Little Rest Pale Ale

[Peregris]

Recipe Type

All Grain

Yeast

Wyeast 1272 - American Ale II

Yeast Starter

none

Batch Size (Gallons)

5

Original Gravity

1.064

Final Gravity

1.014

Boiling Time (Minutes)

60

IBU

53

Color

15

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

12 @ 67

Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

1 (cold-crash) @ 40

Tasting Notes

Nice balance between hops and malt.

I was inspired by Heavy Seas Pale Ale, which uses a good portion of English ingredients. The Marris Otter and the Victory give it a little biscuity flavor, and the English hops give a nice supplement to the typical American Ale Cascade flavor.

4 # 2-Row
4 # Crisp Marris Otter
1# American Victory
.8# Crystal 20
.2# Crystal 40

1 oz Fuggles, 5.1%, at 60m
.5 oz EKG, 5.9%, at 60m
.5 oz Cascade, 5.0%, at 60m
.5 oz Cascade, 5.0%, at 15m
1 oz Cascade, 5.0%, at 5m
.5 oz EKG, 5.9%, at 5m

Wyeast 1272 - American Ale II

Mashed at 151 for 60m, batch sparged.

I forgot to add the Whirlfloc and tried to gelatin fine it, but it's still a little cloudy. Also, the bucket was in the basement laundry room, which has AC, but we had 2-3 days of close to 100F heat so the fermentation might have gotten a little hot - but no off-flavors are detected.

Turned out real nice. I'm having a hard time trying to keep some of this around for a little while.