American Pale Ale 15 Minute Cascade Pale Ale

[ScotBrew]

Been meaning to do this one for a while now. Definitely going to do this in the next week or 2!

 

[dibrewzza]

I'll be brewing this up later with a partial boil. Definitely interested to try it because the ingredients are just extra stuff I've had lying around!

 

[nollie11]

Just tapped this last night. The hop
bill is VERY apparent but the sweetness of the malt balances it
out. The all-cascade profile makes this a simple, very drinkable beer!

 

[stonecutter2]

Brewed a half batch of this last night. The airlock fumes smell delightfully hoppy

Thanks for the recipe! Was looking for just this kind of thing for some easy brewing and drinking!

 

[dibrewzza]

Bottling this tomorrow. Took a gravity reading earlier and dang it's good

 

[CrookedTail]

Question for those who've brewed this using a partial boil: did you use a late extract addition (half at flameout)? How did it work out?

 

[dibrewzza]

I just put the dme in at 15. Worked perfectly fine for me. Boiled 3 gal, topped up to 5. After topping up I was right on with the OG

 

[CrookedTail]

I just put the dme in at 15. Worked perfectly fine for me. Boiled 3 gal, topped up to 5. After topping up I was right on with the OG

How was the bitterness of the final beer? Well-Balanced? Under-bittered?

 

[dibrewzza]

How was the bitterness of the final beer? Well-Balanced? Under-bittered?

I bottled it yesterday before work. This weekend is when I need it ready so I can tell ya then. Saturday to be specific. When I bottled though it seemed well balanced, though possibly over bitter compared to the malt. I love a hoppy beer though.

On a side note: I didn't follow the hop additions perfectly. I did
2oz @ 15
1 @ 5
1 @ flameout
2 oz dry hopped for 7 days

 

[dibrewzza]

Just cracked my first bottle after being bottled for 5 days. Not TOTALLY carbed. But I needed it for a football tailgate tomorrow morning and it's definitely ready. Turned out phenomenal. With the ease of making it, I can for sure say it will be brewed again very soon. Also extremely drinkable. Not too hoppy and has a perfect taste. I'd guess 37-40 ibu? I'm sure everyone at the party will love it. Definitely a great choice.

 

[stonecutter2]

Brewed a half batch of this last night. The airlock fumes smell delightfully hoppy

Thanks for the recipe! Was looking for just this kind of thing for some easy brewing and drinking!

Bottled this last night and snuck a sip - totally awesome! Very drinkable, well balanced between hops and malt. I can't wait until these carb up!!

Thank you again for the recipe, this is super easy and a keeper!

 

[rideincircles]

I bought my ingredients to make this again since it is my house beer, and I noticed last night that I closed the lid on the party tap and drained out my last half gallon into my keezer. This is after already losing a gallon from a party tap that was leaking earlier in this beers life. Will be making another batch this weekend. Not sure how I will change it up this time, but will probably change up the dry hop again. Been using citra and sorachi the last couple batches.

This will make my 4th batch of this recipe, but all of them are slightly different. Use 6 lbs light DME and 1 lb crystal 60 every time, Bry 97 and mostly Cascade in the boil with a different dry hop. Need to get some mosaic to try soon.

 

[stonecutter2]

I cracked a bottle of this last night, and it was a tasty Pale Ale. A tad more bitter than I'd expected after time in the bottle, but it was really good. I'll be sharing this on Thanksgiving for sure! And I'll be brewing another batch once this is all gone.

 

[Omahawk]

This sounded like fun so I brewed this 13 days ago, and modified it slightly to make it a 25 minute boil given the hops I had on hand. It's been a couple of years since I've done an extract batch OR used dry yeast. Remind me: is there any reason why this should need to sit in the fermenter longer than an all-grain or liquid yeast batch? I read the first few pages of content in this thread, and noticed 4 weeks in fermenter seemed typical.

My batches are all pretty much liquid yeast and all-grain, and with my process on lower gravity beers I'm typically done after 2-3 weeks. (usually raising the fermentation temp by day 4 or 5 when attenuation is pretty much done, then cold crashing by day 10 or 12 or so, adding drop hops if necessary, and then kegging somewhere between days 14 and 17.)

