American Pale Ale Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale

[Prymal]

Finally got a first taste of this brew after 2 weeks on gas in a keg. Holy cow that is just an amazing pale ale. Perfect head retention, wonderful hop aroma and a perfect balance of malt and hop on the pallet. Like many others this will become a staple at my house.

 

[Soldevi]

First post in 2012! The ale lives strong!:rockin:

Brewed this last week, was my second AG and second batch ever. The first I tried was a Wit which I'll say was much too difficult for a first brew. Flavoring a beer with spice is not easy.

I can already tell this is gonna be good. I used centennial because my LHBS is out of stock on cascade. Adjusted the ibus and blam. Fermented out in 2 days. I will be using Nottingham again for other beers. Great yeast.

Thank you Edwort

 

[mccumath]

Brewed this today!

I based the recipe on a 68% efficiency that I had been getting since I started all-grain, and upped the grains a little bit because of it. Bought the ingredients from the LHBS that I had not been to yet, and had the grains crushed there. Focused on getting any doughballs worked out, and double batch sparged. Well, I nailed 82% efficiency today! Soooo... I had a pre-boil gravity 1.054 and a post boil gravity of 1.063, a few points higher that I would have liked, and I bumped up the 30 minute cascade addition to 1 ounce to maintain 38 IBU. Rehydrated Nottingham yeast, pitched it at 68 degrees. I have the stuff to do this again coming from Midwest, so I will have something to compare it to. At ~6.5% ABV, I hope it is not too overwhelming alcohol wise... I imagine it will be all good!

Very easy brew to make, made for a relatively stress free brew day.

Thanks EdWort!

 

[fraubrauen]

Used this recipe to brew my first yesterday! It went (mostly) smoothly. I went AG BIAB and stuck exactly to the recipe (except for the hops - LHBS only had 8.8% Cascade, so I dialed back the amounts).

The sample I look for OG reading was a gorgeous color and tasted pretty good. It is now happily bubbling away in the fermenter.

Thanks for the great recipe, EdWort!

 

[TrubDog]

After three weeks in the fermenter I kegged up 5 gallons today. Did EdWort's original recipe and had a little taste - nice!. First time with this recipe and this will absolutely become a staple in my haus brews. My hat's off to you EdWort!

 

[Soldevi]

I do have a question though. It will be 10 days in primary this Friday. Its still cloudy just like the pictures some have posted, same color light orange. Should I leave it until the orange cloud drops out of it? or will it clear in the bottle?

I check it everyday hoping to see that light amber clear color on top. Id post a pic but i can't yet.

 

[rossi46]

It will clear in the bootle.

 

[mccumath]

I brewed this on Sunday, and using the Nottingham yeast. have already hit final gravity (1.012). That yeast is quite fast! I, of course, drank some of the hydrometer sample, and it does not present with too much alcohol forward taste at 6.5%, so we will see how it goes - this was my only real concern. Have some Citra hops on the way from NikoBrew, going to give it a little dry hopping with 1 oz, as I really like the tropical fruit taste that they bring to the table. Also, I have the stuff coming from Midwest supplies to brew it again this Sunday, and will probably dry hop with something else and try it with US-05 yeast this go around.

These are my first attempts with Pale Ales (I have not imbibed too many different types, and this is the first one I have brewed), so I look forward to all the experience gained!

Thanks!

Ryan M.

 

[Tbnguy]

I would really like to brew this but am wondering if it is possible to do the extract without full boil? I spent a lot of time reading this thread, but not all so forgive me if it's been covered. I am new and just have a basic setup with a 20 qt brewpot. Thanks for any advice.

 

[Pdeezy]

I would really like to brew this but am wondering if it is possible to do the extract without full boil? I spent a lot of time reading this thread, but not all so forgive me if it's been covered. I am new and just have a basic setup with a 20 qt brewpot. Thanks for any advice.

Ya it will work just fine. Watch out for boil overs though. DME is great at boiling over.

 

[Svinto]

I'm gonna make this next weekend. Unfortunately my shop doesnt have any Vienna malt and I was wondering what the best substitution would be. If I was to use munich, would I use the same amount as vienna or scale it down as to retain the same color?

Really looking forward to this one

 

[pkgmsu2000]

SIAP. what is the best wyeast equivalent for Nottingham? are you guys just with the standard and reliable good ole 1056?

TIA

 

[Beernewb]

anyone ever dry hop this beer with a little cascade? or citra?

 

[solavirtus]

SIAP. what is the best wyeast equivalent for Nottingham? are you guys just with the standard and reliable good ole 1056?

TIA

I would suggest Wyeast 1098 or WLP007. It's dry, relatively clean English ale yeast that would sub well for Nottingham I think. That being said, 1056 did just fine with this recipe when I did it.

 

[mccumath]

anyone ever dry hop this beer with a little cascade? or citra?

Yeah, I added an ounce of citra about 2 days ago to my primary. Smells amazing, can't wait to carb up and start drinking it!

 

[CCBrewer]

possible to make this a raspberry pale ale???

