American Amber Ale Broken Leg House Amber

[Number2]

Has anyone else brewed this yet? What were your results? I have the materials and will be going for it. I just wanted to see how it has turned out for others.

 

[Number2]

Ok, 1 week in the fermentor, I just added the dry hop additions, and I am at 1.016, down from OG of 1.054.

1 more week until bottling.

 

[Yooper]

Ok, 1 week in the fermentor, I just added the dry hop additions, and I am at 1.016, down from OG of 1.054.

1 more week until bottling.

Did you taste it? I was just telling my husband that we need this again, as it's one of our favorites but tomorrow I'm brewing a brown ale.

 

[HopLife]

The only change I made was the yeast. I'm using Wyeast 1272 American Ale II. QUOTE]

I keep 1272 around as the 'house yeast.' Also considering brewing this recipe. What is the verdict? Should I follow Yooper's lead or save a few bucks by using what I have?

Any input?

 

[Number2]

OK.
To the point. I like it and I will do it again. I am glad I did it.

Useless rambling:

I was not initially impressed by the samples I took at bottling or when I dry hopped. Because I am an impatient weenie, I started to drink these at about 5 days in the bottle. I continued drinking one or two each day because I had no other beer. The taste was improving. I had some friends over and we had a few. The beer was still OK but I was not sold on it and I was thinking I could have used the hops for 2 more simple beers instead. At 2 weeks in the bottle I had 10 left and It was obvious that the beer was improving as it should be. At 14 days I had 2 or 3. I liked them... a lot. I now have 6 22oz bottles left and I am struggling to keep my hands off so that I can see what they are like in another week. Good stuff and I wish I would have been able to wait to start into them.

 

[GASoline71]

Out of curiosity... What schedule did you use for your fermenters to get a 3 week turnaround?

I was thinking maybe 10 days in primary and 7 days in secondary with the last 3 days of the 7 in the secondary being a crash cool with gelatin? That would leave 3 to 4 days to carb?

This will be my first time kegging so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Yooper... hoping you could answer this question that ThinBlueLine asked. Thinking about brewing this one for me next batch. Thanks for converting it over to Extract brew.

Adding the DME... do you just dump it in during the boil? I'm still in the LME stage and have yet to dump in any DME.

Thanks!

Gary

EDIT: I was a doofus and read right past where this (in bold) was answered in the initial recipie. LOL... sorry!

 

[paraordnance]

I have all ingredients except caramel 80. Any substitute for that? Special b, aromatic, amber malt or any others? Want to brew it tomorrow morning

 

[GASoline71]

Last silly question... I'm assuming this is a whole hop recipie? Even the boiling hops.

Gary

 

[coffeediver]

Made this today on my Kal clone Electric Brewery. Only change was just a little on the same hops to get to the same IBU. Did not have the flame out addition and will do whole hops for dry hopping and not pellets.

Barry

 

[Yooper]

Last silly question... I'm assuming this is a whole hop recipie? Even the boiling hops.

Gary

I use whatever I have- I think my cascades are almost always leaf hops, but my willamettes have always been pellets.

 

[GASoline71]

Thank you for your answer. I went to my LHBS today and they had both the Cascades and the Williamettes in pellets and whole. I went ahead and got pellets for the boil, and whole for the dry hop in the secondary. Picked up Wyeast1056 as well. The cat that runs te LHBS said this recipie looks really good and wants to know how it turns out. I'm gonna brew this up (extract brew) this monday.

Thanks again!

Gary

 

[HopLife]

Thank you for your answer. I went to my LHBS today and they had both the Cascades and the Williamettes in pellets and whole. I went ahead and got pellets for the boil, and whole for the dry hop in the secondary. Picked up Wyeast1056 as well.

Gary

I prefer pellets for dry hopping because I don't lose as much of the finished beer through absorption into the hop material. I use a hop straining bag or a spider in the boil, so I generally use the whole hops there when I have them.

Anyone else?

 

[coffeediver]

Using my Kal Electric Brewery clone I adjusted my ingredients for 90% efficiency. I mashed at 151 and collected enough for a 90 minute boil. Got starting gravity of 1.058 and now fermenting away at 68 in my ferm chamber.

Barry

 

[coffeediver]

This one is rocking in the primary, using a serving hose as a blow off, it is putting out 4 bubbles per second for 2 days and now has slowed to 2 bubbles a second.

Barry

 

[GASoline71]

Just got this settled into the Primary about 2 hours ago. My OG was off a tad... don't know if that's cuz I did the extract brew vs. AG. But as Alfred E. Neuman would say "What, me worry?"

