American Pale Ale Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale

[natural]

This was my first all grain. It's still quite cloudy. Not very clear like some of the other pictures but I had not used any fining agents and put in some pellet hops that really broke apart as my last addition. I've also been trying to force carb it a bit by rolling my keg around so anything that was setting up is likely just getting mixed around.

Great tasting beer though! Can't wait for it to be in the keg for another week.

 

[jcroucher]

Looking to try out this one this weekend. The answer may be hidden in here somewhere, but I really didn't wanna leaf through 200 pages of comments. I haven't made the leap to buying a keg system yet and I'm still on bottling. How should I go about bottling this one out? Primary at 10 days and then what? Bottle with priming and let sit for how long? In the fridge or keep it at 68?

 

[Jupapabear]

Bottle like normal. Three weeks or so at room temp.

Jupapabear

 

[jcroucher]

Bottle like normal. Three weeks or so at room temp.

Jupapabear

Thanks!

 

[schematix]

I just gave this brew a shot with slight grain bill modification, and more attention to the water and fermentation.

10lbs 2-row
4lb 14oz german pilsner (using the last of a 25kg sack)
4lbs vienna
2lbs C-20 (most significant recipe change)
2oz acid malt (for pH)

I kept the same hop schedule, but did use more mass since the hops I have seems to be lower in strength than the label indicates.

Mashed at 158F for an hour, mashed out at 170F for 10 minutes, vorlaufed for 10 minutes, and pulled crystal clear wort to the kettle.

I built the water from distilled. Ion profile was ca=126, mg=18, na=25, so4=300, cl=55, hco3=66. I held back the sparge dose of the baking soda for the kettle. I didn't get a good hot break initially, but the moment i added the baking soda, i instantly had break form.

Boiled for 75 minutes but added first hops at 60. I ended up getting about 12.7G at 1.057 (over 90% efficiency). I pitched 4 packs of rehydrated US-05. Going to ferment at 62 +/-1.

 

[Yaksha808]

Just floated the first keg of this... And I didn't make another one to replace it... poor planning on my part.
Just bit the bullet and purchased enough specialty grain and hops to make 4 more batches... should be good for a few months... lol

 

[natural]

I'm loving this beer. My gravity sample was not that clear at all... Haha. I wish. Mine isn't even clear what so ever. It was my first all grain. I'll use some Irish Moss next time to see if there's a difference. Love this beer though. I've had it legged about two weeks now and it just gets better and better.

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[goldenmunky]

Brewed this beer as my first AG and finally had a taste of it today. All I can saw is - wow!

Thank you so much for the recipe!!



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[browder]

Started in on a keg of this last night I'm gonna check but I'm thinkin this beer is less than a month old tasted pretty good considering it's only been on Co2 for nine days--have a batch in a bucket that will need kegged soon and think enough grain for one more batch--good recipe!!

 

[JohnSand]

I just had a bottle with lunch. I made this in October, drank most by New Year's, it's been in the fridge for 4 weeks. Really great beer, tasty, lovely. One of those that makes you feel good about brewing.

 

[pumpkinman2012]

Making this tomorrow.

 

[rnm410]

Making this tomorrow also.

 

[wormraper]

I was planning on making this tomorrow. but I noticed both my hbs's only have extra light, light, amber, dark and wheat LME and DME.... is it going to be horrible if I sub out all pale LME instead of having the 1.5 lbs of Munich?

 

[pumpkinman2012]

I personally would wait until you can get the Munich.

 

[wormraper]

I personally would wait until you can get the Munich.

gotcha, I'll have to pass on the recipe then. Unless I special order it from a website there's no place in town that carries it. and I never have need to order online cuz my brewshops are so inclusive of EVERYTHING (but the Munich malt extract it seems)

 

[glick]

I was planning on making this tomorrow. but I noticed both my hbs's only have extra light, light, amber, dark and wheat LME and DME.... is it going to be horrible if I sub out all pale LME instead of having the 1.5 lbs of Munich?

I would sub it out for the pale LME. You're going to end up with a different beer, but still good.

 

[wormraper]

I would sub it out for the pale LME. You're going to end up with a different beer, but still good.

I'll give it a try... it's a pretty simple pale ale so it shouldn't hurt it too bad. another though I had was sub amber malt extract for the munich since it has a bit of munich in it.

 

[Mythos13]

Did my first AG with Ed's Recipe. Got a 1.048 adjusted for temp. Looks great. Can't wait to get this in the keg.
Thanks ED!

Kegged 04/07 after 10 days in primary. Got a FG of 1.010 after temp adj. My primary was a little on the warm side 75F since I was out of town and the water in the bowl was dry. Took a sample and was very excellent....can't wait till it's carbonated.

 

[Crispy31]

I have to say thanks Edwort. I love this recipe!