Just wondering if I've forgotten something since my extract and dry yeast days.

Thanks.

 

[ResumeMan]

No. There's no difference between all-grain and extract once the wort is out of the kettle (except that perhaps the extract wort may be less fermentable), and the fermentation profiles are the same for liquid or dry yeast (depending on the specific strain obviously).

I believe what you are seeing in this thread is the common current practice of leaving beer in the primary fermenter for a fairly long time to ensure that the yeast "clean up". But if you have normal success with shorter processing times on other beers, just do what you always do.

 

[Omahawk]

No. There's no difference between all-grain and extract once the wort is out of the kettle (except that perhaps the extract wort may be less fermentable), and the fermentation profiles are the same for liquid or dry yeast (depending on the specific strain obviously).

Thanks for reaffirmation. It's ready, so I'm cold crashing and will drop hop in the morning. Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[Omahawk]

I used a similar recipe and approach - 6 lbs light DME, 1 lb Munich malt, and 6.5 oz total cascades.

It took 7 days at near freezing, but the haze (yeast or dry hop - not sure which) finally cleared. Taste is every bit as good as my all-grain batches. US 05 did a nice job at 65 degrees.

 

[rideincircles]

Since I have been using BRY-97 with this, I end up having a day of lag time, followed by 5 days of fermentation then dry hop for 10-12 days and keg. Force carbing can have this drinkable in 3 weeks, but it improves with more carbonation time.

I will probably use S-05 next time to see how it compares to the BRY-97.

 

[sweed]

I brewed a 15 minute wheat pale Friday night after this recipe came out awesome earlier this year. I used centennial, citra, and a little amarillo for hops. Smells incredible fermenting.

 

[ScotBrew]

Made 2 5 gallon batches of this on Friday night. Can't wait to try it!

 

[Damoxemus]

I was lucky enough to receive a free kit from Brewer's Best (seen here) as part of a challenge for my local Homebrew club (Vanbrewer's). These kits were given to 5 or 6 "teams" to make for our February meeting. The only stipulations were we had to make 19 liters, use everything in the kit (though yeast could be substituted).

I figure that since most people were going to go all crazy and add tonnes of stuff (so I heard, anyhow) I'd do the exact opposite. Use a simple, basic recipe that took next to no time to make, so I made this!

Only differences are pretty minor, the grains were C-20 instead of 60, and my hop additions were thus:
2.5 oz cascade @ 15
1oz Citra @ 5
.5oz of Cascade @ flame out.

Left all the hops in while chilling (about 20 minutes).

Bry - 97 (rehydrated with wort).


Very stoked on this! The reviews sounds great, and I hope to add to them.


PS - thinking of dryhopping with either all Cascade since I'm getting more in bulk, but also am considering Amarillo/Simcoe.

 

[wcarter1227]

Glad that all enjoy this recipe. This by far was my best recipe I have brewed. I was really stoked to see you all were brewing this.

Thanks for the feedback and the updates to my recipe.

Warren

 

[stonecutter2]

I was lucky enough to receive a free kit from Brewer's Best (seen here) as part of a challenge for my local Homebrew club (Vanbrewer's). These kits were given to 5 or 6 "teams" to make for our February meeting. The only stipulations were we had to make 19 liters, use everything in the kit (though yeast could be substituted).

I figure that since most people were going to go all crazy and add tonnes of stuff (so I heard, anyhow) I'd do the exact opposite. Use a simple, basic recipe that took next to no time to make, so I made this!

Only differences are pretty minor, the grains were C-20 instead of 60, and my hop additions were thus:
2.5 oz cascade @ 15
1oz Citra @ 5
.5oz of Cascade @ flame out.

Left all the hops in while chilling (about 20 minutes).

Bry - 97 (rehydrated with wort).


Very stoked on this! The reviews sounds great, and I hope to add to them.


