Can you Brew It recipe for Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale

[Quaker]

Just brewed up a batch. Perfectly smooth day. Thanks Eric for all the work you've put into transcribing the CYBI recipes.

 

[AnchorBock]

I brewed a 10 gallon batch following this recipe and it was gone before I had the chance to try it side-by-side with the commercial version. Going to brew it again in a few weeks.

 

[Tinpanharry]

Is the dry hopping done in the primary or secondary? I have this one in the kettle now, moving it to the carboy within the hour

 

[terrenum]

I usually brew all grain but it is very cold at this time of the year in Montreal. Anyone has a partial mash version of the Mirror Pond clone?
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[EricCSU]

I usually brew all grain but it is very cold at this time of the year in Montreal. Anyone has a partial mash version of the Mirror Pond clone?
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Try the link in my signature.

Eric.

 

[EricCSU]

Is the dry hopping done in the primary or secondary? I have this one in the kettle now, moving it to the carboy within the hour

Primary. No need to secondary this beer.

Eric

 

[AnchorBock]

Just brewed this today for the 2nd time. Going to do a blind tasting this time around. Ill post an update in about 6 weeks.

 

[AnchorBock]

Ended up with 1.052 OG, 1.012 FG. Dry hopping in the keg now, will probably pull out the hops and carb it up this weekend. I said six weeks initially, but this tasted great at day 10 so I opted for a shorter primary. It was pretty clear already so it shouldn't need too much conditioning time - gotta love 002.

 

[mxpx5678]

I did this recipe as my first all grain batch. Got a 1.056 so I was pretty happy about that. It had great color. Plan on fermenting for 2 weeks then dry hopping. Probably going to use hop bags.

 

[Soldevi]

I also racked this to the keg today. I used all Marris Otter and US-04 yeast. I know it's probably not going to be much of a clone, but its pretty damn good.

I decided not to dry hop this as the flavor was to my liking. That may be a mistake, we will see.

I also had a SG of 1.056 that fermented down to 1.015.

Can't wait for this to carb up.

 

[mxpx5678]

Took a gravity reading today and I am down to 1.010. A little low. But it tastes awesome. Going to dry hop on Wednesday and keg this weekend.

 

[AnchorBock]

Mine is mostly carbed and tastes really good, going to pick up some mirror pond soon and try them side by side. I dry hopped 5 days.

 

[DSmith]

I'm brewing a batch of this with the only recipe change is using Rahr Pale Ale malt (Not the Rahr American 2-Row malt) because it's available locally.

Does anyone have information about carbonation? I read some Beeradvocate reviews and people call it "moderate" carbonation. Any advice for bottling priming this clone?

 

[AnchorBock]

I think I went with about 2 or so volumes which seemed the same as the commercial example.

 

[DSmith]

I'm brewing a batch of this with the only recipe change is using Rahr Pale Ale malt (Not the Rahr American 2-Row malt) because it's available locally.

Does anyone have information about carbonation? I read some Beeradvocate reviews and people call it "moderate" carbonation. Any advice for bottling priming this clone?

I emailed Deschutes about Mirror Pond carbonation and got this response:

"When we pour Mirror Pond in our tasting room in Bend, the pressure is at 12-14 psi and we store it at 43 degrees."

This equals 2.3-2.5 vol CO2

 

[jbsg02]

brewed this yesterday and my efficiency must have went through the roof, I ended up with 6.25 gallons at about 1.063

 

[timmy7649]

I brewed a 10 gallon batch following this recipe and it was gone before I had the chance to try it side-by-side with the commercial version. Going to brew it again in a few weeks.

could i snag your 10 gallon recipe?

 

[AnchorBock]

could i snag your 10 gallon recipe?

You should be able to just use the 5 gallon batch and scale it up to 10 gallons for your system (assuming you have beersmith) - that's all I did. If you don't have beersmith simply double the 5 gallon batch and factor in grain absorption, boil off, etc for 10 gallons instead of 5. Feel free to PM me if you need anything on this.

 

[buzzno]

I brewed a 10 gallon batch of this 2 weeks ago and just kegged it with 2oz of dry hops last night. It's my first time dry hopping in the keg so I'm interested to see how it turns out. I have it sitting in my basement with 12psi on it. I'll try it next weekend and report how it tastes. A sample from my hydro reading was really tasty!

My OG ended up being 1.049 with a FG of 1.010.

