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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
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| 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
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| First time with whole hops, oh my! |
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| The finished product |
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Dry hopped 4-24. 1.014 fg
ReplyDeleteI was very excited about brewing this recipe yet rather skeptical. I used whole fresh cascades and followed the recipe verbatim. Crash cooled at 4 weeks and dry hopped in the keg. I was a bit unimpressed at 4 weeks but now after almost 3 weeks on the keg dry hop this beer is really shining. It is a very pleasant pale ale with nice caramel notes. The chill haze is gone and it looks and tastes great.
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Removed the dry hops 5-14. Nice refreshing pale ale that is going fast.
ReplyDelete1.013 FG. 5.7% abv
ReplyDeleteAwesome beer. Nice and crisp. Crowd pleaser. Would make it with any C hop.
ReplyDeleteThis was the best 15-min version in my opinion. Not sure if it was because of the whole hops or the dry hops directly in the keg, but this keg was great.
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