American Pale Ale Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale

[Demon]

I did 10 gallons last weekend. Used Nottingham for half and 1056 for the other half. Very curious to try them side by side.

 

[Okie12beer]

I did 10 gallons last weekend. Used Nottingham for half and 1056 for the other half. Very curious to try them side by side.

Be sure to report back on that. I am very interested in what you find.

 

[Brandx40]

This recipe is cursed (for me)!! I'm so sad cuz it looks and sounds like a good pale ale.
It was my first all grain the 1st time I brewed it I didn't have any temp control and (like a dummy) brewed it in July. Tasted like plastic bananas.
I just brewed it again last week. Brew day went off w/out a hitch. Efficiency was low though. Ended up with OG of 1.043. Not tragic. pitched Nottinham at 70F. Cooled down to 65F and then brought it down to 60F where it is now. I sampled it this morning and it smelled really funky. Flavor was very dry (finshed at 1.010) with hardly any malt character at all. I'm thinking I got my first infection in 6 years. I'm going to let it sit another week. I also threw in .5 oz of cascade to dry hop in hopes of getting some aroma other than barnyard. I am so pissed. This recipe hates me!
Has anyone gotten any funky smells using Nottingham? I've used it before and its usually such a clean yeast. Must be brewer error

 

[finch138]

I tried this last month as my first ever partial mash. I got a little high on the mash temp 175ish and probably scorched the grains a little but it still taste fine, kind of like an IPA. Anyway my problem is after 3 weeks of bottle conditioning the three beers I've opened are all flat. I used 5 oz of priming sugar. It also turned out really dark. any idea what happened? Also would it be a bad idea to dump the rest of the beer into my keg and force carb?

 

[Brandx40]

I'm confused but happy. I had a funky smell in this beer and samples tasted odd too. I just let it sit, threw 1/2 oz of cascade to dry hop and tasted again. Now and funk seems to have left. Tastes nice dry and beady with nice hop crispness. Not sure why the initial funk but I'm pleased now.

 

[BoxofRain]

I'm confused but happy. I had a funky smell in this beer and samples tasted odd too. I just let it sit, threw 1/2 oz of cascade to dry hop and tasted again. Now and funk seems to have left. Tastes nice dry and beady with nice hop crispness. Not sure why the initial funk but I'm pleased now.

How long did you give it before you bottled/kegged it?

 

[Brandx40]

How long did you give it before you bottled/kegged it?

Haven't kegged yet. Fermentation was complete in less than a week. It was 1.010 in about 4 days. I let it sit for a full 7 days and then put .5oz of Cascade to dry hop. I'll keg it once its been a full 2 weeks.
Maybe it was just too young, but I've never had any weird smells with Nottingham.

 

[electric_beer]

Haven't kegged yet. Fermentation was complete in less than a week. It was 1.010 in about 4 days. I let it sit for a full 7 days and then put .5oz of Cascade to dry hop. I'll keg it once its been a full 2 weeks.
Maybe it was just too young, but I've never had any weird smells with Nottingham.

WAY too young IMHO. Not much tastes good in under 2 weeks. Although a good mild is ready in just about 2-2.5 weeks. Just because its finished fermenting doesn't mean its done.

 

[HItransplant]

I'm confused but happy. I had a funky smell in this beer and samples tasted odd too. I just let it sit, threw 1/2 oz of cascade to dry hop and tasted again. Now and funk seems to have left. Tastes nice dry and beady with nice hop crispness. Not sure why the initial funk but I'm pleased now.

WAY too young IMHO. Not much tastes good in under 2 weeks. Although a good mild is ready in just about 2-2.5 weeks. Just because its finished fermenting doesn't mean its done.

yeah, I was gonna say, "that funk.. its green beer."

 

[Brandx40]

yeah, I was gonna say, "that funk.. its green beer."

good to know. I usually leave my beers for 10 days to 2 weeks in primary but this one I got terrible efficiency and it ended up with a low start gravity and fermented out so fast! I have used Nottingham before but don't remember it fermenting out so quickly. The funk just caught me off guard. I usually like the smell of fermenting beer but this one smelled wrong. I'm looking forward to getting it in the keg.

 

[azscoob]

I have not brewed this one in such a long time, I tweaked the recipe over several batches to get to my current iteration. the other night I got a bug and brewed this per the original recipe. I want to do a side by side comparo to see how different my version has come from its original recipe.

 

[TheSlash]

Just kegged mine. Was in primary for 17 days, then cold crashed for 3 days then racked to keg. Fermented out to 1.008 ish wow. Horrid after taste on the sample though, a bitter astringent kind of taste. Can't find anything in palmers for what I taste so hopefully green?

Even after a 3 day cold crash I had so much suspended yeast! huge yeast cake too. Weird.