 

[Prymal]

possible to make this a raspberry pale ale???

Sure, just add the raspberries to the fermentor during secondary. This is such a good base recipe it really could be turned into anything.

 

[kappclark]

I would suggest Wyeast 1098 or WLP007. It's dry, relatively clean English ale yeast that would sub well for Nottingham I think. That being said, 1056 did just fine with this recipe when I did it.

I want to try the 1056 - said to be very neutral..

I have made 3 batched with WLP001, and I like the results ..

 

[Kaotica]

I brewed a 5.5 gal batch last weekend. Bumped extracts a bit looking for little higher OG and little lower IBU, but I overshot OG and hit .068, final was .016, so guess I'm not really hitting the mark, but the sample was pretty nice at just 5 days. Image is from the sample at day five.

4 lbs Briess Golden Light DME
4 lbs Briess Golden Light LME
Weyermann Vienna 1.5 lbs
Briess Crystal 10L 0.5 lbs
1 oz Cascade 60 min (6.8% AA)
0.5 oz Cascade 30 min
0.25 oz Cascade 15 min
1/2 tsp Irish Moss 15 min
0.25 oz Cascade 5 min
Nottingham Dry Ale Yeast

Just FYI, 2lbs DME added to mini mash wort for 60min boil. Stopped boil with 15 min remaining and added 2lbs DME and 4lbsLME and returned to boil. After boil restarted I did the 15min adds.

 

[pkgmsu2000]

i just made this brew for the first time on sunday. i copied the recipe exactly, but trimmed it down from 5.5 gallons to 3 gallons.

is this what its supposed to look like? ive never seen a color like this before...

 

[mccumath]

I have now brewed 2 batches of this since the beginning of the year, one on the 1st and one on the 8th. Dry-hopped the first batch with an ounce of Citra, and just racked the second batch to keg for carbonation/conditioning for 2-3 weeks. Waiting on the Citra dry hopped batch to finish dry hopping before bottling/kegging (have not decided yet...).

I pulled a sample of batch #2 this am, and it is pretty tasty. For only 10 days out, it has a nice character that will only get better after carbed and conditioned. The Citra dry hopped batch has an amazing citrus/tropical fruit aroma in the primary, which should provide a interesting variation on a very good recipe. Will post further tasting notes on both after they are carbonated and conditioned!

Thanks!
Ryan M.

 

[tennesseean_87]

I just had my first bottle of this, my first BIAB AG. Despite royally screwing up everything I could (didn't ad sauermalz until half way through mash, mashed 2 degrees too high for about that long, then it dropped to 140, notty took off overnight and was too high for fermometer to read, though I cooled it down quickly), it's a good beer. I want another! Thanks, Ed!

 

[EdgeBrewer]

Was planning on brewing this tomorrow so I went to the hbs and bought all the ingredients. Somewhere in the confusion of milling two separate grain bills (gonna be a two brew weekend) I milled the entire pound of the crystal, instead of a the required 8 oz. I know, I need to invest in a mill! I am worried that this is going to be way too sweet, not at all what I'm looking for. Should I just it brew it as is? Up the hops? Thoughts?

 

[EdWort]

Was planning on brewing this tomorrow so I went to the hbs and bought all the ingredients. Somewhere in the confusion of milling two separate grain bills (gonna be a two brew weekend) I milled the entire pound of the crystal, instead of a the required 8 oz. I know, I need to invest in a mill! I am worried that this is going to be way too sweet, not at all what I'm looking for. Should I just it brew it as is? Up the hops? Thoughts?

Is it already mixed with the other malt? If not, just weigh out 8 oz, & bag the rest for the other batch.

If you cannot separate it, RDWHAHB. I bet it turns out good. It's only another 8 oz. of 10L anyway.

 

[PeteZA]

Brewed this over the Christmas holidays, extremely warm here in South Africa at the moment, so dumped it in the swamp cooler and hoped for the best... Opened my first on yesterday, only 5 days since bottling, OMG it is incredible! Thanks for an awesome recipe

 

[EdgeBrewer]

Yeah, I milled all of the grain together, I'm just worried cause I came up with and IPA that had 1 ILB of crystal 60 and it is almost cloyingly sweet (so far, only 2 weeks in the bottle). Thanks Ed.

 

[TheWeeb]

Finally getting around to this Mini-mash version, going to pitch it on top of the yeast from my Red Rye, S-04, any comments on how this might turn out would be greatly appreciated!

 

[TheWeeb]

evening brew session yesterday, OG 1.056, pitched as planned on top of the red rye yeast cake, darker color than expected, but churning away 24 hours later. On the right is half of the red rye secondaried on Red Stag soaked dark char oak.

It will be interesting to see what flavors are added to the Haus Pale from the rye yeast/trub .

 

[jbsg02]

Brewing this (all grain) right now. 54 minutes left in my boil. Will be using US-05 instead of notty though.

 

[jbsg02]

Sitting in the fermenter now, mine's closer to 1.060 but that's cause I'm a lot closer to 5 gals than I am 5.5.