American Pale Ale Da Yooper's House Pale Ale

[jtratcliff]

I am planning on brewing this on Saturday as my second all grain. Question for everyone, I have an excess of magnum pellets and was thinking of using it as a fwh bittering hop. What does everyone think? Thus saving my cascade for flavor and aroma.

Should work well... I've used magnum for bittering in this recipe before to good effect.

EDIT TO ADD

looks like I used Warrior, not magnum...
From my notes, my planned hop schedule was:

Name Alpha Amount Use Time IBU
Warrior 16.0% 0.500 oz FWH 60.000 m 23.2
Warrior 16.0% 0.250 oz Boil 60.000 m 10.6
Warrior 16.0% 0.250 oz Boil 30.000 m 8.1
Cascade 4.0% 0.500 oz Boil 10.000 m 1.9
Cascade 4.0% 1.000 oz Boil 0.000 s 0.0
Cascade 4.0% 1.000 oz Dry 4.000 d 0.0

I meant to then adjust that for no-chill using The_Pol's chart. I forgot to do it for the 1/4 oz at 60m but did adjust for the other additions.

It's been awhile so I can't recall how it compared to the original recipe but I wouldn't hesitate to use warrior again.

I've also done a version with Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus for bittering.

 

[browder]

Me and my oldest were drinking Yooper's Ale yesterday while boiling another batch of the same--got pretty well toasted before we got done-----

 

[attyindaburgh]

Brewed my second all grain and my first yooper. I hit all my numbers and was able to overcome the glitches that popped up. I used magnum for the bittering and moved the cascades towards the end, using beersmith to make sure I had the correct amounts. I also used nottingham since my basement is the right temperature now. Wish me luck.

 

[TallahasseeBrew]

Put this on tap earlier today, gotta say, this beer is freakin great! great malt flavor, good bitterness and hop flavor and aroma, just an all around great beer

 

[EJay]

Cracked open my first one. It was still a little warm which is probably why there's so much head. Tastes great! Can't wait to let the rest age and condition a little longer.

 

[attyindaburgh]

Fermentation started to show signs this morning. Less then 24 hours, but still makes me nervous while waiting.

 

[TheHairyHop]

Fermentation started to show signs this morning. Less then 24 hours, but still makes me nervous while waiting.

No need to worry about fermentation unless you've done something egregiously wrong. RDWHAH

 

[MagicRat]

I'm brewing this Friday but I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on bumping this recipe up into IPA range? Preferably on the lower end of the IBU range. Has anybody done this?

 

[TheHairyHop]

I'm brewing this Friday but I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on bumping this recipe up into IPA range? Preferably on the lower end of the IBU range. Has anybody done this?

that's all I do. I just add 2 lbs of 2-row and up the flameout to be something near 5 oz or so (depending on the variety and IBU)

 

[Nightstrife]

I also bump this by a pound of MO, comes out to near IPA range. Getting like 6.7 abv ish, with a good bitter. I did change the hops on my last batch. I used El dorado, calculated to the same rough ibu's as my original batch of this. My original batch used 5.4 AA Cascade hops. So i matched that. Delicious

 

[TheHairyHop]

Ah, I guess that I should add that I don't use MO, I use just a pale 2 row. I'm not sure how an extra 2 lbs of MO will go. I'm such a minority with this, but I can't stand MO, especially in a lighter beer like an IPA

 

[Nightstrife]

Judt curious what differs with the 2 row vs MO? I may wabt to sub that next time

 

[TheHairyHop]

MO just tastes like brown bread crust to me. There are a lot of comparison threads around. It tends to get "deeper" and "toastier" as descriptions

 

[Nightstrife]

Thank you! Looks like I now have more homework...

 

[MagicRat]

Brewed this today from the recipe - only changes were that I used a whole oz. at 30 minutes instead of .75 and I added the last 2 oz. together at 5 minutes.
Had trouble hitting my mash temp - started out a little low then added too much and ended up over. I was about 30 minutes in before I got on target so I let the mash go about 10 minutes over. Not sure if that was the right thing to do there or not.
My OG was 1.044 - does that sound right or is it low?

 

[MagicRat]

Forgot to correct for temperature so OG was actually 1.045 or 1.046.

 

[jtratcliff]

I also use 2 row but throw a lb or so of victory in to get it MO-ish

 

[midfielder5]

Just brewed this as a No Sparge, No Chill, No Yeast Wash. I dropped the specialty malts a bit to lower the gravity a bit {for less calories} and use what I had. OG 1.047.
My second Yooper brew in a row!

