15 Minute Cascade Pale Ale

Now that is a hop addition!

With the segmented brewing experiment deemed a total failure I stumbled across a recipe on HBT for a 15 min boil with extract and steeped grains.  It really piqued my interest so I decided to brew it on a weeknight.  Man was it easy.  I haven't made an extract brew in ages.  The simplicity and speed of my brew night was amazing.  I finished it all in under two hours with cleanup.  I brewed with whole fresh cascades from freshops for the first time. If this ends up a being a winner I will certainly add it to my regular pipeline.  6 hr all grain days are becoming harder and harder to come by.  I may experiment with a pliny hop combo or even use some hop extract post boil to kick up the bittering.  This was a really fun brew night.

Grain/Extracts

3lbs Light Pilsen DME
3 lbs Golden Light DME
1 lb C-60 add the grains to the water and steep until the water temp reaches 170 and pull them out.

Hops

Smells super fresh

2.5oz Whole Cascade at 15 min
1oz Whole Cascade at 5 min
.50 oz Whole Cascade at flameout
1oz Whole Cascade dry hop.

2 tsp gypsum

Pre boil gravity 1.053 into 5.375 starting volume before extract addition and steeping
Post boil gravity 1.056
Ferment at 65 with Notty

First time with whole hops, oh my!

The finished product