American Pale Ale Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale

[EdWort]

Looking mighty good tspilker. Hmmmm.

 

[c.n.budz]

I sampled my batch of this last night after 3 days in the keg. Very tasty. Light, crisp, with a nice hop aroma from the dry hopped cascade. Only problem I realized is that I forgot to use any Irish Moss in the boil so it's a little hazy but I'm hoping some more time in the keg will help it clear up a bit more.

 

[nghtmre4u]

Heres a pic from my second batch.Thanks Ed I love this stuff.

 

[wzup97]

Brewed my 4th batch of this in March, only this time dry hopped a half once of left over Cascade. Tasted it last night, Excellent, probably the best brew I have ever made.

 

[wedward]

This should be a required brew for all moving to AG! It was my third actual AG solo, and I brewed it mainly cause it was cheap, fast and easy, but also to get spent grains for some Irish bread on St. Paddy's.
So 3/13 - the night before my party I brewed this up AG 5.5 G version - minor tweaks. In primary at 1.065 at 65-75 F and left it (other than to show visitors what fermentation looks like). It stayed there for 37 days....
I got tired & lazy and was sure it was not going to be good. I took a reading and decided to rack it to a secondary carboy (1.012 FG). Tasted pretty good, so I continued with it.
Left it there again for about a week... Then racked to a keg and crash cooled at 38F. Let rest for 3 days then ran with pressure from keg to keg through a home made filter (whole house filter modded) and back in the keezer. About 72 hours at 30-40PSI for a force keg. Settled at 12 PSI afterwards and started tasting it (5/1). SWMBO LOVED it. Guests from work (also homebrewers) loved it too. Half keg now gone... may not make it to competition (work comp for fun).

Anyone even remotely curious about trying this beer should dive in as it is hard to screw it up. Also a testament to patience and time!

Prost Ed!

 

[Blindguardian]

I am also using this for my first all grain recipe, as a matter of fact I am heating my water as we speak.
Wish me luck

I hope mine turns out as great as everyone here's has turn out!

I do have a question:

How much priming sugar should I use to carbonate with? I am bottle carbonating and conditioning as I do not have the means to keg.

thanks

 

[Rick500]

There's a good priming sugar calculator here.

I'd carb an APA to about 2.4 volumes or so.

 

[MN_Jay]

After a winter hiatus I stepped back in the pool with this one yesterday, I'm anxious to see how it tastes compared to the first batch I did when I used S-05 and 2 month old unsealed crushed grain....although it was still mighty tasty.

 

[kice]

So I brewed this to be ready for last year (my son was born) and this was to be a celebratory beer =)

It was also my first step into AG. It didn't go well. I didn't do a very good job planning nor did I take the time to do anything right. I wasn't surprised when it was done that it was awful tasting and cloudy So the remainder of the bottles ended up in the back of fridge for a few months. Until this past weekend I pulled them out to dispose of them =(

I pulled them out of the fridge and looked inside the bottle. What used to be a cloudy mess was crystal clear - so I grabbed a glass. It was delicious! What the hell was I thinking? I learned a ton from brewing this beer. I revamped my brewing procedure, invested in some better equipment, and learned to not give up and be patient. I'm hooked. BREW THIS BEER YOU WON'T REGRET IT.

 

[Boodlemania]

Bottled my first batch, after 3 weeks in primary, this weekend. Only change was WLP001 subbed for Notty.

 

[Beau815]

i tasted 1st batch after 1 wk just to sample. My gravity was low at 1.041 but i may have gotten a bad reading i don't know. (did it in the kettle after chilled to what the floating therm read as 70 so added a point to bring to 1.042 as my temp was 70 not 60) anyways, it seems pretty bitter because i didn't hit 1.050-52. Not overly too bitter I ended up used to it after half a glass. I hope it mellows a bit after 2 more weeks. Anyone think it will?

 

[MgMt_Home_Brew]

yeah give it time it should mellow.

 

[masonsjax]

I tasted the hydrometer jar after 7 days and it was very bitter. Then I took another sample and tasted it at day 10. Wow what a difference a couple of days made. It was incredibly smooth and I couldn't believe it was the same beer. This was the first batch I ever made, but now I can't wait to taste it chilled, carbed, and more than a month old. I accidentally bought Safale 04 rather than 05, and mashed at about 151, but I expect it to be very tasty and I'll probably do this recipe again.

 

[khiddy]

I'm brewing this on Wednesday. All-Grain kit from Brewmaster's Warehouse. I can't wait, given the excellent reviews!

