NPA Pale Ale - 20

owner: Michael Erwin | started: 02/26/2009 | last updated: 07/11/2009
Recipe: | status: Finished

--------------------
February 26, 2009
Planning

Ordered ingredients from Midwest. Plus, ordered two hop rhizomes, Cascade and Glacier.

8 oz crystal 10L
6 lbs Briess pilsen light malt syrup
12 oz pilsen light dme
1 oz Galena pellets (45)
.5oz oz Cascade pellets (15)
1 tsp Irish moss (15)
1 oz Cascade pellets (5)
1 safale 04
1 oz Cascade pellets (dry hop)
6 oz corn sugar

I'm going for a lighter color this time.

OG:1.055
Exp FG:1.014
Starting Temp: 68F.
Took this one to the upstairs closet. Got warm (75F), and starting going nuts within two days; blew out the airlock. Moved to kitchen closet. Now at 65F and fermenting nicely.

3/11/09 - SG:1.011, way better than expected. Extremely light color. Moving to secondary.

--------------------
April 9, 2009
Conditioning
--------------------
temperature: 64F
starting gravity: 1.055
specific gravity 1.011
final gravity: 1.009

Warm, flat beer. Must be bottling time again. Deep straw color, very light. FG came in nicely, dropped 2 points in secondary. See you in two weeks!

FG: 1.009
App Atten: 84% !!!!!
ABV: 6.0%

--------------------
July 11, 2009
Finished
--------------------

Oh so good. I'm working on an all-grain version to brew in August.