DOUBLE
PLAY PALE ALE
Style: American
Pale Ale
Batch size: 5.0
gal
Brewer: Vermont
Homebrew
Crushed
Specialty Grains
|
Amount |
|
Caramalt 10L |
8 oz |
|
Crystal 90L |
4 oz |
|
Light Wheat Malt |
8 oz |
Place the crushed grains in a muslin bag and tie off. Don’t pack the grains in so tightly that water can’t get in. Heat up a gallon of water in your brewpot to 165F or just shy of a boil. Turn off the heat, add the grains & cover the pot. Let the grains steep for 15-45 min. Remove the grains and add the following:
Malt Extract |
Amount |
|
Light Malt
Extract (LME) |
6.6 lbs |
Stir well and check to make sure that there is no
malt stuck to the bottom of the pot.
Add an additional 1-1/2 gallons of water, and bring to a boil. Stir occasionally during the boil and follow
the hop schedule below:
Pellet Hops |
Amount |
Boil Time |
|
Northern Brewer |
1.5 oz @ 6.5 AAU |
60 min |
|
Northern Brewer |
.5 oz |
30 min |
|
Cascade |
1.0 oz @ 6.0AAU |
2 min |
Yeast |
|
Danstar Nottingham or Windsor |
Cool the wort you boiled covered in an ice bath
for at least an hour. Have 2 gallons of cold water in the sanitized fermenter. Pour
the cool wort directly into the fermenter. You can pour through a strainer if
you have one. Check the temperature and stir/shake well to mix. Take a
hydrometer reading now. When the wort temperature has reached 63-75F you can
rehydrate the dry yeast in ½ cup of warm water. Let it rehydrate for 15 min,
and then add it to the wort. Seal the fermenter and shake well. You can continue to aerate or shake the
fermenter every so often until you see positive pressure in the airlock, or the
krausen start to form on top of the wort. Let ferment at room temperature till
done. You can siphon the beer into a 5
gallon carboy and let it settle for 1-2 weeks. Remember to keep the carboy out
of direct light.
Prime (carbonate) the brew with ¾ cup of corn
sugar that is dissolved in 1 or 2 cups of boiling water.
Let the beer carbonate at the same temperature it
fermented at for 1 or 2 weeks before chilling. Your beer should continue to
mellow and carbonate over the next 4-6 weeks.
NOTE:
I have been adjusting the hops for a slightly stronger taste. Using 1.5 oz total of Northern Brewer @ 9.1 AAU
Also, late addition of LME ( last 15 min) has
resulted in lighter color.