 

[MikeG]

I'm brewing this on Wednesday. All-Grain kit from Brewmaster's Warehouse. I can't wait, given the excellent reviews!

I'm looking forward to brewing this as my first AG too.

 

[CPooley4]

Brewed this over the weekend. Had a little trouble with keeping the Mash Tun warm enough, ended up at 1.0451 OG (63% efficiency). Is this going to cause a really hoppy beer? I'm fairly new to this and when I adjusted my efficiency the hoppiness meter went way up. Either way I'm still excited to get this into bottles since it's my second all grain batch.

I modified the recipe a bit to make the OG and IBU's line up for a 5 gallon batch using Hopville.com:

7 lbs Pale
1.5 lbs Vienna
1 lb Caramel 20L (had it at the house)

1 oz cascade 60 mins (5.9%)
1 oz cascade 30 mins (5.9%)
.5 oz cascade 15 mins (5.9%)
.5 oz cascade 5 mins (5.9%)

 

[khiddy]

I just put my first batch of this in the ale pail. I pitched a starter leftover from a previous ESB of Munton's Dry Yeast, figuring that since the Notty is a fairly neutral English yeast that the Munton's would be similar. I also had some Chinook leaf hops that a pro brewer friend gave me that I tossed in to the last aroma addition, looking to make it a tad more fragrant. Other than that, I can't wait to keg this in two weeks or so!

 

[nebben]

Any thoughts on using White Labs 810 (WL810) for this recipe when using AG?

 

[wfeddern]

Some friends and I brewed this yesterday. Last year we made some attempts at all grain that were somewhat unsuccessful, so this seemed great for our first brew of the year.

We doubled the recipe in order to get ~11 gal (basically just doubled all the amounts). Hit a OG of 1.054, and it is now in the fermentor with some US-05. Hopefully turns out as successful for us as the many others here.

Thanks for the recipe EdWort

 

[tspilker]

Every time I pop one of these open it is better than the last one...

I tried dry hopping a batch with .25 oz cascade. Lets hope it tastes just as good with the extra hop aroma!

 

[illin8]

I brewed this on Sunday and pitched around 7pm...by 7am had some activity, by noon it was going hog wild (bubbling like mad) and continued through monday night. Oddly enough, when I checked it yesterday it was down to 1 bubble every 4 secs or so and krausen had dropped...huh?...it's only been two days? Can't be...

 

[khiddy]

Ignore the airlock. It means NOTHING.

The yeast are dialed back, cleaning up after themselves, and finishing the job. Follow the original directions, let it ferment for at least 10 days, then take a hydro reading. The bubbles in the airlock mean NOTHING.

 

[illin8]

This I know...I was just surprised that the krausen had dropped within 48 hours of pitching. Strange.

 

[EdWort]

This I know...I was just surprised that the krausen had dropped within 48 hours of pitching. Strange.

Nottingham yeast is quite often finished with the major work in 24 hours. It's a machine. Be patient though, there is still cleanup work to be done. I always let my beers ferment 10 to 2 weeks before crash cooling.

 

[Displaced MassHole]

Did this one again but with 1.5 oz Cascade FWH 0.25 oz. Cascade at 15 min. and 0.25 oz. Cascade at 5 min.

Simply amazing, brought the bitterness down just a tad, but the hop flavor and aroma is ten fold better than before.

 

[Moose777]

I'll be brewing a second batch next week and wondered if it would be better to pour the wort right on to the yeast cake from my first batch or just go with new yeast?

 

[Beau815]

Brewing this for my second AG. I brewed it for my 1st Ag too but terrible efficiency. This time will hope to hit 1.050 at min and if not bought a pound of extra light dry malt in case so I dont end up with a bitter 3.8% beer again. This was my 1st AG also, and thought I followed what I read in books and on here but somewhere something went wrong. Wish me luck!

 

[maho]

This one takes the prize for fastest 5G batch to disappear....

Everybody loves it, the wife, all the relatives that normally are wine'ers. Even I like it although it is a little "light" but with the hot days we have right now.

And the darn thing just keeps getting better and better until it is all gone, and you sit there wishing you had more....

Got to get that extra batch going as the keg is getting might light, really fast.

 

[nyer]

I just kegged this and it came out bad, really bad. It tastes like soap. It was good after primary but bad after secondary. I'm thinking maybe I didn't rinse the secondary carboy good enough,

 

[Mustangj]

leave it in the keg don't dump it.. Give some time.