American Pale Ale Lake Walk Pale Ale

[Warrenbic]

Went through a few dozen pages, and search wasn't helping out...

I know 05 is a nice clean work house that is very consistant for me...

Just curious if anyone has tried wlp007 for a tad drier or wlp051 for a fuller body?

Just looking for some ideas before I brew this sunday.

I just brewed this on 5/11/13 and used S-04, I was about use use 1056 (which has become my go to yeast) but the guy at the home brew store was raving about 04... I hope it turns out good.

 

[atimmerman88]

I ended up scaling the recipe to make 7.5 gallons ---- 5.5 are on US05 and 2 are on WLP051 just for grins.

We'll see how the fuller bodied version compares with 051

 

[kennyg]

Just got done bottling. 47 x 12oz bottles
OG 1.050
FG 1.014
4.73 ABV

Tastes delicious! Nice bittering and aromatic hop. I'm throwing a party two weeks from tomorrow and I'm sure it will impress. Thanks dude!

 

[rossi46]

I made a batch of this with victory instead of toasted malt. Not sure how this differs from the original, but it's damn good.

 

[atimmerman88]

I hate to be another too add the...tasted great but I think I have too.

This has been the best tasting beer at 1 week I've ever made. Can't wait to try it in the bottle, and compare it to the 051 side of it too!

 

[trapae]

Can anyone who has made this Brew chime in for me and tell me if lake walk tastes like 90 minute dogfish head ipa? The reason I ask is I'm one of those few rare people who don't like the 90 minute dogfish head. Something about the taste just isn't right for me. I looked up the recipes and it is also made with Amarillo and Simcoe. Different malt bill and amounts of hops though.
Thanks

T

 

[rossi46]

Can anyone who has made this Brew chime in for me and tell me if lake walk tastes like 90 minute dogfish head ipa? The reason I ask is I'm one of those few rare people who don't like the 90 minute dogfish head. Something about the taste just isn't right for me. I looked up the recipes and it is also made with Amarillo and Simcoe. Different malt bill and amounts of hops though.
Thanks

T

I made this with victory instead of home toasted malt. It tastes nothing like DFH 90. In my opinion it is a much better tasting brew.

 

[Warrenbic]

Can anyone who has made this Brew chime in for me and tell me if lake walk tastes like 90 minute dogfish head ipa? The reason I ask is I'm one of those few rare people who don't like the 90 minute dogfish head. Something about the taste just isn't right for me. I looked up the recipes and it is also made with Amarillo and Simcoe. Different malt bill and amounts of hops though.
Thanks

T

DFH 90 is an imperial IPA, this is pale ale... Not even close to the same. I like DFH 90 but I can see why some might not enjoy it, this will be closer to a Sierra Nevada style pale ale.

 

[cwdrake]

I'd say this is pretty close to Dogfish Head 60 minute in taste.

 

[kennyg]

2 weeks in the bottle, can't stop sneaking them...I know I should wait a bit but this beer is so damned good!

So my og was a bit low 1.050 and fg maybe a but high at 1.014, making abv about 4.7
Tastes great, just so good. probably better to have lower alcohol!

Usually when I'm trying a new beer I go to BA to read some reviews. I sat down with my lwpa, took a sip and instantly thought "what would the bros think of this one?" before it dawned on me that I MADE this amazing brew!!!!

 

[njale]

i brewed this one a few times and its one of my favorites but i'm going to try brewing it with mosaic replacing the simcoe

 

[MW66]

This has been carbonating in the keg for a little over 1 week and I took a small sample. Outstanding!! I've been trying to get a PA that I can feature as my "Haus Ale" and always have on tap. I think I've found it. I followed the recipe, but scaled it based on my efficiency and batch size. I found some Amarillo (scarce) and I used Safale US-05. I hit the OG and FG pretty much spot on, I mashed pretty high at 155 F, and I fermented for two weeks at 65F before drying hopping for 5 days in the keg. I then removed my hop tea balls and carbonated and chilled in my keezer. I wouldn't change a thing. We'll see how this tastes after a week or two in the keg. It should be even better as the flavors mellow.

 

[cobalt60]

Five gallons in the fermenter after a near-perfect brew day.

This was the first time I had used Amarillo or Simcoe, and I kept sniffing the hops. The tropical fruit aromas are amazing! I can't wait for this one to go into the keg.

Thanks for the great recipe Dude!

