Recipe: Mad Alchemist Americana Pale Ale

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.