American Pale Ale Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale

[Jbt]

I got everything to make my 3rd batch of this over the weekend. Last night I noticed that they gave me Briess Pilsner instead of 2 row is this going to make much difference??
Thanks

 

[rvbrewer]

This was my first all grain and it turned into my best beer yet. Although I have horrible efficiency... A 4 gallon batch has pleased everyone who has tried it!

 

[Token]

Whops. I brewed this up on Sunday as an extract (half batch/ 2.5 gal) and ended up with an OG at 1.057. Should I add water to it? How much? When? Or should I not worry too much about it?

Thanks.

 

[tdjb]

For those of you that used the pre-built recipe at Brewmasters Warehouse, did you just follow the same hope schedule from the original recipe? I ask because I noticed the hops from Brewmasters Warehouse were 5.4% AA but the original recipe was using 6.6% AA hops.

Will the lower AA's make a big difference?

 

[mullimat]

About to brew up my 3rd or 4th batch of this (I forget how much i've brewed of it so far). Unfortunately the LHBS up here in Fairbanks kinda had a suffering inventory (they said they ordered more stuff) so I had to substitute Pale Malt for the 2 row and Amarillo hops for cascade hops. Hope it turns out pretty comparable.

 

[Omegagodly]

good easy recipe, decided to do this as my first ever batch and all grain attempt. went very solidly. cant wait to taste it!

 

[DavidSteel]

Just brewed this two-ish weeks ago. Going home to dry-hop it this weekend. It's going to be dry-hopping for 2 weeks, so I'm thinking I should only need .25-.5 oz. Sound about right?

Edit: I'd like to add that I got 1.060 (86% efficiency) on my brew. Almost my highest yet (the brew I did the day after I brewed this got 87% lol)

 

[Hugh_Jass]

For those of you that used the pre-built recipe at Brewmasters Warehouse, did you just follow the same hope schedule from the original recipe? I ask because I noticed the hops from Brewmasters Warehouse were 5.4% AA but the original recipe was using 6.6% AA hops.

Will the lower AA's make a big difference?

Just checked this thread......

The AA makes the largest difference at the bittering add. Maybe up the 60 to compensate for the lower AA and reduce the 30 min.

I brew a similar recipe and have been FWHing and skipping the 60 min add altogether.

My schedule for a 10 gallon batch goes something like:

2 oz FWH
2 oz 10
2 oz 5
2 oz 1
and .5 oz dry hop

 

[MilwaukeeBrewGuy]

Just brewed this two-ish weeks ago. Going home to dry-hop it this weekend. It's going to be dry-hopping for 2 weeks, so I'm thinking I should only need .25-.5 oz. Sound about right?

I dry hopped for 2 weeks with about .75 oz and it was great. Maybe just a touch on the high side. I would do .50 oz next time i think just to put more focus onto that wonderful malt character.

 

[inspector13]

Just popped the cap on the first bottle. This is a very nice beer. Thanks Ed

Cheers

 

[valicious]

I'm brewing this right now (literally, grain is mashing now)-

I've always been a bit confused on cold crashing. When do I toss it in the freezer? When it's it the secondary? How long?

 

[philrose]

I'm brewing this right now (literally, grain is mashing now)-

I've always been a bit confused on cold crashing. When do I toss it in the freezer? When it's it the secondary? How long?

weeks from now.

When your fermentation is done and you're ready to rack the beer, pop it in the fridge for 6+ hours. Rack into a bottling bucket and transfer to your serving vessel(s) of choice.

If you've got 2 weeks of primary (or even less) you can skip the secondary. Do things by taste if you're concerned. Eventually you wont be.

 

[valicious]

weeks from now.

When your fermentation is done and you're ready to rack the beer, pop it in the fridge for 6+ hours. Rack into a bottling bucket and transfer to your serving vessel(s) of choice.

If you've got 2 weeks of primary (or even less) you can skip the secondary. Do things by taste if you're concerned. Eventually you wont be.

Thanks for the help.

Let me make sure I have this straight-

Primary for 2 weeks
pop in fridge for 6+ hours (cold crash)
rack into keg, then stick in my keezer for a month or so

 

[philrose]

Thanks for the help.

Let me make sure I have this straight-

Primary for 2 weeks
pop in fridge for 6+ hours (cold crash)
rack into keg, then stick in my keezer for a month or so

Should be good, I like to rack into a bottling bucket to minimize trub in the keg.

 

[jgilbreth]

Due to the apparent great popularity of this beer, I picked it for my first all grain brew. Overall I think it went mostly OK, but I had these issues:

My main boiling kettle could only handle about 5 gallons, so I boiled the remaining 1.5 or so on the stove at the same time in a separate pot. I added the first hops to the main kettle, and tossed a few into the smaller one. By the second hops addition, I had boiled off enough to put it all in the big kettle.

Ended up with only 4.5 gallons in the fermenter when all was said and done. I boiled outside and it was mid 40's today, but 2 gal of loss seemed like a lot. Left a little in the kettle when I poured it out, but it was mostly trub. Had an OG of about 1.045 (recipe calls for 1.051).

