Sir-Brews-Alot
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- Recipe Type
- All Grain
- Yeast
- Safale US-05
- Yeast Starter
- NA
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 2.75
- Original Gravity
- 1.057
- Final Gravity
- 1.010
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 60
- IBU
- 54.1
- Color
- 7.5
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 28 @ 60°F
- Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- NA
- Tasting Notes
- Hops
I've been doing a bunch of half batches this winter, so I can brew on my stove and this is one of my favorites! I wanted to do a tasty West Coast style pale ale. Something sessionable with an intense hop flavor up front, and a clean bitterness in the finish. I gotta say I am pretty happy with how this beer turned out. An intense citrus character, which initially was like a grapefruit bomb, but as the beer gets some age on it is starting to become more lemony and I am starting to get a nice honey-like malt character in the beer. As I was hoping, the bitterness is quite manageable and drops off the palate quickly. I've got no medals to back it up (don't enter contests....yet), but pale ales and IPAs are my favorite style, and I would be more than happy if I bought this from a commercial brewer. It tastes like an IPA but everything about it falls into BJCP style guidelines as a pale ale, except the IBUs which are over by 9 pts. (all calculations according to Beersmith of course.)
Water profile used- Ca: 75.8; Mg: 18.6; Na: 2.5; S04: 80.1; Cl: 25.1; HC03: 119.1
Brewed on Christmas Day. Used BIAB method. Mashed in at 152°F. Sacch rest for 60 minutes. Total boil volume of 4.5 gallons. Added a bit of sugar to bump the ABV a smidge but mostly to dry the beer out. With 74% brewhouse efficiency, OG: 1.048 w/o sugar. Boiled sugar in 4 cups water and added at high krausen. The 1.057 OG noted above is just what Beersmith gives me when I add a half pound of sugar to the recipe, not sure how accurate that is. Primary for 4 weeks @ 60°F, bottle conditioned to 2.1 volumes of CO2 for 3 weeks @ ~70°F and she's good to go. This should be quite easy to bump to a five or ten gallon batch, just keep the percentages/IBUs the same. In fact I intend to brew a full batch of this when the weather warms up a bit.
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 72.73 %
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 9.09 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 9.09 %
0.25 oz Citra [13.40 %] (60 min) Hops 22.8 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [13.40 %] (10 min) Hops 16.5 IBU
1.00 oz Ahtanum [5.20 %] (10 min) Hops 12.8 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [13.40 %] (1 min) Hops 2.0 IBU
1.00 oz Ahtanum [5.20 %] (0 min) Hops -
0.75 oz Citra [13.40 %] (0 min) Hops
1.00 oz Citra [13.40 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
1.00 oz Ahtanum [6.00 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops
0.50 lb Cane (Beet) Sugar (0.0 SRM) Sugar 9.09 %
1 Pkgs Safale S-05 (Fermentis) Yeast-Ale
BTW the beer isn't actually as dark as it appears in the photo, it's more of a golden/orange color than copper....I'll try to get a photo in natural sunlight next time I crack one open for a better representation of the coloration.
Water profile used- Ca: 75.8; Mg: 18.6; Na: 2.5; S04: 80.1; Cl: 25.1; HC03: 119.1
Brewed on Christmas Day. Used BIAB method. Mashed in at 152°F. Sacch rest for 60 minutes. Total boil volume of 4.5 gallons. Added a bit of sugar to bump the ABV a smidge but mostly to dry the beer out. With 74% brewhouse efficiency, OG: 1.048 w/o sugar. Boiled sugar in 4 cups water and added at high krausen. The 1.057 OG noted above is just what Beersmith gives me when I add a half pound of sugar to the recipe, not sure how accurate that is. Primary for 4 weeks @ 60°F, bottle conditioned to 2.1 volumes of CO2 for 3 weeks @ ~70°F and she's good to go. This should be quite easy to bump to a five or ten gallon batch, just keep the percentages/IBUs the same. In fact I intend to brew a full batch of this when the weather warms up a bit.
Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 72.73 %
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 9.09 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 9.09 %
0.25 oz Citra [13.40 %] (60 min) Hops 22.8 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [13.40 %] (10 min) Hops 16.5 IBU
1.00 oz Ahtanum [5.20 %] (10 min) Hops 12.8 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [13.40 %] (1 min) Hops 2.0 IBU
1.00 oz Ahtanum [5.20 %] (0 min) Hops -
0.75 oz Citra [13.40 %] (0 min) Hops
1.00 oz Citra [13.40 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
1.00 oz Ahtanum [6.00 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops
0.50 lb Cane (Beet) Sugar (0.0 SRM) Sugar 9.09 %
1 Pkgs Safale S-05 (Fermentis) Yeast-Ale
BTW the beer isn't actually as dark as it appears in the photo, it's more of a golden/orange color than copper....I'll try to get a photo in natural sunlight next time I crack one open for a better representation of the coloration.