5g AG recipe above soon. Thanks for this thread everyone.


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Recipe 1, grain bill acquired. This will be my next brew. Maybe even tomorrow if I finish converting the kettles to electric this afternoon.

I need to get some very approachable beer in the pipeline behind my blonde ale, and this should be perfect.

gonna brew recipe 1 tonight!

Recipe 1 in secondary. Will be kegging 5 gals and bottling 5 gals this weekend. After that, 7-10 days to carbonate so probably ready to drink 11/10.

So far the hydrometer tastes have been very nice! Will report further after the 10th.

I have recipe 1 in primary fermenting vigorously at 65f. I will update as I go along too

I just brewed recipe 1 tonight. Beer is good do you have an update on how yours turned out?

hopzicle said:

I just brewed recipe 1 tonight. Beer is good do you have an update on how yours turned out?

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Ok, it took me awhile to find this. I think I was confused. I called mine "American pale ale" and I used slightly different hops, I think I did not want to buy more hops. Anyway it came out great, I already drank it all

I forgot to update here. I will remember next time... I used mosaic hops so it tasted kind of fruity and not how I was expecting, but it was still good.

sgraham602 said:

is 1272 able to get this beer down to 1.012 (recipe #1)? 1272 has an attenuation of 70-75. My calculation shows that 1.060 to 1.012 is about 80% attenuation.

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I couldn't get it down to 1.012. It was sitting at 1.028 for several weeks and I repitched and warmed it up a bit and got it down to 1.022 but no futher. It's been sitting another two weeks and I'm going to let it go until Sunday and then Keg it.