I'm not worried about the volume, or gravity too much, but is there something I should watch for when fermenting and bottling due to the deviations?

Oh yeah, I hit my mash temps right on, only lost 1 degree during the hour mash, and hit the sparge temps too. Online calculators telling me my brewhouse efficiency was about 60%.

 

[Dynachrome]

You did better than me. Mine went all kinds of sideways. Too hot a mash, waited 23 hours to reboil and hop. It was awkward. I did everything at the last minute. Built my mash tun and crushed the grain. I was poorly prepared. I bet you get some really good tasting beer BTW.

Good luck.

 

[Espi]

just finishing up... missed my mash temp... realized the valve was open on my mash tun. opened it to drain my pre heat water.. I wasn't sure how much I had lost and was a bit hot..

I added some room temp water and ended up about 4 deg to cool.. guh not a good brew day.

i think i made beer though.

next month will tell

 

[jgilbreth]

You did better than me. Mine went all kinds of sideways. Too hot a mash, waited 23 hours to reboil and hop. It was awkward. I did everything at the last minute. Built my mash tun and crushed the grain. I was poorly prepared. I bet you get some really good tasting beer BTW.

I had a short brew day (had to be done before noon) so I had the mash tun built, leak checked, all the ingredients and equipment primed and ready to go the night before. I usually try to keep as organized as possible, and this was my first all grain so I really wanted to avoid any suprises. I did pretty good, started heating mash and strike water at 7 am, everything in the fermenter, cleaned up and put away by 11:30.

Fermenting away like crazy too! Looking forward to this one.

 

[cheesecake]

Going to keg my 2nd batch of this. everyone loved the first one so its now my go to beer.

 

[LKHA]

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[DavidSteel]

So, I ended up getting 86% efficiency and only got about 5.2 gallons after I racked to my bucket. OG was 1.060 FG was 1.011. Came out at 6.4%. Wonder how much different this will be from the original. Next time I'll have to make sure to take into account my efficiency in the recipe, lol.

 

[knownikko]

Just gave this a try for my first AG recipe. Things went great and I hit the OG right on, 1.052.

Realized after I got home that the Cascade hops I bought were not as potent as those used in the original recipe (5.4% AA vs 6.6% AA quoted in the recipe), so I added ~1/4oz of magnum hops that I had laying around to the bittering add in order to get back up to the estimated 39 IBU.

Pitched a packet of notty about 10 minutes ago, here's hoping for the best!

 

[kappclark]

Picked up my first shipment of bulk grains and hops...just finished crushing the ingredients for what will be another excelent Haus Pale Ale.

Used Schmidling Malt mill for first time - what a breeze.

One mistake - did 2 lbs of crystal 40 and not crystal 10. Will be a bit darker, but hope the taste doesn't stray.

I have enough ingredients for plenty more !

 

[Hawgbranch]

I brewed 10gal of this today. OG was 1.056. It was a good day.

 

[EO74]

Hey ED i have everything to brew this except 2 oz cascades i only have 1 oz cascade plug.How do u think it would be if i bittered with 1 oz of cluster and finished with the cascade plug???Also i was thinking of utilizing a notty yeast cake i have a blonde ale finishing up on in my primary,could i just rack ur haus ale onto it ?? Whatda ya think , any help would be great thanks.

 

[DrinkNoH2O]

I brewed up a stove-top partial mash version of this recipe exactly as Edwort described and it turned out great. It's only been in the bottles 9 days but I couldn't help it and had to have a bottle last night. To my delight it was fully carbed and tasted delicious. I missed the gravities by just a bit:

OG: 1.049
FG: 1.012

I just got all of my AG equipment and plan on brewing an AG version soon. Cheers!

 

[bendavanza]

Hey ED i have everything to brew this except 2 oz cascades i only have 1 oz cascade plug.How do u think it would be if i bittered with 1 oz of cluster and finished with the cascade plug???Also i was thinking of utilizing a notty yeast cake i have a blonde ale finishing up on in my primary,could i just rack ur haus ale onto it ?? Whatda ya think , any help would be great thanks.

I'm not ED, but,
You should be fine using cluster for bittering, just compare the AA content and adjust the amount you use. Racking onto an existing yeast cake is great, you will have rapid fermentation, the blonde ale cake should not contribute anything to the beer.

 

[EO74]

thats what i was thinking ,like .75 cluster@60 .50@cas 30 .25@cas15 .25cas@5. I've never pitched on a cake and i've heard good and bad things but its always nice to be reassured before u try somthing new thanks Bendavanza!!

 

[Espi]

racked into a keg tonight... drank the whole sample!

this is going to be a hit at my birthday party in 2 and a half weeks.

Thanks, I will be doing this again, the old lady loved it as well.

 

[bendavanza]

the downside to pitching on the cake is that the cake keeps getting bigger, but you can do yeast washing (search the forums there are some great tutorials) but there is a limit to the number of batches you should do with the home harvested yeast.