American Pale Ale BBD Brewing Kabe's Secret APA

[Bosium]

Balls! Seems Honey Malt is not available in the UK. Is there any substitution that would actually get me there or is it a lost cause? Don't think importing a pound of malt is really an option :-/

 

[KingBrianI]

Keg that yet?

The plan is to do it tonight. It's been dry-hopping for almost as long as you did yours! All the hops finallysunk down enough for the ones that were rafting on top to get wet.

 

[humann_brewing]

I got a 1lb of honey malt randomly on my last order figuring I would use it eventually. I think this may be the recipe. I have everything for this in my inventory too, it must be a sign

 

[ChshreCat]

I got a 1lb of honey malt randomly on my last order figuring I would use it eventually. I think this may be the recipe. I have everything for this in my inventory too, it must be a sign

The beer gods have spoken!

dunno of a sub for honry malt. there must be SOME where you can find it?

 

[ChshreCat]

Gonna be brewing this again in a few weeks to have it fresh and ready for NHC!

 

[ChshreCat]

Got this mashing as we speak.

 

[KingBrianI]

Got this mashing as we speak.

And I'm drinking one as we speak! It's really coming around now.

 

[ChshreCat]

Hey, I just realized I didn't put the mash temp in the recipe so I added that in now. What temp did you mash yours at?

 

[ChshreCat]

And it's in the bukkit!

 

[KingBrianI]

I think it was 150. I'm too lazy to run upstairs to look at the computer with beersmith.

 

[ChshreCat]

Ahh, that would've came out a little less sweet than mine.

 

[Dog House Brew]

So did you do a PM again or did you go AG? If you did go AG what was the recipe you used?

 

[ChshreCat]

PM. I don't have facilities to do a full boil. I used the exact same recipe.

Wouldn't be too hard to convert the extract to some more 2-row to make it an AG recipe though. No need to adjust the hops since the wort gravity would be about the same.

 

[Dog House Brew]

10/4 Sounds like it is a good brew. I like Honey malt

 

[ChshreCat]

The honey malt really does nice things in this beer. Goes well with the two hops, I think.

If you can get the pacman yeast, definitely use that. I used it again with this batch and it's chuggin' away. I used starsan in my airlock and the last two days when I checked on it there was a nice tower of foam standing up above the airlock.

 

[152Sumo]

I would like to make this beer, or something similar. The only problem is that I am somewhat of a beginner and would like to do an extract recipe (with steeping grains). Do any of you have a recommendation for an extract recipe that will get me close to this? I tried Mighty Arrow recently and fell in love. Thanks

 

[ChshreCat]

Not sure if you could cut this down that far without changing the end product, unless you can find some Vienna malt extract.

If you can steep grains, you can do a partial mash, trust me! Give it a shot and you'll see! The only difference is that you measure your water better and mind the temperature closer. If you wanted to make this one a bit easier, you could convert the pale malt to more LME and that would cut the grain bill down to 4 lbs, making it a little easier to manage thought you'd be stretching the Vienna's enzymatic power a tad bit. If you add the extra LME at the start of the boil, and save the rest for the end as the recipe calls for, it'll help keep your hop utilization the same.

 

[152Sumo]

Thanks. I will probably give it a shot when I get all my gear in order.

 

[ChshreCat]

Just finally got to bottle this tonight. I have a little under 2 weeks before I'll be dropping it off for NHC. Hope it carbs in time. I'm ramping the heat up a touch where I'm storing it to try to hurry it along.

 

[pivovar]

I made a half-size batch of this (2.5 gallons). I didn't have any Amarillo hops, so used all Cascades. Also, for my water I used 50% tap 50% RO + 3/4 tsp CaCl2, since my tap water is quite hard with high level of sulfates and most beers end up tasting harshly bitter if I don't use any treatments. With these changes do you think it will be close?

 

[ChshreCat]

Don't know about the water part, but the cascades will give it a little bit of a different aroma and flavor, but it should still be quite tasty! The amarillo hops really come through in this one, but it'd be good with all cascades too. Just slightly different.

 

[ToddO]

Ok - cracked a few of these tonight while bottling Ed's Apfelwein. Nice beer. I can see why you were awarded with this one. Lots of flavor and decent ABV makes this a great sessioner over here. Thanks for the recipe! I recommend it. I'll only do PMashes from here out so this is a nice recipe to branch out on since I'm only brewing APA's of IPA's these days. Stoked to have a few 12'ers of this for the next couple of weeks.

Cheers!

 

[ChshreCat]

Glad you liked it. I'm a little worried about my most recent batch. Tastes a little funny. Not quite sure yet if it's just green or has an off flavor, but I send it to NHC anyway.

 

[ChshreCat]

Just tried another one. The odd flavor is gone. I was hoping it was just green. Hopefully the bottle I submitted for NHC cleans up just as well. This one had a week out of the fridge that one didn't have.

 

[EarthBound]

I brewed this a few months ago. I cracked the keg open May 1st, and it was cashed by last night. That was the fastest I've gone through 5 gallons. Therefore, excellent job on the recipe. Thanks for posting it, bro. Cheers!

 

[floyd242]

I just cracked my first bottle of this open last week and tried it, it was great! Only my second brew ever, I think I'm going to buy another fermenting bucket and go ahead and make another batch this week. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[floyd242]

Just tried this again last night and ended up drinking a 6pack. This is only my second brew and I may be biased since I brewed it, but damn it's some tasty stuff. I fermented at 74deg (the temp of my basement) with Notty and there are no off flavors that I can taste after just 2 weeks in the bottle. I would recommend this to any newb looking to do their first partial mash.

 

[EarthBound]

I brewed it again, except all-grain this time. I cracked the keg open last night, and it's a homerun. Several people have told me this is their favorite beer that I've made so far. Friday night will be a good night because of Kabe's Secret! BTW, we're definitely a couple of SW nerds for knowing who Kabe is...

 

[ChshreCat]

BTW, we're definitely a couple of SW nerds for knowing who Kabe is...

hehe while I AM a SW nerd and know of the Cantina regular... in this case Kabe is my dog. He's the one with the secret associated with this beer.

 

[Bosium]

... Kabe is my dog. He's the one with the secret associated with this beer.

Dog hair in the mash, á la Tasty McDole?