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Friday, June 19, 2009

Baby Brew Pale Ale

THE PLAN: I was hanging out with my friend Jamie, he was interested in learning how to brew, so we just went to the homebrew shop on a whim and grabbed some stuff to make a pretty generic pale ale. Other than three or four scattered attempts over the last 2 years I had lived in VT, it had been a good 6 years since I really brewed. So this was kind of a restart for me with brewing.

THE RECIPE:
OG 1.040
FG 1.010
IBU 28.4
ABV 3.9%

6.6# Pale LME
1/2# Crystal 60L
2 oz Tettnang (homegrown) (60 min)
1/2 oz Cascade (15 min)
1/2 oz Fuggles (15 min)
1/2 oz Fuggles (5 min)
1/2 oz Cascade (5 min)
1 tsp Irish Moss
Munton dry ale yeast

6/19: BREWDAY:
Nothing super special about this other than actually brewing. Pretty straight forward extract batch. I see now (May '10) that my hop schedule was pretty lame. I'll definitely change that around for the next pale ale.

6/23 RACK TO SECONDARY, maybe bottled:
No memory of this lol

7/20 TASTING:
Good stuff! More malt next time for sure, more hops, use liquid yeast too.