American Pale Ale Lake Walk Pale Ale

[Benny Blanco]

Why did LWPA have to be my first gusher batch........

5 days after bottling with 3/4 cup corn sugar i opened one and had a slow gusher.
I tried another one and it didn't spill over the lip, but this can't be good.

I threw half my batch in the fridge. Would have put more in if I could fit it in there.
Guess I'll just wait and see.

 

[Benny Blanco]

Ok ok...false alarm. First time I had a gusher on a young beer so I thought the worst. Beer is fine.

Yes, I jumped the gun. Yes, I'm fine with that.

I...am enlightened.

Great beer. A very nice representation of what a true American Pale Ale should be. The yeast leaves this beer very clean as it should. Excellent hop flavor and ass-kicking aroma with a pleasing amber color. It has a soft bitterness due to the late hop additions which makes it more APA than IPA as far as I'm concerned. Jebus, I can drink this all night.

The only way I can think to improve this beer is to add a bit more malt/caramel sweetness to balance it a bit and fill it out just a touch. But, this is me being picky.

Dude, you hit a home run.


Brew this.

 

[olllllo]

I am sitting on 10 gallons of this.

Last night I took a growler to my Homebrew Club and it swept the balloting and garnered a Home Brewer of the Month Award!


Thanks Dude!

 

[EdWort]

I am sitting on 10 gallons of this.

Last night I took a growler to my Homebrew Club and it swept the balloting and garnered a Home Brewer of the Month Award!


Thanks Dude!

Congrats olllllo & Dude!

Perhaps it is Lake Walk Session IPA.

 

[korndog]

Congrats olllllo & Dude!

Perhaps it is Lake Walk Session IPA.

Way to go!!

I get rave reviews from my club members and will bring it to the June meeting as an APA. I will say that 3 BJCP judges thought it wasn't assertive enough on the pallete hops as an IPA when i entered it in a major contest. I am definitely calling this an APA as Dude suggests from now on. IBU's be damned, this is an American Pale Ale extraordinaire!

 

[EdWort]

Dude
I see you pulled the Centennial off the first page recipe. Can you remind me what the additions were. I omitted them from ProMash to see effect, but didn't write them down.

Thanks

See Yuri's 15 gallon scaled recipe here.

http://yuri.rage.googlepages.com/lakewalk_ag.htm

It has the centennial additions.

 

[olllllo]

Interesting aside about gender and simcoe hops:

http://appellationbeer.com/blog/a-hop-question-do-you-taste-beer-like-a-man/

Simcoe determines if you drink/smell beer like a man or like a woman.

 

[ohiodad]

Gonna give this one a whirl tomorrow in celebration of the 4th of July. Subbing in Victory for the toasted pale though because I don't have time to toast it tonight.. Anyone see a problem with that?

 

[korndog]

Gonna give this one a whirl tomorrow in celebration of the 4th of July. Subbing in Victory for the toasted pale though because I don't have time to toast it tonight.. Anyone see a problem with that?

Well, since you asked.....I substituted biscuit for one batch, and while I think it's fine to do, you need to back way off on the quantity.

 

[ohiodad]

Well, since you asked.....I substituted biscuit for one batch, and while I think it's fine to do, you need to back way off on the quantity.

Well I wound up subbing in 2 lbs of victory.. We'll see how it comes out now.. Too late to change it since I'm about 10 minutes from sparge now..

 

[Iechyd Da]

I have to give a big thanks to Dude for this recipe. I brewed this up and it was a big hit at our homebrew meeting yesterday. I had it on tap for our motorcycle club picnic yesterday also, and it didn't even last the day. I did play with the hops a little and used Centennial, Amarillo, Simco, and Summit. Beersmith had it at 39 IBUs on the Rager scale. It seemed very balanced with a huge hop flavor and aroma. Mine dried out a little more also, it went down to 1.008 from 1.055. This was my wifes favorite beer so far and will become a regular at our house.

 

[olllllo]

Down to my last 5gs of this.... Time to make 10 more. Toasting malt now.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

This will be among my first brews at the new place. FANTASTIC beer.

 

[EdWort]

Yes Dude! Thanks for the great recipe!

 

[korndog]

Down to my last 5gs of this.... Time to make 10 more. Toasting malt now.

