Which recipe should I make??

[Sandy Feet]

So some of my regulars are pestering me about making a pale ale. I am several weeks from brewing this, but i figured i would get the ball rolling recipe wise.

Here is where i am at so far.

1--Apricot pale ale(updated)
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607166

2--Pale ale: new
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607170

3--pulaski pale ale
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1351276

i also have a dunkle, dubbel, and a red or vienna lager that are in my future depending on how sales go.

If it is a regular APA, I don't know if I would want all the dark shit in there. Maybe a little C40 and some flaked oats, but you don't need the dark stuff. I think you could even get away with a SMaSH for an APA. My opinion: Foo Foo is for IPAs. Pale Ales should be fairly simple.

 

[Bigbre04]

Here is a Rye Pale ale that i just whipped up.
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607172

I didn't look at the apricot but the others I did
Why the flaked malt? Like 18% in #2
Less in #3 but why any at all in a pale ale
Just curious what your trying to achieve with it

It is really a juicy hoping schedule and the flaked was mainly because i have 2 bags of flaked wheat on hand and im almost out of white wheat. it is basically a juicy ipa without the dryhop and with some caramel malt.

If it is a regular APA, I don't know if I would want all the dark shit in there. Maybe a little C40 and some flaked oats, but you don't need the dark stuff. I think you could even get away with a SMaSH for an APA. My opinion: Foo Foo is for IPAs. Pale Ales should be fairly simple.

I could be convinced to reduce or remove them, but they add some depth to the body. similar to a wc ipa?

 

[Brew Cat]

I agree except that the only dark stuff in there is the dark Munich which is only 20L and only 10%

 

[Bigbre04]

I agree except that the only dark stuff in there is the dark Munich which is only 20L and only 10%

there is C120 in one recipe but it is only like 6lbs.

 

[Brew Cat]

My opinion?

Just the base malt and the 10% crystal
And your hop schedule of your choice

 

[Brew Cat]

there is C120 in one recipe but it is only like 6lbs.

Oh yeah I'd drop that IMHO

 

[Brew Cat]

By the way using something just because you have it is not an excuse
Make those guys a Baltic porter with the oatmeal

 

[Bigbre04]

By the way using something just because you have it is not an excuse
Make those guys a Baltic porter with the oatmeal

i mean it is when im trying to stretch the grain that i have out until i order another pallet?

i updated the pale ale recipe for ya!

 

[Brew Cat]

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607172
Here is a Rye Pale ale that i just whipped up

That looks tasty

 

[Bigbre04]

Personally i think of Pale ales as having a malt/caramel backbone on a 5.5-6.2% beer.

 

[Dave Y]

@Bigbre04 then you would probably ask me to leave

My wife does this to me all the time when I get the TV remote

its all about reading the room and how crazy the spot is when you are ordering.

THIS!
I don't mind so much if someone is deciding what to buy and they're going to buy. Even if they take more than one sample before deciding. I mind when they are jawing endlessly while I am waiting to get my beer.

 

[Dave Y]

So some of my regulars are pestering me about making a pale ale. I am several weeks from brewing this, but i figured i would get the ball rolling recipe wise.

Here is where i am at so far.

1--Apricot pale ale(updated)
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607166

2--Pale ale: new
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607170

3--pulaski pale ale
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1351276

i also have a dunkle, dubbel, and a red or vienna lager that are in my future depending on how sales go.

I'm leaning towards #3

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607172
Here is a Rye Pale ale that i just whipped up

That looks tasty

Bump up that rye to 20-ish percent !!!

 

[Brew Cat]

Personally i think of Pale ales as having a malt/caramel backbone on a 5.5-6.2% beer.

That's true but you don't need 120L and oatmeal to get there

 

[J A]

I'm worse
I'll have a couple tastes of beer I have no intention of buying just to check the style
Sometimes a few IPAs I haven't had
Then order something I know I like
And please don't ask me what I think


You know where that will end

I visited a small local brewery in Hoodsport, Washington when we stayed there for a couple of days. Almost literally a wide spot in the road on the southeastern flank of the Olympic Peninsula and the brewery was a tiny taproom in an old store-front. I love places like that and I was excited to try something. I don't remember whether I asked for tasters or not but nothing I had was good. The barman(brewer?) didn't ask for feedback and I was really glad he didn't. I don't think I finished a whole beer there.
I felt sorry for them but it's one of those examples of novelty trumping mediocrity...it pays to be the only game in town.

 

[J A]

So some of my regulars are pestering me about making a pale ale. I am several weeks from brewing this, but i figured i would get the ball rolling recipe wise.

Here is where i am at so far.

1--Apricot pale ale(updated)
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607166

2--Pale ale: new
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1607170

3--pulaski pale ale
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1351276

i also have a dunkle, dubbel, and a red or vienna lager that are in my future depending on how sales go.

The first one is very similar to what I do for a Pale only a little more session-strength and including Mosaic. Where's the Apricot?
As fruited beers go, I think I only actually like apricot (maybe mango) and I only like that in a Wit.

 

[Sandy Feet]

That Rye looks pretty good. I would bring it down to 5 or 5.2% ish, but that is personal preference.
Somebody here was doing a different hop with an APA for a couple or three years. They were good, simple, 5%, and crushable.
I had a happy accident on the second all grain I ever made. I mashed too high, and it finished about 1.015 with S-05. All Cascade with different additions, all 2 row except for maybe 4% c40. It was damn good for an early beer. I would like to do that again at some point in time.

 

[Brew Cat]

I'm leaning towards #3

Bump up that rye to 20-ish percent !!!

That's @Bigbre04 s recipe not mine