American Pale Ale 15 Minute Cascade Pale Ale

[wcarter1227]

Recipe Type

Extract

Yeast

Notty

Yeast Starter

NOPE

Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter

NOPE

Batch Size (Gallons)

5.5

Original Gravity

1.055

Final Gravity

1.014

Boiling Time (Minutes)

15

IBU

36.1

Color

12 Copper to Red to Lt Brown

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

30 @ 65 degrees F

Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

7 days dry hop

Additional Fermentation

none

Tasting Notes

Nice hoppy aroma, piney citrusy hop flavor and aromas followed by a semi sweet malt

This is a very simple pale for a brewer of any level of experience. While I enjoy doing my All Grain beers, I still brew this beer from time to time. The plus is that you only have to boil the beer for 15 minutes and you are done. So we are looking at a 2 hour brew day including clean up with a wonderful tasting hoppy yet sweet caramel flavored pale ale. And since its extract and with such a big hop bill you only need to boil the extract for 15 MINUTES!

Pours a nice copper/reddish color with a 1 finger head that sticks around leaving a nice lacing down the glass.


Grain/Extracts

6lbs Light Dry Malt Extract added to the boil
1lbs Crystal 60 add the grains to the water and steep until the water temp reaches 170 and pull them out.

Hops

2.5oz Cascade 7.5% AA at 15 min
1oz Cascade 7.5%aa at 5 min
.50 oz Cascade 7.5% at flameout
1oz Cascade 7.5% dry hop 7 days after primary fermentation has wrapped up.


This beer is great with notty as I typically use notty on my beers I want to ferment on the cooler side. I imagine any clean fermenting yeast would do well. If you want some fruity esters I have done this recipe twice with s-04.

 

[cruckin78]

how long do you steep the grains with this?

 

[wcarter1227]

how long do you steep the grains with this?

I just updated the recipe notes. You want to add the grains to the water as soon as you turn on your burner and steep them until the water reaches 170 and pull them out.

 

[wcarter1227]

Just bottled another batch of this tonight. I dry hopped it this time with 2oz of cascade and it smells wonderful.

Wondering what this would be like with Citra hops? Ill keep experimenting and keep updating this thread.

 

[craigbrew]

how much water do you start with? do you start with the full volume or do you top up after?

 

[wcarter1227]

how much water do you start with? do you start with the full volume or do you top up after?

I do a full boil with this brew.

 

[ruggierm1]

I agree that this is a great recipe for a quick and simple brewday. I've brewed 2 batches of this with amarillo hops (that's what I had around), and both have turned out awesome. It's also a quick drinker. No extended aging necessary.

 

[cappy]

I think I'll make this tomorrow. Looks quick, easy and tasty.

 

[patrick524]

So do you start the boil with 5.5 gal of water? Or are you adding water at the end of the boil to reach OG?

 

[wcarter1227]

So do you start the boil with 5.5 gal of water? Or are you adding water at the end of the boil to reach OG?

i start with the full volume, with a 15 minute boil you are losing very little water due to boil off and also are getting a better hop utilization.

 

[patrick524]

Thanks. I haven't brewed in a while. Thanks for the help.

 

[wcarter1227]

1900 hits, anyone had good results with this like i have? i just cracked open a bottle from 6 months ago, still tastes just as great as when i first brewed it.

 

[cappy]

I bottled this about 2 weeks ago. Tasted great at bottling. I'll probably stick a few in the fridge today to test out.

 

[wcarter1227]

I bottled this about 2 weeks ago. Tasted great at bottling. I'll probably stick a few in the fridge today to test out.

glad you enjoyed it, post some picks if you can to see how yours came out.

 

[cappy]

I'll put some up later this week.

 

[togodoug]

If I use like 3 gallons for the boil, do I need to boil or steep longer? Any down side to boiling or up side to boiling a little longer?

 

[rbrittne]

This is a very simple pale for a brewer of any level of experience. While I enjoy doing my All Grain beers, I still brew this beer from time to time. The plus is that you only have to boil the beer for 15 minutes and you are done. So we are looking at a 2 hour brew day including clean up with a wonderful tasting hoppy yet sweet caramel flavored pale ale. And since its extract and with such a big hop bill you only need to boil the extract for 15 MINUTES!

Pours a nice copper/reddish color with a 1 finger head that sticks around leaving a nice lacing down the glass.


Grain/Extracts

6lbs Light Dry Malt Extract added to the boil
1lbs Crystal 60 add the grains to the water and steep until the water temp reaches 170 and pull them out.

Hops

2.5oz Cascade 7.5% AA at 15 min
1oz Cascade 7.5%aa at 5 min
.50 oz Cascade 7.5% at flameout
1oz Cascade 7.5% dry hop 7 days after primary fermentation has wrapped up.


This beer is great with notty as I typically use notty on my beers I want to ferment on the cooler side. I imagine any clean fermenting yeast would do well. If you want some fruity esters I have done this recipe twice with s-04.

Thanks for the recipe Carter! This looks awesome. Can I get this as a kit? or do you buy the ingredients individually? Im really really new...and not too familiar with ingredients and procedures... I could almost tase that picture you posted! Thanks again...

 

[heeler]

Finally brewed this recipe, my question is this, did anyone use a hop bag???
I did not and after the boil I strained out the softball sized hops leftovers. Should I have left the hops in the fermenter and strained out before bottleing? I hope I did'nt mess it up. Still it smelled great afterwords and it seems like a lotta hops, hoping for the best.