 

[loetz]

Well, I think I mucked this one up a bit. My preboil gravity came in at 1.040 instead of 1.050 and I was trying to have a preboil of 50 liters or 13.2gal for a 12 gal batch, but I ended up with more like 11.5 gal or 44 liters because I had to throw out some of the later runnings because they were too watery. I'm not sure what happened to my efficiency this time.

Do you have any suggestions for how to hop this thing now? I figure that I will cut back the 60 and 20 min additions a bit, but I'm not sure exactly how much to cut.

I would just boil it until I get my target gravity, but it's already too dark as it is. I wonder if the toasted malt that I used was converted more than I thought it was.

 

[Sippin37]

Well, I think I mucked this one up a bit. My preboil gravity came in at 1.040 instead of 1.050 and I was trying to have a preboil of 50 liters or 13.2gal for a 12 gal batch, but I ended up with more like 11.5 gal or 44 liters because I had to throw out some of the later runnings because they were too watery. I'm not sure what happened to my efficiency this time.

Do you have any suggestions for how to hop this thing now? I figure that I will cut back the 60 and 20 min additions a bit, but I'm not sure exactly how much to cut.

I would just boil it until I get my target gravity, but it's already too dark as it is. I wonder if the toasted malt that I used was converted more than I thought it was.

Why dont you just top up and add DME? If no DME on hand then I'd say cut back the hop additions by the same percentage that you missed your target OG. Atleast do that for the 60 min addition, you can keep the late additions the same, wont contribute many more IBUs anyways.

 

[loetz]

I don't have any DME, I'll cut back on the 60 min by 80% and the 20 min by around 80 or 90%

 

[loetz]

I'm a *******. My gravity reading was off, and the beer will be ok without changing the hops. I did the first addition just now without a change. Thanks for the help anyway!

 

[bzwyatt]

I am brewing this today, my third all grain batch (first two were Centennial Blonde and Nazz Session IPA from Zymurgy). I got whole hops for dry hopping, and my LBHS only had Amarillo in whole, so that is going into the boil.

I got a separate 2lbs of 2-row to toast in the oven, but when I checked out the guy there said Victory malt is just roasted 2-row and I could have gotten that. Anybody know if that is true?

 

[shelly_belly]

Victory would be very similar to lightly toasted 2-row. Your guy was right.

 

[njale]

victory is stronger though, use 1 pound instead of 2

 

[bzwyatt]

My OG was 1.061, maybe 1.062. I finished with little less than 5 gallons, maybe that is the biggest factor... but I think I'm doing ok on my efficiency, especially with only 3 AG batches done so far and batch sparging in a rectangular cooler.

 

[rossi46]

I made it with victory, 2 lbs, it was great.

 

[SuperCrossBun]

If I want to substitute the toasted pale malt for biscuit malt, how much should I use?

 

[rossi46]

i would sub it out in equal amounts.

 

[bzwyatt]

Oohh... yummy... gravity at 1.011~1.012, tastes great already... I want to bottle but I'll wait a couple days...

 

[njale]

If I want to substitute the toasted pale malt for biscuit malt, how much should I use?

1pound to 1.5pounds

 

[rossi46]

Toasting some 2 row right now. Going to make an 11 gallon batch.

 

[BeerGrylls]

Just brewed this recipe this weekend. While I was toasting the malt, my house smelled fantastic. Got it fermenting in a swamp cooler with US-05 direct sprinkle. However, I made an 'oops' and added the 20-minute simcoe addition @ 60 minutes along with the Amarillo. Beersmith says that will give me about 64 IBUs vs the 52 I wanted. Since I hit the OG at 1.053 bang-on, that makes it 1.2 IBU/SG instead of .98. I hope it doesn't taste like bug spray, but the wort smells like magic. Thanks, Dude!

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Just brewed this recipe this weekend. While I was toasting the malt, my house smelled fantastic. Got it fermenting in a swamp cooler with US-05 direct sprinkle. However, I made an 'oops' and added the 20-minute simcoe addition @ 60 minutes along with the Amarillo. Beersmith says that will give me about 64 IBUs vs the 52 I wanted. Since I hit the OG at 1.053 bang-on, that makes it 1.2 IBU/SG instead of .98. I hope it doesn't taste like bug spray, but the wort smells like magic. Thanks, Dude!

Not to worry at all if you enjoy hoppy beer. You just made a "session IPA"

 

[BeerGrylls]

Not to worry at all if you enjoy hoppy beer. You just made a "session IPA"

That'd work for me, although I would like to have had the flavor from that simcoe. I'll just up the dry hop by ~25% or so.