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Trying to get some recipes nailed down for styles that I make regularly. Going to brew up an APA this Saturday morning and wanted to get some thoughts on the recipe:

77% Canadian 2-Row
15% Vienna
4% Crystal 15
4% Victory

Hops will be all Cascade:

1oz 60 min
1oz 30 min
2oz 15 min
2oz Flame out

Ferment with 1056 at 62ºF

Mash at 152ºF
OG 1.050
FG 1.011
6.0 SRM
49IBU

Any noticeable changes that I should be making?

Looks very good to me.

mr x wrote:Looks very good to me.

Excellent. I figured you'd likely approve of the late hopping.

nice. i love a good single hopped cascade pale ale

Next step in brewing good beer is water treatment.

mr x wrote:Next step in brewing good beer is water treatment.

Andy gave me a copy of the Amherst water report and I've been experimenting with trying to balance my water out a bit with brewing salts. Still a work in progress of course…

this looks good! I may have to give this a try...my to-brew list is growing by the day...lol

mckay75 wrote:this looks good! I may have to give this a try...my to-brew list is growing by the day...lol

Same here. This one has been sitting in BeerAlchemy for a few months.

So the brew day went off without a hitch. Looks like I'm getting pretty consistent numbers on my system now with regards to efficiency. Hit 78% once again so this one is going to finish out around 6% ABV rather than the planned 5%. Guess it's time to start adjusting my nominal gravity recipes for the higher efficiency.

Pitched a healthy starter of 3rd generation 1272 and within 3 hours I was seeing extremely active fermentation. Hoping this one ferments out fast so I can get it into bottles and start drinking it as the samples I had of the wort were quite tasty.

nice! wish i could try a sample. too bad Canada Post won't ship beer!

sleepyjamie wrote:nice! wish i could try a sample. too bad Canada Post won't ship beer!

I'll see if I can set aside a couple bottles to bring along to the Rye IPA tasting the end of March…

I'm surprised how fast fermentation started for you. Did you use the whole yeastcake?

mr x wrote:I'm surprised how fast fermentation started for you. Did you use the whole yeastcake?

I used washed slurry, there was about ¼" of yeast in the bottom of a 250ml mason jar. Pitched it into a 1L 1.035 starter on my stir plate for about 36 hours, crash cooled for 4 hours before pitching. I'm uploading some video to YouTube that I shot with my iPhone at 6:30 Saturday night, about 3.5 hours after I pitched. I was pretty shocked as well.

Please excuse my shaky hand holding the phone—I drink a lot of coffee.

So, how did this turn out. Can you give us a short taste review. Might give it a try.

blueyes wrote:So, how did this turn out. Can you give us a short taste review. Might give it a try.

Not sure yet. I just put it into the keg the other day, so I'm waiting for it to carbonate. It's a pretty standard, clean, Cascade-based Pale Ale. I'm pretty sure it'll become a regular recipe around here.

that mother*ucker is angry!

sleepyjamie wrote:that mother*ucker is angry!

Sure was. That was the most aggressive fermentation I've ever witnessed.

Just pulled the first pint out of the keg. Tossed in 2oz of Cascade pellets in a bag when I kegged this nearly two weeks ago. It's tasting great. I think I've found my house Pale Ale recipe.

Looking forward to trying this. I have been on the lookout for a good summer APA recipe.

My efficiency was pretty off (70% estimated, 79% actual) on this one, so it ended up more in IPA ranges for ABV (6.4%). I'm pretty confident that it'll be just as good, if not better, at 5% ABV where I expected it to be.

Looks like a solid recipe. Very similar to an Epic Pale Ale clone I brewed a couple weeks ago from the Can You Brew It recipe (apparently they use all Cascade hops as well).

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