Personally, I like it even better with chilies added; I add roasted Anaheim, Serrano, and Jalapenos to secondary for 3-5 days for an awesome chili beer. I halve and de-seed the peppers before broiling them in the oven. I thought the hops might over power the chili flavor but it doesn't, it compliments it quite well. By removing the seeds it doesn't have that back of the throat burn but rather has a nice green chili aroma and taste.

I have brewed several batches so far and it never lasts long after the bottles are carbed. I will be brewing this again soon.

 

[jeff62217]

Love this recipe as so many others do.

Today is my second batch of it, with amarillo this time..

The first batch was wonderful after 10-12 days of cold storage

 

[Jupapabear]

Just mashed in. This will be my 3rd time making this recipe.

 

[LogicBomb]

This will be my first time all-grain brewing.

A few quick questions:

1. Is the water temp 152 when it comes in contact with the grain? Or do I heat the water over/above this number so that after they combine they hold at 152 for the hour?

2. When you add the 5 quarts of water for vorlauf, do you stir/mix once you pour the water in?

3. similarly, I imagine I mix after adding the 3.25 gallons of 175 water before vorlaufing again?

 

[Jupapabear]

1. You want the temp to hold at 152, so dough in higher.

2. Don't stir after vorlauf. You don't want upset the grain bed.

3. Stir the crap a out of it and let it sit before vorlauf. If you are batch sparging that is.

 

[schematix]

I just gave this brew a shot with slight grain bill modification, and more attention to the water and fermentation.

10lbs 2-row
4lb 14oz german pilsner (using the last of a 25kg sack)
4lbs vienna
2lbs C-20 (most significant recipe change)
2oz acid malt (for pH)

I kept the same hop schedule, but did use more mass since the hops I have seems to be lower in strength than the label indicates.

Mashed at 158F for an hour, mashed out at 170F for 10 minutes, vorlaufed for 10 minutes, and pulled crystal clear wort to the kettle.

I built the water from distilled. Ion profile was ca=126, mg=18, na=25, so4=300, cl=55, hco3=66. I held back the sparge dose of the baking soda for the kettle. I didn't get a good hot break initially, but the moment i added the baking soda, i instantly had break form.

Boiled for 75 minutes but added first hops at 60. I ended up getting about 12.7G at 1.057 (over 90% efficiency). I pitched 4 packs of rehydrated US-05. Going to ferment at 62 +/-1.

Finally kegged this batch. I normally mash low and get dry beers, so this time i figured i'd go at the high end of the range to see if it makes a difference. Well i'm here to say it definitely makes a difference. This batch finished at 1.020! Surprisingly it's not cloying, but it's obviously a thicker beer. Very good overall. Next time i'll mash 2 degrees cooler and see if it ends up more in the 1.018 range.

 

[LogicBomb]

Used this for my first all grain batch and gave this a shot today. Made a few minor mistakes, I'm sure it will still turn into beer.

- 8.8 lbs of 2-row
- 2.2 lbs of vienna
- 0.5 lbs crystal I

Strike water at 166F, mashed in at 149, added some boiling water to get it up to 150... After half an hour it went back down to 148/149 so I added more hot water to bring it up to 150. Just couldn't hit 152 to save my life. Also overshot the strike water by 0.5 gallon BEFORE I decided to add extra to bring up the temp (note to self: use a calculator, not my brain...). Not sure the effect of this.

Pre-boil OG came in right around 1.048 - 1.05. Was hard to read but it was in that playing field. Not bad for my first attempt!

Ended up with about 6.6 gallons of water in the kettle pre-boil. Ended up with about 5 gallons in the fermentor.

Had to use Amarillo - told there is a cascade shortage. Boo.

Excited to give this guy a try!

 

[cetwlaa]

Brewed one batch of this recipe in mid Feb, opened a bottle last night!

This beer taste so good, and gave me a fancy imagination that I have turned into pro in homebrewing, haha...

I am a beginner of this hobby and so far only brewed 4 batches, this beer is the best definitely

Thanks Edwort


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[wyobrewer1]

Brewing this as we speak.


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[Mythos13]

This recipe is one of my wife's and her friends favorites. I'm going to change up the hops next batch and see if I can get it more towards my liking.

 

[yewtah-brewha]

This recipe is one of my wife's and her friends favorites. I'm going to change up the hops next batch and see if I can get it more towards my liking.

Mythos13, I am just curious as to what the hops in the original was like? From what I can tell it looks like its really bitter!

I was thinking of reversing the hop schedule so that 1 oz goes in at the end of the boil, I'm not a real big bitter beer fan

 

[Mythos13]

Yetah-brewha, I would say that the bitterness I got wasn't what I would want. It drinks like a white ale to me and probably why my wife likes it. I would probably do the 1oz at the end if you want a bit more bitterness.

Also, just noticed that my hops weren't 6.6%....only 5.4%