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

 

[Dave Y]

That's @Bigbre04 s recipe not mine

and it still needs more rye!

 

[Bigbre04]

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.

i didnt add it to the recipe as the software on here doesnt really have it and im too lazy to add it manually.

I would add about 4.5#s of amoretti craft puree. which based on previous uses is a damn near perfect amount for a 5-6% beer with some malty backbone. not all of amoretti's craft purees are as potent as this though. The POG and the chocolate are both in the same realm of strength.

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1462231I did a smoked apricot amber lager as a collab with some other breweries last year. it was a fucking killer beer, i made it several times after without the other folks lol.

and it still needs more rye!

i can try to work it in.

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.

we have all been to those breweries. I dont think that i am one of those, but who knows????