Lookin' forward to seein' this beer through to completion.

Gary

 

[GASoline71]

Well... this went to bottle about a week ago. Like always... I do a one bottle "QA" test after about 5 to 7 days in the bottle.

Even for doin' an extract brew with specialty grains... this is the best beer I have brewed to date. Lookin' forward to it coming to completion in another 10 to 14 days in the bottles.

I'm gonna do it again, and change the hop bill, and see how it tunrs out. Thinkin' maybe Centennials and Fuggles.

Thanks Yoop!

Gary

 

[Robin0782]

Tomorrow morning I plan to brew a slightly modified version of this. I'm keeping the hop schedule, but I'm doing a partial mash. Here's the grain bill.

4 lbs Briess Golden DME
3 lbs Marris Otter
1.5 lbs Crystal 60L
1 lb Munich 10L

Safale US-05

It ought to be similar-ish, I imagine. Maybe a little light on the color, Promash says 12.7 but boiling the DME might get it a little darker. I tend to get 50-55% efficiency, so I should be around 1.052 for my OG. Wish I could figure out how to up my efficiency, but that's another thread. Excited to brew this.

 

[borden]

Brewing up this one tomorrow. I ferment in the basement and the ambient down there is about 60F, so I went with the US-05. Really looking forward to having a solid Amber this summer for when a lighter ale just won't cut it.

 

[frazier]

I've got this on the boil right now. Will be using some harvested Wy1450.

 

[Robin0782]

Tomorrow morning I plan to brew a slightly modified version of this. I'm keeping the hop schedule, but I'm doing a partial mash. Here's the grain bill.

4 lbs Briess Golden DME
3 lbs Marris Otter
1.5 lbs Crystal 60L
1 lb Munich 10L

Safale US-05

It ought to be similar-ish, I imagine. Maybe a little light on the color, Promash says 12.7 but boiling the DME might get it a little darker. I tend to get 50-55% efficiency, so I should be around 1.052 for my OG. Wish I could figure out how to up my efficiency, but that's another thread. Excited to brew this.

Been drinking this for over a week now. Pretty nice brew. I'm going all-grain so maybe later this year I'll brew up the recipe as originally written. I'm sure mine is a bit different, it's got a light caramel taste and a bit of a hop bite. I also went a touch high on the ABV, but it's pretty easy to put down a couple pints!

 

[part16john]

Brewing this one up tomorrow I dont have willamette so I will be substituting another hop. Ive been drinking a lot of amber ales lately so im excited for this.

 

[TallDan]

Just brewed a batch of this today. I'm using s-04 and put it in my fermentation chamber that doesn't have a controller yet and gets a little too cold.

 

[keezerj]

How does this one compare to your hoppy amber? I brewed that one and loved it, but I'm looking for something more sessionable. This could fit the bill.

 

[Yooper]

How does this one compare to your hoppy amber? I brewed that one and loved it, but I'm looking for something more sessionable. This could fit the bill.

That's a good question! It's different, and I never thought about comparing them. This was more of a "Bell's Amber" type of beer- hopped up a bit more, but not really what I would call a hoppy amber. It's a bit more subdued, and a bit more caramelly, I think.

 

[dapete]

Brewed this yesterday and I'm looking forward to the results!
Thanks again Yooper!

 

[dapete]

Never used S-04 before. I blew off my airlock overnight after 24 hours. So I switched to blowoff tube and somehow it managed to blow that off as well. I hope nothing has been able to get in there and funk it up. I also smelled some of those fruity esters even though I've kept it in a water bath of 60 to 64 degree water. My guess is that the fermentation was so active that it may have reached higher 60's internally. This one is so messy that I'm going to move it to a secondary for dry hopping. I have never used a secondary before, but I've also never had one this messy.

 

[bigken462]

I saved this for a future recipe that I want to try. To make sure I understand the dry hop schedule, is it one week in primary, then dryhop the second week in secondary? On the original recipe it has 14 in primary, but just states "for dry hopping in secondary with no # of days.

Thanks much,

Ken

 

[Yooper]

I saved this for a future recipe that I want to try. To make sure I understand the dry hop schedule, is it one week in primary, then dryhop the second week in secondary? On the original recipe it has 14 in primary, but just states "for dry hopping in secondary with no # of days.

Thanks much,

Ken

I tend to never use a secondary anymore. Just add the dryhops 5-7 days before packaging. If you do rack to a clearing vessel, just dryhop for the last week.

 

[elproducto]

Finally going to brew this. Doing a 3 gallon stovetop BIAB.

 

[elproducto]

Drinking this now. Really nice recipe, thanks Yoop.