PS - thinking of dryhopping with either all Cascade since I'm getting more in bulk, but also am considering Amarillo/Simcoe.

I have some Citra and Cascade around, and had planned to do this too - going to use your additions and brew more of this today

I'm off to buy DME!

 

[Damoxemus]

I have some Citra and Cascade around, and had planned to do this too - going to use your additions and brew more of this today

I'm off to buy DME!

I just checked the gravity (1.010) and the hydro sample tasted awesome - nice grapefruity bitterness with a hint of that Jack Fruit (aka juicy Fruit gum) sweetness.

Very stoked on this. I am wondering how different it would have been with Crystal 60 instead of 20 though.


Also;

Could one do a "First Wort Hop" by adding some hops to the water at the same time as the steeping grains, or is there too little sugar coming from the crystal to make it worth it (no gravity = no isomerization)? I was thinking about it yesterday and if could increase the flavour without any real additional work/wait time, then it might be worth it. My throw some Warrior or maybe just more Cascade next time I try this.

 

[Kealia]

So...I'm thinking about jumping on the bandwagon and doing a 2.5G test batch.

But I want to replace the Cascade with Simcoe which is 13.00% AA versus the original 7.5% AA
Since I'm looking at 1/2 the recipe my thinking is:
1) 1/2 the amount of hops
2) 1/2 the amount of hops AGAIN because mine are double the AA of the original recipe

I'm left with something that looks like this for 2.5G:
3lbs light DME
1/2lb C60
1/2oz Simcoe (13%) - 15 minutes
1oz Amarillo (8.5%) - 5 minutes
1/2 Simcoe (13%) - flameout

I'll decide what to dry hop with after I nail this down. At work, on a conference call and trying to think this through.
BeerSmith shows me at 34 IBUs which is pretty close to the original.

Can somebody correct me or validate my thinking/numbers in case I am missing something easy here.

~Mahalo

 

[FatNerdBrewing]

So...I'm thinking about jumping on the bandwagon and doing a 2.5G test batch.

But I want to replace the Cascade with Simcoe which is 13.00% AA versus the original 7.5% AA
Since I'm looking at 1/2 the recipe my thinking is:
1) 1/2 the amount of hops
2) 1/2 the amount of hops AGAIN because mine are double the AA of the original recipe

I'm left with something that looks like this for 2.5G:
3lbs light DME
1/2lb C60
1/2oz Simcoe (13%) - 15 minutes
1oz Amarillo (8.5%) - 5 minutes
1/2 Simcoe (13%) - flameout

I'll decide what to dry hop with after I nail this down. At work, on a conference call and trying to think this through.
BeerSmith shows me at 34 IBUs which is pretty close to the original.

Can somebody correct me or validate my thinking/numbers in case I am missing something easy here.

~Mahalo

I'm going to try something similar as well. Doing a 2.5G batch with Centennial rather than Cascade. So I'm looking at this right now because I have all the below on hand:

3 lbs Light DME
1/2 lb C40
3/4oz Centennial (10%) - 15 mintues
1/2oz Centennial (10%) - 5 minutes
1/4oz Centennial (10%) - flameout
1/2oz Centennial - dry hop 7 days

San Diego Super yeast

We'll see how this turns out! Got a snow day coming tomorrow so I wanted something that I had supplies on hand for and that could be done in my kitchen without too much trouble.

 

[Kealia]

I decided to brew it straight-up (as originally posted) before trying any tweaks. That will give me a good baseline with which to tweak to my taste in the future.

It's fermenting now - albeit a 2.5G batch and not a full fiver.

 

[Damoxemus]

Cracked a bottle last night- deeeeelicious! The slight change with Citra was noticeable, but not overly do.

Great recipe, thanks again!

 

[notixx]

Is the 30 day primary needed with a simple ale like this??

 

[Kealia]

I'm saying "no".
I did a half batch (2.5G) and it was in primary for 13 days (including dry hop and cold crash). I carbed for two weeks, chilled for 2 days and tried one.

Crisp, clean and ready to go.
Mind you, I'm all over my ferment temps and pitch rates, but this turned around quickly.