2017 Category 18: Pale American Ale - Gold Medal

[mick02]

Lads your not going to score higher than that other than with fresher hops, well done Mick top of the class!

Cheers CH. Yeah it was a pretty flawless beer. Like you said maybe fresher ingredients might have eeked out a few more points but I was pretty happy with that result.

As Thomas mentioned in an earlier post "You're really working on the finer details there though"

[irish_goat]

Good to know, an excellent beer it is too.   I follow a couple of the lads from Yellowbelly there but I don't think I can private message unless they're following back unfortunately.

Quick reply from Declan.

Rough and ready its 75%pils 15%munich 10%wheat. All castle maltings and bitterness kept super low. Double infusion mash. 50 then up to 65. Dry hopped @ 4.5g/l citra for 4/5 days @15°

[Ciaran]

Rough and ready its 75%pils 15%munich 10%wheat. All castle maltings and bitterness kept super low. Double infusion mash. 50 then up to 65. Dry hopped @ 4.5g/l citra for 4/5 days @15°

Aha, I wasn't barking up the wrong tree after all   You know what this means, now I'm going to have to this and brew mick's to compare them.  Thanks for the post!!

[RobShamrock]

Hey Mick, love sound of this receipe those hops in pellet or leaf - guessing pellet, new to all grain,

Ta

[mick02]

Hey Rob, yeah all pellet. It was a tasty beer in fairness.

[RobShamrock]

Ta, have a stout ingredients to hand to do, but gonna order up this for a run mid may something tasty for the good weather

[RobShamrock]

Hey Mick, this brew is well on the way just transferred to 2nd, had a sip, very promising be bottling up on sunday ( this only my second all grain)

[mick02]

Hey Mick, this brew is well on the way just transferred to 2nd, had a sip, very promising be bottling up on sunday ( this only my second all grain)

Nice one Rob! Let me know when it's done. I'm interested to hear how it turns out.

[RobShamrock]

Hey Mick, cracked one of these last night only about 10 days in bottle yeast hasnt fully compacted yet and I got some chill haze but my fridge might be turned up a bit high but an absolute beauty of a beer  only my 2nd all grain and very chuffed with result

they wont be lasting long, I better get brewing soon !!   many thanks for sharing

[mick02]

Hey Mick, cracked one of these last night only about 10 days in bottle yeast hasnt fully compacted yet and I got some chill haze but my fridge might be turned up a bit high but an absolute beauty of a beer  only my 2nd all grain and very chuffed with result

they wont be lasting long, I better get brewing soon !!   many thanks for sharing

Thanks for letting me know how you got on. Glad it turned out well for you. Good luck with the second batch!

[FlimFlamFlo]

This looks great, thanks for sharing it and congratulations on the win :-)

I'm going to brew this tomorrow and have a question on the dry hopping - how far out from bottling did you do this?

Thanks again,
Flim

[JDC]

Hey Mick, just to echo all that has been said already - Congrats on the Gold, and thanks for sharing the recipe.

I brewed this yesterday, the only difference being that I used the American West B5 Yeast (the one from HBW at BrewCon).  Went into the fermentor at 1.060, so looking forward to trying in a few weeks' time.  I'll report back how it goes.

Cheers,
JDC

[mick02]

This looks great, thanks for sharing it and congratulations on the win :-)

I'm going to brew this tomorrow and have a question on the dry hopping - how far out from bottling did you do this?

Thanks again,
Flim

Thanks for the congrats,

Re the dry hopping. I dry hopped this once I reached FG. I just added the hops to the fermenter for 4 days before transferring to a keg and cold crashing.

HTH,

Mick

[mick02]

Hey Mick, just to echo all that has been said already - Congrats on the Gold, and thanks for sharing the recipe.

I brewed this yesterday, the only difference being that I used the American West B5 Yeast (the one from HBW at BrewCon).  Went into the fermentor at 1.060, so looking forward to trying in a few weeks' time.  I'll report back how it goes.

Cheers,
JDC

Cheers JDC, I'll be interesting to see how it finishes up for you.

[FlimFlamFlo]

Nice one, thanks again for sharing - I'm really looking forward to this one.