American Pale Ale Coldwater 420 - Special Pale Ale

Oh, but I should add that IMHO, I cannot imagine this without cascades, but I am sure your beer will be great without it.

 

I definitely love cascade but am looking to use up these hops. Hoping I don't regret the sub. I can always brew it again with cascades as I have them on hand too.

 

Well, keep us posted. I love cascades too, but getting burnt out on them. Would love to change it up and keep this grain bill. As I have posted before, I have never had the sweetwater, so can't speak to the accuracy of the clone. So I am not concerned about being true to the original. But it makes a Damn fine pale that I will use a a base for other pales or ipas, so your experiments are of interest to me !

 

The last time I made this, my second attempt, turned out Awesome! I'm drinking a beer right now, bottled from keg, over 100 days ago and I'm in love. I had a couple sitting around and after having this tonight I'm ready to brew another lighter beer.

Here's my recipe:

Sweetwater part deux

Dingemans aromatic malt
Strong malt lb -20 - .5 oz

Dingemans Pilsen malt
LB 1.2 - .5 oz

Steep 30 mins

6 lb DME extra light

Centennial Type - 1 oz - 60 mins
Cascade - 1.5 oz - 30 mins
Cascade - 1.5 oz - 5 mins

OG 1.055

Safale S-05 gen 2

Kegged 11/29
FG 1.012

ABV 5.7%


I think I'm going to bring it back but all grain this weekend.

 

Newb here... is this an extract/ steep method? I've been looking around for a good extract + steep for Sweetwater 420. Thanks for any help!

 

So I made a PM/extract version of this totally off the wall.

But it tastes JUST like 420. Here it is

5lbs Pils DME

10oz Munich
6oz Crystal 20l
8oz Carapils


60 minute boil
1oz magnum

20 minutes left
1oz cascade

10minutes left
1oz cascade

Yeast
wyeast 1028 london ale

Let it sit in the fermenter at about 68 degrees for 3 weeks, kegged it and drank it all gone in about a week O.O

 

I've really been wanting to make this one as I can't get 420 often down here in Southern CA. I think my girlfriend would kill me if I made another Pale Ale right now though haha *bookmarked*

 

I made an attempt at this. Sweetwater 420 is my favourite pale ale but i cant get a hold of it in sweden. Tried the coldwater 420 yeaterday and i mustve made some misstakes. First of it was sweet. And secondly the color was off. I get that problem with all my beers. They get this ugly brown color. Why is this?
My OG was 60 and FG was 10 after 17 days primary.

 

This may be what my next brew day will produce! I love me some 420 and just got some more 2-row. Now I just need the Munich, et al (I have the hops and yeast already) from the LHBS and, BOOM! Tasty brew for me and you... Lol


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I got a friend thats in town for 3 months and he loves 420, anyone brew the AG version and how did it turn out?

 

Ive made three different attempts at this beer, done small changes everytime and it just gets better and better( im becoming a better brewer i guess).
It becomes a really tasty pale ale with just pilsnermalt, vienna and carapils(I dont have light munich, just regular munich and it messed up the color). At the latest batch i had gotten a bit sick of the cascades so i made it with 50/50 centennial and citra and that was great aswell but with the cascades it gets closer to the original.

 

I drink this on the regular. They sell it at my local flash foods along with SNPA. Its danky for sure its got something in it besides cascade that pulls that dank weed smell out.

 

In order to do a 5 gallon batch, would you recommend just cutting the original recipe in half? It seemed close to a 10 gallon batch. Thanks. Still trying to figure out the recipe stuff instead of the biab stuff.

 

I know this is an old thread but I will be brewing this weekend. I tried Sweetwater at a brew pub in NOLA and i liked it alot. Unfortunately I cannot get in the stores so i'm hoping this one comes close.

 

Brewed this weekend. Preboil OG was 1.055/ post boil OG was 1.075. This is 12 points higher than it should have been. Double checked my grain and water and all was good. Not sure why I didn't hit my numbers.

 

Fellas...have a freezer full of homegrown cascade and this recipe was next in line. However, local homebrew supply store doesn't carry caraaroma. What can/should a dude substitute? Some sort of mid-range crystal? Charts say c120 but that seems excessive...thoughts?

 

From the Weyermann description:

Very dark caramel malt with aromatic properties. Adds deep red color and aroma. Amber ales, dark lagers, bocks. Substitute for Belgian Special B or 120L caramel malts.

EBC: 300-400
Lovibond: 110-150
Usage: to 15%
Moisture:: 4.5-7.0%
Total nitrogen:: 10.5-12.5%
Extract% (dry basis): 74-79
Soluble Nitrogen Ratio: N/A

 

a number of the bars here have 420 on tap , and I drink it fairly often . Personally, I think the Sweetwater 420 is dry hopped. Something like 1oz for 10 gallons for at least 7 days

 

They now have this info on their webpage:

Grains – Munich, 40L, 2-Row

Hops – Centennial, Cascade

 

Stone got lots of "dank" out of their first version of Ruination using Centennial only. 420 has both Cascade & Centennial, so I am betting it's that.