American Pale Ale Da Yooper's House Pale Ale

[Toecutter]

Ok.Just put 10 gallons of this in the fermenter. I subbed CaraMunich for the Crystal 20 and used 2 row for the base malt. I used 2 oz Columbus 12.2 @ 60, 1 oz Columbus @ 30 and 2 oz Amarillo 7.5 @ 5 min. I calculate 49 IBU's. The wort tasted great, my OG came in at 1.053

Well the nottingham ignited about midnight, when I got up this morning at 4 a.m. it was tearing through it like Sherman through the south, fermentation bottle working like a washing machine. It warmed up here the last few days, so the house is about 70 dg, about the upper end for nottingham

 

[Yooper]

I just kegged this, and didn't dryhop this time. It's still really, really good! I'm happy with the small change I made, with chinook for bittering and .5 ounce of chinook at 5 minutes.

I know it's only two weeks old right now, but I still had a good sized sample just to check!

 

[Toecutter]

alright, I just racked 10 gallons of this to secondary. It was pretty clear coming out of the primary already. interesting color. I thought it would be darker, it was more of an Amber/Orange. I dropped 2 oz of Columbus pellets in for dry hopping. we will give it a week or so, then keg it

 

[Toecutter]

i just filtered and kegged and cold crashed 10 gallons last night. I force carbed overnight at 30 psi, and I just finished backing it down to 12 psi. I'm at 3.5 weeks.

Yoop, if your reading this thread, i havent sampled this yet, when would be best to start serving ??

 

[WrathsU]

Weeee just brewed this yoop!

Changed it up just a bit so interested in seeing how it comes out. I hopped with the same amount of cascade in OP but hopped it in at different times. A quarter went in at 5min, a quarter went in at 10min, an eighth went in at 15 and an eighth went in at 20 and so on and so forth. I put larger quantities up front for a better bittering taste and kept the 1/2oz at 5min and flameout for good aroma. I pitched Thames Valley and put an oz of cascade in for primary dry hopping.

Gonna rack to secondary after 10 days and age 1/2 on white oak for 2 weeks then compare. Thanks for the recipe and I hope I didn't butcher it too much!

 

[Slowfro]

Brewed the 2nd batch of this on Saturday but changed a little from the first. LHBS was out of Cascades so I used centennial and modified for a little higher IBU. Hops were 9.1% (cascades last time were 7.5) so I did 1oz for 60, 1oz for 30, 1/2oz for 10 and 1/2oz for 5. I have 1 more ounce for dryhopping. OG was 1.053 and bubbling nicely! Great beer Yooper!

 

[Yooper]

i just filtered and kegged and cold crashed 10 gallons last night. I force carbed overnight at 30 psi, and I just finished backing it down to 12 psi. I'm at 3.5 weeks.

Yoop, if your reading this thread, i havent sampled this yet, when would be best to start serving ??

I drink it pretty young, but it improves while we're drinking it. Probably 6 weeks is a good guideline.

 

[Patstarr777]

I'm new to this and wondering, why do you brew grains around 154f instead of boiling them?

 

[rico567]

Specifically, you're only doing a part of "brewing," in this case termed mashing. Mashing is when the enzymes in the malt are used to convert the starches in the grain to sugar. This takes place at a temperature range (usually from the high 140s to mid 150s, Fahrenheit). If you go over 170F, you will denature (destroy) the enzymes, and no wort (the liquid that is fermented to make beer) will be produced.

NB: boiling comes later, which is used to utlilize hops, etc. I suggest you go through the pertinent chapters in John Palmer's How to Brew, free online at his website.

 

[Patstarr777]

Thanks! That helps.

 

[Toecutter]

I drink it pretty young, but it improves while we're drinking it. Probably 6 weeks is a good guideline.

your right. Been drinking it for about 3 days. seems to improve each day. i will use your exact recipe next time, the Columbus for bittering is a little much, but it is growing on me. Good beer.

 

[EricT]

Mashing this now, had to adjust hops amounts due to mine only being 5%. Also, I'm doing 5.5 gallons. Thanks for the recipe Yooper

 

[johnnybrew]

Made this again (first batch back in the Fall) on Saturday. Look forward to dry hopping and quaffing! This batch had an OG of 1.063; I was targeting 1.060.

Thanks again, YOOP!

 

[Toecutter]

I drink it pretty young, but it improves while we're drinking it. Probably 6 weeks is a good guideline.

Just passing 5 weeks and it gets better every day, The Columbus bittering is smoothing out. this brew really grows on you. glad i brewed 10 gallons, i have 5 more to spare.

 

[kcpup]

Yooper, I'll be brewing this in the next week or two. I read from earlier in this thread that you do some water adjustments. Right now I use ro water exclusively and do a cheat from a Ken Schwartz paper I read...add a few tablespoons of dme to the mash water to get some of the necessary minerals to convert the mash. It has worked well thus far re: efficiency.

However, do you have any suggestions about building water for this beer if I'm starting w ro? If not, no biggie but thought I'd check. Really looking forward to trying this one out. Craving a fragrant, easy drinking apa and your house brew looks like just the ticket.

