brew #008: power glove american pale ale
Initiate man-party! My fiancee Jenny is back home for two weeks visiting the parents so I have ultimate brewing freedom. I did not waste any time and got straight to work brewing up this hoppy American pale ale. Earlier failures drove me to return with a vengeance inspired in part by the mental music of Horse the Band. I encourage you to watch the video, but be forewarned your head could explode.
My one regret from this brew is I did not do a minimash with the American Special Roast and some 2 row (needs it for conversion, but I included it anyway since it was already milled). Regardless, the brew went really well with the only complications/little annoyances coming from pitching the yeast (I’ll censor that story for now).
The one really cool (weird?) thing I did is also carefully filter out the leftover trub sludge to salvage another 0.75 gallons of wort into a 1 gallon fermenter. I then left the vessel exposed on my windowsill to be inoculated with whatever downtown Chicago had to offer (in addition to a small amount of 1056 yeast). There is a very high chance that nothing good at all will come of this experiment but I’ve wanted to try it for a while. Stay tuned.
Ingredients
6.60 lb Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) 86.3 %
0.50 lb Caramel Malt – 40L (Briess) (40.0 SRM) 6.5 %
0.40 lb Special Roast (50.0 SRM) 5.2 % [Should have mashed with 2-row, but eh...]
0.15 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) 2.0 %
0.60 oz Centennial [9.70%] (60 min) 21.8 IBU
0.25 oz Simcoe [12.70%] (30 min) 9.2 IBU
0.25 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50%] (30 min) 6.2 IBU
0.40 oz Simcoe [12.70%] (5 min) 3.8 IBU
0.25 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50%] (5 min) 1.6 IBU
0.40 oz Centennial [10.00%] (Dry Hop 3 days in secondary)
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50%] (Dry Hop 3 days in secondary)
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min)
1 Pkgs American Ale #1056 (1000mL starter)
The Brew
Soundtrack: Horse the Band
Brew Beer: Three Floyds Robert the Bruce, Solanka Stout, Two Brothers Ebel’s Weiss.
Stats
Fermentation: 5 days in primary at 68F, 7 days in secondary at 68F, 1 day at 50F
Original Gravity: 1.046
Final Gravity:
Est. ABV: ~4.5%
IBU: 42 [Tinseth]
Color: 15 SRM
Brewed: 8/24/09
Bottled:
