Recipe: Mad Alchemist Americana Pale Ale
2014 February 12
This is a super clean, crisp, hop flavor-forward but balanced pale ale. It is relatively bready for a pale ale, but it dries out nicely on the back of the tongue. It is essentially an American Pale Ale but uses quite a few German ingredients for the grist. The ingredients I’m listing are for a 5 gallon all-grain batch.
Ingredients
- Pale Malt (8 lbs)
- Carahell (8 oz)
- Caramunich I (8 oz)
- Munich I (8 oz)
- Biscuit Malt (8 oz)
- Hops: Magnum (Bittering), 0.5 oz each Cascade and Centennial at 20 mins and 0 mins
- Yeast: California Ale
- Water: Balanced Chloride/Sulfate Ratio, moderate Sodium for roundness
Target Profile
- Original Gravity: 1.052
- Final Gravity: 1.011
- Color: 9 SRM
- Bitterness: 35 IBU
- Alcohol: 5.4%
- Carbonation: 2.5 Vols
I like to ferment this at 68°F for ~2 weeks, then I ease it down to the low 30s over the course of a week.
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