I brewed 10 g's on Wednesday. The wife loves this beer; hell, everybody loves this beer!

 

[bashe]

I just transferred this to secondary. I could not get the hops that you called for so I went with Amarillo and Simcoe. Here is the recipe I ended up using, I tasted the sample from my hydrometer and wow is it hoppy.

5g Batch

4.40 lb Amber Liquid Extract (12.5 SRM) Extract 46.81 %
2.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 21.28 %
2.00 lb Toasted Malt (18.0 SRM) Grain 21.28 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 5.32 %
0.50 lb Wheat, Flaked (1.6 SRM) Grain 5.32 %
1.00 oz Amarillo [8.00 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
0.75 oz Amarillo [8.00 %] (60 min) Hops 21.4 IBU
0.75 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (20 min) Hops 21.0 IBU
1.00 oz Amarillo [8.00 %] (5 min) Hops 5.7 IBU
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (5 min) Hops 9.2 IBU
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) Yeast-Ale

 

[korndog]

Hey Dude
Check this out. I just won first place at the LA County Fair in the APA category with Lakewalk! Dig it.

 

[EdWort]

Hey Dude
Check this out. I just won first place at the LA County Fair in the APA category with Lakewalk! Dig it.

Wadago! Congrats!!!!

 

[korndog]

I just had the pleasure of being gifted a growler of Ballast Point Sculpin. I was thinking this has some similarity to my beloved Lakewalk and thought I would share this with the group. It's an IPA, but ever so smooth drinking with the unmistakable Amarillo/Simcoe combination. Not sure what else is there (probably Colombus, Centennial), but if you get a chance, you should try it. It has an unbelievably extravagant aroma. I heard rumor a Homebrewer brewed this for them.

Best
KD

 

[EdWort]

Sweet. I wish my daughter was 21 so she could go get some for me.

 

[korndog]

Sweet. I wish my daughter was 21 so she could go get some for me.

Ed, I have a bomber of it too. For all you have done for the forum, I will ship it to you as a gift. PM me your address.

KD

 

[korndog]

Has anyone tried moving any of the hop additions to FWH? Not that there is much room for improvement in this beer, but I was just wondering since lots of good beers seem to be FWHing lately.

 

[Baron ken]

Still learning, so don't eat me alive, but why are you using Amarillo for bittering? Wouldn't a higher-alpha hop (used in less quantity) be better? Is it just to keep the hops simpler (only 2 types)? Is it because the bittering hop is still providing flavor? Or is it because Amarillo provides a "smoother" bittering (unsure what this means at this point) and don't some other higher alpha hops do the same (e.g. Magnum)?
Just wondering because Amarillo is currently more expensive than other hops at my LHBS.

Thanks.

 

[korndog]

Is it because the bittering hop is still providing flavor? Or is it because Amarillo provides a "smoother" bittering (unsure what this means at this point) Just wondering because Amarillo is currently more expensive than other hops at my LHBS.
Thanks.

Can't speak for the Dude, but the answer to these questions is yes.

 

[korndog]

I have a bunch of Maris Otter. Anyone brew this with MO yet? I'm thinking of trying a hop tea for my next batch as an experiment in secondary. Anybody?

BTW, I over toasted my pale a bit last batch and beer was darker and obviously toastier. It didn't suck but I won't repeat it.

KD

 

[korndog]

Brewing a modified LW today. Just got my Freshops shipment in, so adding aback Centennial. Going to use Maris Otter for base malt and WY1272 for the yeast. Just for kicks.

 

[Chriso]

I now have Centennial, Amarillo, and thanks to trading with HarvinSTL, 2 oz of precious Simcoe. Looks like LWPA is in my near future. Hmmmm.

 

[korndog]

I now have Centennial, Amarillo, and thanks to trading with HarvinSTL, 2 oz of precious Simcoe. Looks like LWPA is in my near future. Hmmmm.

If you haven't brewed this yet, then get on it! It's our go to beer and loved by all.

 

[strohs]

Brewing this today.
In fact the two row is "toasting" right now.
Definitely excited for this brew!

 

[strohs]

CRAP!
I had my times messed up on my hop additions, so I added some more Amarillo at 60 mins.
BTP is telling me I am looking at 57 IBU!!!!
Wat I am looking at taste wise after this mistake???