Cascade Pale Ale Recipe
I have an “overstock” of Cascade pellets that I need to use up so I was thinking that a couple single hop beers were in order. Looking at my American Beer series line up, I think I will substitute this Cascade Pale Ale for the American Wheat. (I have other plans for a wheat series later this month, so stay tuned).
Here is my Cascade Pale Ale recipe. Let me know what you think. I was keeping it simple to be a clean drinker but still showcase the Cascade hop.
Cascade Pale Ale
10-A American Pale Ale
Size: 6.0 gal
Efficiency: 65%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Original Gravity: 1.050 (1.045 - 1.060)
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 (1.010 - 1.015)
Color: 8.3 (5.0 - 14.0)
Alcohol: 4.87% (4.5% - 6.0%)
Bitterness: 38.87 (30.0 - 45.0)
Ingredients:
12.0 lbs 2-Row Brewers Malt
1.0 lbs Crystal 15
0.6 oz Chocolate Malt
1.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
1.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 10 min
1.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 1 min
1.0 ea Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05
1.0 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - added during boil, boiled 15 min
Mash at 154F for 60 minutes.
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on June 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
That looks like a delicious pale ale, however I have not yet moved up to all-grain brewing from extract brewing. If I were to make this an extract brew could I just convert the 12lbs of 2-row to 6.6 lbs of Briess Golden Light malt extract and use the crystal as a steeping grain for the extra flavor?
on June 6th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I am glad you like the recipe, I think I be firing this one up soon. Hopefully, this coming week.
You are close with the approximation for the extract needed. But a litle over.
You would need only ~6.25lbs of DME to get the OG of 1.050 in 5.5 gallons. Or
~7.4 pounds of LME.
To really get a good sense of how to convert these numbers check out this post here:
http://www.brew-dudes.com/working-with-ppg-and-specific-gravity/126
(And feel free to shoot me an email if I can help understand it better.)
Steeping the crystal 15L and the little bit of chocolate (for color) would be perfectly acceptable as an extract recipe.
As always I recommend the lightest colored extract you can get. I’d stay away from a pilsner extract though as you really need a little of that american 2-row flavor. SO Briess’ extract light DME would be fine. You could buy 7lbs of it, use 0.75 to make a starter for your yeast then the rest would be used in the beer a few days later…AND no waste!!!
Good luck let us know how it turns out if you try it!
BREW ON!