 

[heeler]

Finally made this recipe and hoping for the best, my question is this...
did anyone use a hop bag???? I did not and also did anyone strain out the leftover hop mass before adding to the fermenter????
It was a softball sized mass and after getting my beer in the fermenter and getting rid of the hops I went oh s**t should I have left all the in there???? I know the recipe calls for dry hops so it will have some more added but just hoping I did'nt ruin the final outcome.

 

[wcarter1227]

If I use like 3 gallons for the boil, do I need to boil or steep longer? Any down side to boiling or up side to boiling a little longer?

you would steep the same amount of time. If you change boil size you will have to adjust the hop schedule.

 

[wcarter1227]

Finally made this recipe and hoping for the best, my question is this...
did anyone use a hop bag???? I did not and also did anyone strain out the leftover hop mass before adding to the fermenter????
It was a softball sized mass and after getting my beer in the fermenter and getting rid of the hops I went oh s**t should I have left all the in there???? I know the recipe calls for dry hops so it will have some more added but just hoping I did'nt ruin the final outcome.

I didnt use a hop bag when I dry hopped or in the boil kettle. I just dumped everything straight in the fermenter. It will be just fine, you may have a cloudy beer at the beggining but that will settle out over time.

 

[wcarter1227]

Just took an update pic from a bottle that is about 6 months old. Still tastes damn good, has cleared up quite a bit. The hop nose has kind of gone away.

 

[Lgaddy44]

That's nice and simple. I've just recruited a new homebrewer, possibly two. I'll have to pass this recipe along to them, I'm sure it will be well received to a couple of new guys cutting their teeth. Thanks!

 

[heeler]

That's nice and simple. I've just recruited a new homebrewer, possibly two. I'll have to pass this recipe along to them, I'm sure it will be well received to a couple of new guys cutting their teeth. Thanks!

Gents, I made this and it's easy enough for a beginner is right After being in the primary for ten days I added 5 lbs of frozen strawberries but omitted the last addition of hops (dry hop cascades) just trying something different and hopping for the best. We'll just see what happens.

 

[heeler]

While bottling this the berry aroma was quite nice but the visual was a little yucky. The berries had a funky look about them ;( kinda off color and none too pretty????? Condition 2 weeks & see what we get!!!!!

 

[summerofgeorge]

I agree that this is a great recipe for a quick and simple brewday. I've brewed 2 batches of this with amarillo hops (that's what I had around), and both have turned out awesome. It's also a quick drinker. No extended aging necessary.

How long did you let it sit? The recipe has 30 days primary, 7 days secondary. I'm hoping for a quicker turnaround and wondered how long you aged it.

 

[togodoug]

This is a very simple pale for a brewer of any level of experience. While I enjoy doing my All Grain beers, I still brew this beer from time to time. The plus is that you only have to boil the beer for 15 minutes and you are done. So we are looking at a 2 hour brew day including clean up with a wonderful tasting hoppy yet sweet caramel flavored pale ale. And since its extract and with such a big hop bill you only need to boil the extract for 15 MINUTES!

Pours a nice copper/reddish color with a 1 finger head that sticks around leaving a nice lacing down the glass.


Grain/Extracts

6lbs Light Dry Malt Extract added to the boil
1lbs Crystal 60 add the grains to the water and steep until the water temp reaches 170 and pull them out.

Hops

2.5oz Cascade 7.5% AA at 15 min
1oz Cascade 7.5%aa at 5 min
.50 oz Cascade 7.5% at flameout
1oz Cascade 7.5% dry hop 7 days after primary fermentation has wrapped up.


This beer is great with notty as I typically use notty on my beers I want to ferment on the cooler side. I imagine any clean fermenting yeast would do well. If you want some fruity esters I have done this recipe twice with s-04.

I'm wondering why this is good in 15 min instead of an hour, any how a longer, say 30 min, boil would effect it?

 

[wcarter1227]

How long did you let it sit? The recipe has 30 days primary, 7 days secondary. I'm hoping for a quicker turnaround and wondered how long you aged it.

I only do long primaries of at least 30 days. I skip secondaries unless I am adding fruit. The first reason is that the yeast typically need a good 2 weeks after primary to clean up the nasty biproducts that they create during primary. Moving the beer off the yeast cake doesnt give the yeast a chance to clean up after themselves. Also the longer it sits the more clearer it will get as the yeast will compact and fall out of suspension.

I typically dry hop beers after primary fermentation is done. This beer fermented for 2 weeks, then i added the dry hops for 2 weeks all in the same bucket.

 

[wcarter1227]

I'm wondering why this is good in 15 min instead of an hour, any how a longer, say 30 min, boil would effect it?

This recipe was designed to be a quick turn around. With extract you are only really sanitizing the extract with the boil as the maltster has done a mash and conversion. Also with this recipe the hop amounts are upped a lot. If you were to do a longer boil you would want to adjust the hop amounts to compensate for that or you will end up with an extremely bitter beer.

 

[Tir727]

Less time to brew with 2 little ones running around the house. Anyway...

I've got two "15 Minute" batches going as we speak; one with 7.5/1.0lbs of LME/crystal, simcoe/centennial/glacier, WLP051 and the other with 8.25/1.0lbs of LME/caramunich, chinook/centennial/glacier, WLP041. I'm following advice from White Labs FAQs for WLP041 Pacific Ale and trying to keep fermentation around 65 degrees F.

I'll let you know how they turn out.