American Pale Ale Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale

[starrfish]

Just popped the keg on this one today! WOW! fantastic! will brew this again! THANKS ED! serving this up to some friends friday eve. Hope they enjoy it as much as I do!

brewed during a SC heat wave so it did have some big fruity overtones but I like that.

Anyway fantastic recipe! Also gelatin cleared in keg and came out CRYSTAL CLEAR!

thanks yet again!

 

[Jaysus]

I am brewing 10g of something awfully similar to this on Sunday. This is a special batch for two reasons:

1) I am teaching my father how to brew on Sunday, and
2) We are going to serve this beer at my sister's wedding!

We are brewing at his house, I am taking my gear there, and will leave 5 gallons with him - he wants to bottle it and hand it out as favors to a few folks at the wedding. I am going to serve 'my' five gallons at the wedding from either a keg or from my pin.

I am leaning toward the pin at this point, but I think the bride and groom may want the keg for logistical reasons.

 

[nisk916]

Just brewed this tonight as my first all grain. Og ended up at 1.040. Tastes and smells great. I can't wait to drink this one! Kippis!

 

[stblindtiger]

I am leaning toward the pin at this point, but I think the bride and groom may want the keg for logistical reasons.

Sorry, but what is a pin?

 

[idigg]

Yes, what is pin. Pin lock keg doesn't make sense in your sentence. Lol

 

[idigg]

I am brewing this right now, preboil gravity was 1.047!

 

[idigg]

Got 1.057 SG with 8.5lb 2 row, 2lb Vienna and. 5lb c10. Not bad!

 

[IffyG]

Just brewed this tonight as my first all grain. Og ended up at 1.040. Tastes and smells great. I can't wait to drink this one! Kippis!

Did you have an attack of the stupids like I did and dilute it down that far? Either way, I kegged my 1.040 OG Haus Pale ale today (I need the fermentation fridge tomorrow) and the hydro sample tasted great. Fermented down to 1.007.

 

[brum]

Dryhopped with 2oz in 10gal batch.

Delicious. Thumbs up!

 

[Utmustang]

Well I have been drinking my first batch of this recipe for about 10 days now. It has a nice clean taste to it. The next time I brew this recipe I am going to try dry hopping as others have recommended. I would like it to be slightly more hoppy. My keg also has not completed cleared yet, but this might improve with time. If not I might use a secondary on the next batch. Thanks for the great recipe Ed.

Just to update this post, my keg did clear up after about 3 weeks. I brewed the Austin Homebrew Kalamazoo IPA this weekend, and the grain bill was surprisingly similar to this recipe.

 

[MichaelBrock]

Like many others, this is going to be the recipe for my first all-grain brew. Hopefully this weekend. I have purchased the grain and hops but bought my lhbs only had 5.0% AA cascade hops. I can do the simple math to figure out how much hops I would need to keep the same IBUs but the staggered boiled times complicates things. My thinking is that since the later additions don't add as much bitterness, but add the same amount of flavor and aroma, that it would be best to add the extra hops in the 60 minute boil batch. Some tinkering with Beersmith seems to indicate that I would need a tad less than 2 ounces of 5.0%AA hops in that 60 minute boil batch to keep the bitterness at 39 IBUs. Does that make sense?

 

[Jaysus]

Sorry, but what is a pin?

Yes, what is pin. Pin lock keg doesn't make sense in your sentence. Lol

A ~5 gallon cask vessel... essentially a smaller firkin.

Here is a shot of my pin in action:

And as an update... the future brother in law is a big fan of the pin idea. If I go that route, I will surely dry hop with something in the pin just for fun.

 

[UncleJohnnys]

This is a super good thread. I'm about to try my first all grain and I'm going to use this one I think.

 

[jgourd]

I'm going to do 10 gal of this and split them. One will become NA (non alcoholic). I can then taste them side by side. It;s for my wife (who is preggy!).

 

[idigg]

I used 8.5lbs of 2row instead of 8lbs, and got a OG of 1.057 and I just checked the gravity, and it is 1.010 after 7 days. This fermented out FAST. Is 1.010 going to be really dry? I dry hopped 1oz cascade today, going to bottle after 14 days.

 

[IffyG]

I just pulled a pint of this beer (also my first all grain brew). It's delicious and very malty. It has a pretty strong malt presence, as in much more than I was expecting. Did that come from the Vienna malt?

