Took a 1st place in "Son of Brewzilla" competition

[logdrum]

American Pale Ale. Funny thing is, I didn't feel that was my strongest entry. At any rate, now I'm brewing award winning beers!

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[slothorentropy]

Congrats! I saw the flyer for this the other day when looking for OH homebrew competitions. I've got a couple of things in the pipeline I think are really remarkable and that I want to enter somewhere.

 

[logdrum]

I think the score sheets are excellent feedback; I entered my 2nd & third ever brews last years & used the comments to up my game.

-d

 

[Bradinator]

Way to go!! Care to share the recipe with the rest of us?

 

[logdrum]

Here you go, pretty much a straight up APA:

Parkway Pale

10# 2 row Pale Malt
1# 60L

.5 oz Magnum 60 min
.75 oz Ahtanum 20 min
.75 oz Centennial 20 min
2 oz Ahtanum 2 min
.6 oz Cascade DH 14 days
.6 oz Centennial DH 14 days

Mash @ 152-154, cool, pitch healthy starter of 1272. Ferment & rack as usual. I went about 10 days @ 68*F Got about 81% efficiency for OG 1.059, 49 IBUs
You could probably sub Cascade for the Ahtanum-my experience w/ Cleveland water is that Cascade tends to get harsh over 15 mins.

-d

 

[unionrdr]

I also keep Cascade additions at the low end,10 minutes or less. Seems like a lot of hops for an APA to me @ 5.2oz total. I used 6oz in my IPA at 6G total volume,& it was at the flavor level of many regular IPA's I get around here. Sounds like a good combo though. Congrats on the win,I looked at that a few times myself.