Friday, December 18, 2009

17 American Pale Ale: Take 3

This morning started off as a downer.... Dumped 4gal of Scottish 80/ down the drain. Mike (Shaky) Graham and I brewed it a few weeks ago, and it got infected. My theory is that a fruit fly made its way in to the fermenter during the transfer from the kettle. This set off a bacterial/wild yeast infection that made the beer unpleasant to say the least.

So now on to happier things! I'm running test batches of the beers that I plan on serving at my wedding. The first beer on the list of test batches is this American Pale Ale recipe I whipped up. I'm using a pretty basic pale ale malt bill, but opted to go overboard on aroma hopping from a few new hop varieties. I'm going 50/50 Sorachi Ace and Citra hops. Sorachi Ace is a Japanese hop with a pleasant, lemony aroma and flavor. Citra is a new high alpha American hop with a strong citrus punch character. This should give this beer a complex, aromatic, citrus character. Citra is one of my new favorites, and every Sorachi Ace hopped beer I've had has been fantastic... So this one should be bad ass to say the least.

17 Citrus Pale
American Pale Ale


Type: All Grain
Date: 12/18/2009
Batch Size: 3.00 gal
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Brew Pot (7.5 gal) and Cooler (48 qt)
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.00


Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.25 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 75.00 %
1.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 14.29 %
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 7.14 %
0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 3.57 %


5.00 gm Warrior [15.00 %] (60 min) Hops 15.6 IBU
5.00 gm Citra [10.00 %] (15 min) Hops 5.2 IBU
5.00 gm Sorachi Ace [12.00 %] (15 min) Hops 6.2 IBU
5.00 gm Citra [10.00 %] (10 min) Hops 3.8 IBU
5.00 gm Sorachi Ace [12.00 %] (10 min) Hops 4.5 IBU
5.00 gm Sorachi Ace [12.00 %] (5 min) Hops 2.5 IBU
5.00 gm Citra [10.00 %] (5 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
10.00 gm Sorachi Ace [12.00 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
10.00 gm Citra [10.00 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -

Dry Hop
10.00 gm Sorachi Ace [12.00 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
10.00 gm Citra [10.00 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.055
Est Final Gravity: 1.014
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.29 %
Est Color: 6.1 SRM Color: Color

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