Hopefully all settles out and its good in a week for our beer club meeting.

 

[EzMak24]

Brewing this recipe right now but I'm increasing the 3rd and 4th addition of hops to 0.5 oz because the alpha acid was only 5%

 

[corwin6654]

I brewed this one on Friday. Everything went well, but my boil was a little more vigorous than I had anticipated, and I only ended up with 5 gallons in the fermenter with an OG of 1.058. No biggie, just a little less beer and a little higher ABV. The Notty went to work quickly, and it's fermenting vigorously at about 63 degrees right now. Once it's done, I plan on bottling and letting it sit for about a month before tasting.

 

[subwyking]

I took Friday off, and brewed it up. This is my first time for this recipe. I have it in my fermeezer. The Notty is insanely active!! I couldn't believe it. So I made a video, my SWMBO says I'm officially a beer nerd. What she doesn't know, is I knew that years ago.

Edwort's Haus Pale Ale

 

[TheSlash]

Awesome video =) What temp you set it to? and what temp is wort at?

 

[subwyking]

Thanks . In the video, it was set at 68 and beer was 70. I have since dropped it down two degrees to keep the beer at 68.

 

[aNYbrewery]

Just kegged mine. Was in primary for 17 days, then cold crashed for 3 days then racked to keg. Fermented out to 1.008 ish wow. Horrid after taste on the sample though, a bitter astringent kind of taste. Can't find anything in palmers for what I taste so hopefully green?

Even after a 3 day cold crash I had so much suspended yeast! huge yeast cake too. Weird.

Hopefully all settles out and its good in a week for our beer club meeting.

I had the exact same thing happen to mine. Low FG and the same bitter astringent after taste. I thought it was green but its been mellowing for over 2 months now and has only improved a bit.

 

[sudsmcgee]

I brought some to work today for Cinco de Mayo and everyone loved it. This recipe is great!

 

[vaheel]

Brewed this as my second AG batch. SG came in at 1.054 with just over five gallons in the carboy and pitched Notty. Not sure if the SG will make a big difference, plase chime in with any thoughts.

First time using Cascade hops and really liked the aroma. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[HItransplant]

anyone try priming this with honey?


How much did you use?

results?

 

[Canadabrew]

If I want to make it a bit more hoppy can I just add more at the end of the boil?

 

[scinerd3000]

If I want to make it a bit more hoppy can I just add more at the end of the boil?

I dryhopped....came out nice. Or add at flameout

 

[twardnw]

Brewed my first batch of this today. Interestingly, BTP says the OG should be 1.044 (I'm guessing because of differing brewhouse efficiencies), and I hit it dead on (first AG batch I've done that with). Just aerated and pitched, looking forward to drinking it and sharing with my friends over the summer.

 

[cliffyj]

Hi,
I have just opened a bottle of this(10 days bottled) and it tasted very good, and it is well carbed with a nice head.
It is also the the first beer i have brewed with water treatment and i don't get the after taste(tcp) i was getting before.
Going to do another batch of this tomorrow, as i order double grain to save postage, but i am going to do Ed's Bavarian Hefeweizen after that, as i do like like a German wheat.

 

[SwampassJ]

Brewed this grain bill 3 weeks ago but threw in the hops I had left. Ended up using my last half ounce of saaz at 60, Nugget leaf .66oz for each 15, 10, 5, 0 and now Dryhopping in secondary with .66oz Nugget leaf. What a bitch to get into a carboy. All of the resin made it want to stick to the carboy mouth, I'm hopping I didn't produce any unnecessary exposure trying to cram it all in.

 

[TBoons]

Just bottled my batch I brewed on March 22nd. It has been in the secondary for over a month now. I just didn't have the time to bottle it. Hope it makes it even better.

Tasted pretty good going in the bottles.

 

[mwhc22]

trying a modified PM version tonight. Im using my new Blingmann 15 gallon pot and doing a double batch. using nottingham on one bucket and german ale yeast on the other
can't wait to get these kegged and ready for a Bierfest BBQ we are going to have at my friends house this summer

 

[mwhc22]

well the 2 batches are in fermentation... i guess we will find out how they taste in a month or so

 

[razorbrewer]

I'm giving this a go as my first AG and I have some questions. Apologies in advance as I'm completely new to AG and I hope these haven't already been answered in the thread so far...

I order from Austin Homebrew and I'm not certain which grain the 2-Row Pale Malt is. They have Brewers 2-Row Malt and Pale Ale Malt. Which one is it?

Also, their Cascade hops are 5%...how do I adjust to get the desired IBUs for this recipe?

And I'm doing 10gal, would I just double everything and follow the steps just as they've been laid out in the OP? Specifically, do I do 3 batch sparges as detailed for the 5gal recipe except with twice the volume of water?

Thanks and sorry for the newb questions.