Brewers Best California Imperial Pale Ale

[upperNY01brewer]

Arrogant Bastard is brewed in Escondido in San Diego Co. by Stone Brewery. It comes in at 7.2 ABV. I get it at my local grocery store in 22oz. bottles. Have to say I always enjoy my Bastard at ever pour..Similiar to a IPA but as mention by someone earlier its a bit moore malty but not to much to mask the hops. All in all would say try it if you have a chance.

 

[smears]

I'm about to bottle this same kit. I added 2.2lbs of LME and dry hopped w/ 2oz of colombus for about 2 weeks in the secondary. I'll let you guys know how it comes out!

 

[wburn]

I brewed this about a month ago and just kegged it....after a couple days carbing, it taste amazing! This is definitely going to become a regular beer on tap in my house.

Anyone got an All-grain recipe for it? I just made the switch, but I may just brew this extract regularly if I cant find a similar all-grain brew.

 

[smears]

Mine came out great!

 

[Gunfighter04]

I've got some in the fermenter, and it's going into the keg today. Tasted it after a week and I was a bit worried about how hoppy it was. Now at 3 weeks on the cake it's really coming into it's own. I haven't had arrogant bastard but I know it's a strong IPA. Just as an FYI, I missed the OG by about 3pts on the low side and it finished 1 pt low, not something I was overly worried about, probably a bit off on my water measurement.

Can't wait for it to carb up!

 

[smears]

You're gonna love it. I added 2.2lbs of lme to mine, then threw 2oz of colombus in the secondary, left it in there for a few weeks then bottled it up. Pretty damn good beer dude.


Edit: I realized I wrote the same thing a few posts up. Ha.

 

[amingo]

I see brewers Best has "Imperial Pale Ale"....I dont see a "California Imperial Pale Ale".......is the Imperial Pale Ale what you guys are talking about?

SOunds like I should try this......they list it as 8% ABV on their site! Giddy up!

Assuming we are talking about the BB Imperial Pale Ale, I brewed up a batch a couple Saturdays ago and man did it ferment!

Lag time was about 10 hours and produced a 3-inch krausen within 2 days. I had it in a carbouy and it was so turbulent it looked like it was boiling! Settled down on day 5 and was already within the specified FG range so I tasted it and decided to transfer to secondary and dry hop it for a nice dose of aroma.

Pretty much followed the recipe on this one except for the following:
- 5-gallon boil (4-gallon steep of specialty grains for 30 min plus a 1-gallon "sparge" of grain bag – slowly poured hot water over grain bag to extract as much of the sugars as possible.
- rehydrated the Safale US-05 in one cup 95-degree water for 20 minutes prior to pitching.
- dry-hopped with 2oz Citra

- OG 1.086
- Day 5 gravity 1.015
- Approx ABV 9.3%

Can't wait to taste this one!

 

[slicksmix]

mine will not carb. i know the comments were old, but its funny people had foam after just a week or two. mine is almost 4 weeks and no bubbles what so ever. it also tastes really sweet. fg was 1018.

 

[Jbloader]

The Brewer's Best California Imperial pale kit is my recipe. It is designed to taste just like Arrogant Bastard. It is a good kit if you really like Chinook hops.

L.D. Carlson asked me to create a couple kits for them in the "Bold" series. The Russian Imperial Stout is mine as well. Let me know what you think.

Forrest

LMAO,

I started the California last week and the Russian is just about at the two week mark in fermentation. You meet the dangdest people on here!

BTW, The Russian was a violent fermenter that blew my bucket lid off. The hops plugged my airlock. When I put the California on I used a blow-off tube into a 1/2 gallon growler and was very glad that I did. The tube is laced with krausen and the growler looks like it is full of beer.

 

[Jbloader]

I did not check the post dates...

 

[smears]

It's all good. I didn't either. I just figured this was still a good place to talk about this kit, that way when strangers online go searching for info about it, they wont have to bounce from thread to thread.

 

[amingo]

Assuming we are talking about the BB Imperial Pale Ale, I brewed up a batch a couple Saturdays ago and man did it ferment!

Lag time was about 10 hours and produced a 3-inch krausen within 2 days. I had it in a carbouy and it was so turbulent it looked like it was boiling! Settled down on day 5 and was already within the specified FG range so I tasted it and decided to transfer to secondary and dry hop it for a nice dose of aroma.

Pretty much followed the recipe on this one except for the following:
- 5-gallon boil (4-gallon steep of specialty grains for 30 min plus a 1-gallon "sparge" of grain bag – slowly poured hot water over grain bag to extract as much of the sugars as possible.
- rehydrated the Safale US-05 in one cup 95-degree water for 20 minutes prior to pitching.
- dry-hopped with 2oz Citra

- OG 1.086
- Day 5 gravity 1.015
- Approx ABV 9.3%

Can't wait to taste this one!

Update: Stole a sample after a week of dry hopping and it tastes great. I could drink this stuff right out of the secondary! Citra dry hopping gave a nice, mellow aroma.

 

[smears]

I've got 4 12oz bottles left and I brewed it about 3-4 months ago it's all I can do not to drink those. I tried one the other night and it ended up being exactly like I wanted. Really pungent stuff.

I'm seriously thinking of getting another kit of this for my next brew, after I do this AHS yeti kit I have. It'd be interesting to brew the same beer twice, once as my 3rd brew and again as my 11th to see if I got any better at it.

I saw a 7 gallon turkey fryer on clearance at wal-mart an hour ago for $45, but I live in an apartment so there's no way I could get it. So it's stovetop only for now.

 

[s3n8]

Extract brews are pretty hard for the human to screw up. I would imagine a much bigger variation of taste coming from yeast, temps, time in primary, etc. There are lots of variables, few of which brewers can easily control. Boiling a wort at a specific gravity and adding hops at the prescribed times are some of the few.