No Pale American Pale Ale - 15

owner: Michael Erwin | started: 11/06/2008 | last updated: 11/17/2008
status: Finished
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11/6/2008 - from the Brewmaster's Bible, West Coast IPA, but reducing to bring down from the IPA range. I'm entering this one in the local Big Turkey club competition at the end of the month.

8 oz light crystal malt
6 lbs light malt extract syrup
12 oz light dry malt extract
1 oz Galena pellets (45)
.5oz oz Cascade pellets (15)
1 tsp Irish moss (15)
1 oz Cascade pellets (5)
1 package dry ale yeast
1 oz Cascade pellets (dry hop in 2ary)
6 oz corn sugar

OG: 1.050
anticipated FG: 1.013
approx 33 IBUs
Pitched at 74F.

11/11/2008 - Racked to secondary, dry hopped. I'm going to drop some gelatin in later in the day. I want to get this one into bottles by the weekend. Forgot to get SG, no problem, I'll grab it on bottling day.

11/12/2008 - Wait, this thing started fermenting again. Weird, because the temp is lower now than it was before I racked. Oh well.

11/17/2008 - What a PITA to get the hop bag out of the carboy!!! Bottled at FG: 1.013, 4.8% ABV, 74% apparent attenuation. Used 1 cup of corn sugar for bottling to increase carbonation level.

12/29/2008 - Mmmm, Mmmm, good. Unfortunately, I missed the contest, but the beer is good.