 

[brewmesomewater]

Fixing to do yooper's recipe exactly the way he did it but scaled down to a 1 gallon batch and tweak as I need. (doubt I'll need to, he's brilliant)

 

[jbb3]

Fixing to do yooper's recipe exactly the way he did it but scaled down to a 1 gallon batch and tweak as I need. (doubt I'll need to, he's brilliant)

LOL... Does that sig look like a "he"?

1 gal batch? Now I'm trying to figure out who's the girl...

JUST KIDDING!!!

 

[brewmesomewater]

LOL... Does that sig look like a "he"?

1 gal batch? Now I'm trying to figure out who's the girl...

JUST KIDDING!!!

I'm on my phone and its easy to have a typo, and yeah I don't have room for 5 gallon but some home brew is better than no-brew. But yeah I'm a dude but if yooper was to give me her skills yuall could call me whatever you wan!

 

[Jwin]

I'm scaling this up to 11g to break in my new spiedel.
Going with:
18# 2row
9# Vienna
5# Munich
1# Briess caramel 20
1# Weyermann CaraMunich III

Any opinions or objections?
I like MO, especially in my bipas, but I was trying to keep this closer to 50c a bottle and going w 2row saved me about $10.
Will be pitching heady topper
Warrior bittering, centinial boil and steep additions (have .5# in the freezer) and DH with 1oz EA of zythos and falconers 7Cs
7.5-8.5 depending on if I throw in a lb of dextrose

 

[Jwin]

Any feedback or recommendations?

 

[Jwin]

this will be my first 10g batch, breaking in the new 60l speidel that came in yesterday. about to get the water going. I upped the gravity w beersmith, then rounded off, so the ratio isnt perfect, but we'll see.

Amt Name Type # %/IBU
18 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 51.4 %
9 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 2 25.7 %
5 lbs Munich Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) Grain 3 14.3 %
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) Grain 4 2.9 %
1 lbs caramunich III - 57L (57.0 SRM) Grain 5 2.9 %
1.00 oz Warrior [15.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7 19.6 IBUs
1.00 oz Falconers Seven Seas [9.70 %] - Dry Hop Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
2.00 oz Centennial [8.70 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 8 17.5 IBUs
2.00 oz Centennial [8.70 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 10 8.2 IBUs
2.00 oz Centennial [8.70 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 11 4.5 IBUs
2.00 oz Centennial [8.70 %] - Aroma Steep 0.0 mi Hop 12 0.0 IBUs
0.55 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining 9 -
1.0 pkg Vermont IPA Conan (Gigayeast #) Yeast 13 -
1.00 oz Zythos [10.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
1 lbs Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 6 2.9 %

 

[MagicRat]

Cracked one of these open a little while ago, not fully carbonated. Turned out great!
This was only my second batch so the efficiency wasn't there to get the ABV where it should be (batch is about 4.5) so, to me, it's a little unbalanced on the hoppy side (plus my Cascades were packaged as 8.9% and I used a half ounce more than called for). That's something easily fixed next time but for now this is still a great looking, very drinkable pale.
Love it!

 

[chuckcomm]

Mine has been fermenting a week and still has airlock activity. Another week and I will dry hop..thinking citra for that. This will be my fist kegged beer and I am really looking forward to it.

 

[brewmesomewater]

Brewed this recipe again with an addition of flaked wheat to the grain bill for some a better head.

Holy mother of krausen in 6 hours my blow off tube is screamin. I checked it at hour 3 just because, well because it's my beer! And saw krausen reaching the air lock. Luckily I caught it and put on the blow off but I'm afraid to go to bed, got a feeling I might wake up to a krausen cannon, if so I'm a good sport and will post pictures.

 

[Jwin]

Brewed this recipe again with an addition of flaked wheat to the grain bill for some a better head.

Holy mother of krausen in 6 hours my blow off tube is screamin. I checked it at hour 3 just because, well because it's my beer! And saw krausen reaching the air lock. Luckily I caught it and put on the blow off but I'm afraid to go to bed, got a feeling I might wake up to a krausen cannon, if so I'm a good sport and will post pictures.

Wow. That's some quick activity!

 

[brewmesomewater]

Wow. That's some quick activity!

I did two different brews back to back and they both started incredibly fast. I usually see a thin layer of krausen forming at hour 12, not full blown foamy goodness!

66 degrees in the closet with a cold wet towel wrapping them both to about 60-62.

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[Jwin]

I did my the recipe posted above, but came up short on volume. Since upgraded my 12g cooler mash tun to a 30g I scored on Craigslist for $25. No more volume issues now. Anyway, I was happy to get a solid krausen in 10 hours w a 1l starter.

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