 

[rico567]

Yooper, I'll be brewing this in the next week or two. I read from earlier in this thread that you do some water adjustments. Right now I use ro water exclusively and do a cheat from a Ken Schwartz paper I read...add a few tablespoons of dme to the mash water to get some of the necessary minerals to convert the mash. It has worked well thus far re: efficiency.

However, do you have any suggestions about building water for this beer if I'm starting w ro? If not, no biggie but thought I'd check. Really looking forward to trying this one out. Craving a fragrant, easy drinking apa and your house brew looks like just the ticket.

I brewed this last Fall with strictly RO water, and it turned out great.

 

[kcpup]

I brewed this last Fall with strictly RO water, and it turned out great.

Thanks, Rico.

 

[Yooper]

Strictly RO water should be fine- but if you want to add 1 teaspoon of Calcium Chloride to the water, it would be ok.

 

[EricT]

I used WLP-001 on this, its been in primary for a week. I made a 1L yeast starter for it and it seems to be taking a long time for the Krausen to drop, I realize its only been a week but usually my pale ales "appear" finished in the first week and are starting to clear. My OG was 1.059 and I am fermenting around 68 (as per WLP-001 directions) but with the amount of yeast I put in I wouldn't think it would take this long to fall.

 

[kcpup]

Strictly RO water should be fine- but if you want to add 1 teaspoon of Calcium Chloride to the water, it would be ok.

Many thanks, Yooper!

 

[jhw_murphy]

Thanks Yooper just put my first batch in the keg. It tastes great.

 

[Yooper]

I'm glad to hear it! I have to brew it again soon myself.

 

[suze]

just moved my batch to secondary and added the dry hops. It tastes awesome so far.
Do you think 1.5 weeks is too long on dry hops?

 

[johnnybrew]

Do you think 1.5 weeks is too long on dry hops?

I've dry hopped different brews anywhere from 5 days up to 2 weeks. Shorter times will mean you won't get all of the benefits from the hops. My 5 day batch should have been longer. I try to dry hop for at least 1 week.

Longer periods don't have any negative effect (someone correct me if I'm wrong). In fact, I think at some point you really don't benefit from a longer period of time. I think 2 weeks is about at the point where longer won't do you any good.

 

[Slowfro]

If you leave the beer dry hopping for too long you can get grassy flavors out of them. I typically cut it off at 10 days tops.

 

[suze]

Thanks for the advice. Trying to figure out when to bottle before or after vacation.

 

[smokewater]

Just bought the grain for this today. New brewer here. This will be my 4th batch. I bought a variety of hops today. My last 2 batches have been EdWorts hause pale ales. Since they are heavy on the Cascade hops I thought I would play with some Centennial on this batch to learn a little about hop flavors.

This is what I am considering for a hop schedule:

60 min .5oz Centennial 9.7
40 min .5 oz Cascade 7.4
10 min .5oz Centennial 9.7
5 min .5 oz Cascade 7.4

Think this will make a good beer? I will boil around 6.5 gallons of wort BIAB.

 

[smokewater]

Just bought the grain for this today. New brewer here. This will be my 4th batch. I bought a variety of hops today. My last 2 batches have been EdWorts hause pale ales. Since they are heavy on the Cascade hops I thought I would play with some Centennial on this batch to learn a little about hop flavors.

This is what I am considering for a hop schedule:

60 min .5oz Centennial 9.7
40 min .5 oz Cascade 7.4
10 min .5oz Centennial 9.7
5 min .5 oz Cascade 7.4

Think this will make a good beer? I will boil around 6.5 gallons of wort BIAB.

Brewed this up this afternoon/evening. It is my 4th beer. Brew day went well other than a thunderstorm blowing up right when I started the boil. Fortunately i was in my car port. I don't think a little rain mist in the boil will hurt my beer.

I screwed up my sparge. I heated 3 gallons of water in my other pot forgetting that the grain will not fit in there with that much water. I wound up pouring some of the water over my grain bed in the bag lined strainer into the boil pot. By the time I got the bag into the sparge pot the water had cooled to around 160. I heated the boil pot to 170 and tea bagged the grain bag but could not put all of it in there without overflowing my pot. I wound up with 1.040 pre boil wort. Boiled it down to 5.5 gallons and it came out at 1.050.

I really liked the taste of my sample. I also wound up with 2 quart mason jars of unboiled wort that I squeezed out of my grain bag. Can I use these as yeast starters if I boil them first?

Thanks for the recipe. I liked the color of the wort.

 

[EricT]

Just wanted to update my version of your recipe. I basically made an AIPA since the IBU's are around 55. I am dry hoping it to help with a little aroma to go along withthe Bitterness I'm surprised how sweet this is even though the FG came out to 1.011. Taste pretty good though. I will make this one again but with correct hop ammounts.

 

[EricT]

OK, so I have never dry hopped in a keg before. Is it normal to be cloudy the whole time? This beer was clearing nicely before i added the hops. I put .5 oz in a tea ball.