 

[Sock]

Way overshot my gravity at 1.061 watered it down to 1.057. I couldn't bring myself to add anymore water...
New store with a different mill setting, way higher efficiency.

 

[buzzno]

I only have a have about a dozen brews under my belt but this is one of the tastier ones. I used way more dry hops than what is called for and I really like it. I used 2oz in 5gal and left it in the keg. It just keeps getting better and better every day!

 

[hogwash]

Just brewed this today with Rahr Pale Ale Malt as the base and I'm using WY1272 for the yeast. I'll report back with my results.

 

[hogwash]

Just brewed this today with Rahr Pale Ale Malt as the base and I'm using WY1272 for the yeast. I'll report back with my results.

Having an under carbonated pint of this right now and it's friggin great! Love the 1272 with this recipe. I also dry hopped with 2.5 oz instead of one...oops! Actually I meant to do it, was finishing off a pound bag and figured I'd just throw them all in. Anyway, I highly recommend this one. Great recipe.

 

[terrenum]

Will brew this on Sunday

Will try one carboy with wyeast 1968 and one carboy with s-04
Curious to see which one will turn out the best

Using chinook for bittering as the local cascade here in montreal is at 4.4 AA

Planning a 70 minute boil
Will report results in 3-4 weeks

Used 80% Marris Otter and 20% 2-row malt
Can't have great west pale here....

 

[terrenum]

Will brew this on Sunday

Will try one carboy with wyeast 1968 and one carboy with s-04
Curious to see which one will turn out the best

Using chinook for bittering as the local cascade here in montreal is at 4.4 AA

Planning a 70 minute boil
Will report results in 3-4 weeks

And will use 80% marris otter and 20% 2-row do not have access to great west pale....

 

[terrenum]

I followed the recipe but used 80% maris otter and 20% 2-row for the pale malt as the nortwes is not available over here. I used safale us04 for yeast and ended at 1.010. Wondering if the fact that my FG is slightly lower than planned could contribute to the lack of malt flavor.
Clues anyone?
Thanks

 

[ArchiBish]

Now if I could just get some of that great water they have up there...

I heard that the city of Bend is looking to pass a law to limit the number of breweries because they are concerned about possible water shortages. Evidently a lot of water is being exported by all those breweries over there. That or the existing breweries don't want any more competition?

http://www.ktvz.com/news/Bend-s-Big...sues/-/413192/15292074/-/bi5ok0z/-/index.html

C'mon over to Eugene/Springfield. We're lousy with great H2O! (For now)

 

[brokebucket]

I just brewed this one yesterday, slightly dumbed down, because I am looking for a good pale ale that is not overly hoppy, and I am ok if I dont nail the clone:

I did 60/40 marris otter to american 2 row, Crystal 77, and carafoam. 65 minute boil with an ounce of cascade FWH. Everything else I kept the same.

My brother in law is bringing me back a 6 pack from out west, I look forward to tasting this beer, and seeing if I can brew something along the same lines as such a revered beer. I will post up in a month or so.

 

[kedash]

I've brewed this beer twice now. I use 100% Marris Otter as the base malt in addition to the two specialty malts. I also use my homegrown Cascades and free yeast from a local brewery. After getting a good deal buying the malt in bulk, this beer ends up costing me about 25 cents per pint and is delicious. I guess I'm not counting the water I use growing the hops, but either way, a very inexpensive and wonderful pale ale.

 

[mexicola1]

Tonight I kegged my first attempt at this clone and noticed for the first time, after many previous samples, an apple smell. I deviated from the recomended yeast by using Wyeast #1332. I pitched a 125 mL swollen smack pack into 3 gallons of 65 deg F oxygenated wort and held the temp for 7 days before raising to 68 for 2 days. I then raised the incubator to 70 for 2 days before cold crashing to 65 for about 1 day and then down to 35 for 36 h. I was actually hoping for some ester formation and is the reason why I chose this strain. My girl friend smells better than I can (and better than me too, im sure) and she's not so sure it's a green apple smell but the first thing that came to her mind was apple. Im wondering if this is from ethanal(aka acetaldehyde, but EASIER to spell!) or maybe an ester? Also, it doesnt taste like apple, and not slickness or hotness, but actually maybe young/green. Gravities were OG 1.053 and FG 1.014.

Thanks for clone info btw, awesome.