Another Summer Pale Ale in the bag.

[Portreath]

Third pale ale in the bag (or bucket!) in 7 days made yesterday. Summer stocks are looking promising. I put together a pale ale with some of the odd bits left in the freezer.
So I've got:
4500g Pale
180g Brown (I did say the bits)
Mash 65c for 2hrs with 20ltr - then double sparge with 10ltr (happy with my improve sparging, now improve my efficiency to 71%

15g Target @75mins
1/2 tab floc @15mins
15g Cascade @10mins
25g Norther brewer @ turn off.

Just pitched Crossmyloof ale yeast in 23ltrs. OG 1.044 - which is bang on the money.
So should have an interesting brew here at about 4.5%. Not sure if I will dry hop this one, as I'm not really a fan of farting about too much once it's in the FV.

 

[matt76]

I just brewed a pale ale myself on Friday evening, using MO, Munich and Caramalt and first gold hops.....

But I'll be interested to know how yours turns out as I've also got some brown malt left over from the porter and mild I made recently - keep us posted

 

[Portreath]

Will do. I can't say there is any colour take on from the brown, although at 180g I can't see it would have too much impact. But I made two pale ales the week before one with MO and torrified wheat and the other with MO and flaked barley. So it will be interesting to see how the 3 stand up to each other. I'll post some pics etc when I can.

 

[Zephyr259]

Why did you mash for 2 hours?

 

[Portreath]

Why did you mash for 2 hours?

Had to pop out and it took longer than expected, still. no harm done. BTW for this brew day I improved my brewhouse efficiency by over 8%. Happy days.

 

[Zephyr259]

Ah cool, wondered if there was a secret brewing plan behind it. 8% increase is pretty nice.

 

[Portreath]

@Zephyr259 This brew, hops aside was the same as the two previous pale ales, bill weight the same. The difference with this one was i used 20ltrs in the mash tun (more than previously) Left for 2 hours, took off the first runnings and added 10ltrs for sparge. I ran the second running's off after about 15 mins, with plenty of stirring beforehand, then reintroduced the 10ltrs of sparge water to the mash. give it a good stir then run of the sparge water off slowly. I did add a bit of extra time to the day, but I did get good results.