 

[UncleJohnnys]

Brewed this (first all grain too) and was lighting the burner as the earthquake hit us here in Virginia. Everything hit right on the numbers except we had to boil 90 instead of 60 minutes. I could tell it was going to take alittle longer so I held off on the last hops addition. The 60 was 90, 30 a 60 and 15 a 45 though. Will this matter much? How about the rest of the wort? OG was spot on though as well as final volume.

 

[elproducto]

Earthquake Pale Ale, cool!

Unfortunately it will make a difference, mostly in your flavor/aroma additions. It will be a bit more bitter as well. Make sure you dry hop it which will help.

 

[MikeFallopian]

I made a 2.5 gal batch of this yesterday (I chose that quantity because I've got quite a bit to drink already). I simply cut the quantity of ingredients in half, and used Maris Otter instead of American 2-row.

Interestingly, my original gravity was 1.075! Does anyone know why the wort ended up with such a higher gravity than the intended 1.051?

In terms of set-up I'm using a picnic cooler (about 30 litres) as a mash tun, and covering it with a thick duvet, then using a 21 litre stock pot as a boiler. If my calculations are correct I had 79 percent efficiency yesterday!

 

[MikeFallopian]

A ~5 gallon cask vessel... essentially a smaller firkin.

Here is a shot of my pin in action:

And as an update... the future brother in law is a big fan of the pin idea. If I go that route, I will surely dry hop with something in the pin just for fun.

Where did you get that? I want one!

 

[UncleJohnnys]

Earthquake Pale Ale, cool!

Unfortunately it will make a difference, mostly in your flavor/aroma additions. It will be a bit more bitter as well. Make sure you dry hop it which will help.

I was smart enough to wait to put the last on in about 5 minutes before the end. It's in the carboy but could I still throw some pellets in?

 

[elproducto]

Oh, well then you shouldn't be too bad.

Wait until it's about 90 percent done fermentation and then throw some dry hops in.. sure won't hurt.

 

[UncleJohnnys]

I made a 2.5 gal batch of this yesterday (I chose that quantity because I've got quite a bit to drink already). I simply cut the quantity of ingredients in half, and used Maris Otter instead of American 2-row.

Interestingly, my original gravity was 1.075! Does anyone know why the wort ended up with such a higher gravity than the intended 1.051?

In terms of set-up I'm using a picnic cooler (about 30 litres) as a mash tun, and covering it with a thick duvet, then using a 21 litre stock pot as a boiler. If my calculations are correct I had 79 percent efficiency yesterday!

I'm thinking the original was for 5.5 gallons but don't know if that would raise it that much??

 

[UncleJohnnys]

Oh, well then you shouldn't be too bad.

Wait until it's about 90 percent done fermentation and then throw some dry hops in.. sure won't hurt.

Oh, cool. I threw in a bit of priming sugar at the end to give it little kick which might thin the taste too. I'll do the dry hop though.
Thanks!

 

[MichaelBrock]

Brewed this (first all grain too) and was lighting the burner as the earthquake hit us here in Virginia. Everything hit right on the numbers except we had to boil 90 instead of 60 minutes. I could tell it was going to take alittle longer so I held off on the last hops addition. The 60 was 90, 30 a 60 and 15 a 45 though. Will this matter much? How about the rest of the wort? OG was spot on though as well as final volume.

I'm very new at this but I think when you boil longer than the recipe calls for you should stick to the hops schedule. I.e. not put any hops in until you had 60 minutes left in the boil and continued from there. That assures that the hops boil for the same amount as called for by the recipe. Otherwise, the hops get "over extracted".

 

[UncleJohnnys]

That was kinda my point, I didn't expect it to take that long to boil off. The worst part is it boiled over nearly a half a dozen times.

 

[idigg]

Just bottled this, got 51 bottles total. Smelled ficking delicious. I followed the recipe, except I used 8.5lbs 2 row, and I dry hopped with 1oz cascade then crash cooled. I can't wait to taste in 3 weeks. It will be bottle conditioning while Im in dominican republic

 

[mistercameron]

3 weeks in the fridge and this beer is great. I really appreciate how easy it is on the palate, especially on a hot day like today.

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[snowblind5150]

Made 10 gallons yesterday. Wound up at 1.040. Can't wait to have it bottled.

 

[rossi46]

Pulled a pint of the wonderful brew tonight. Very good. It's about 5 weeks old now.

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