Anyone Got A Good James Squire Golden Ale Extract Clone?

[grinder]

Just after a nice JS Golen Ale extract clone. I know that armarillo and cascade hops are use but what quantities? What would be the best liquid yeast to use (or dry yeast). Malt, specailty grains etc...

A nice extract or partial mash recipe will be great thanks.

 

[goatherder]

I'd just go for the lightest extract you can find and add 10% sugar, some wheat malt and maybe a little pale crystal. Don't go any more than 5% for the crystal. Shoot for an OG of somewhere around 1.040-1.044.

Use a clean fermenting ale yeast - US56 dried or wyeast 1056 liquid. Ferment it cool to keep the esters down.

As far as I'm aware there is no cascade in the golden ale. Bitter with POR and aroma hop with amarillo is reportedly the official recipe. I've made an all amarillo version and it was fantastic. 25 IBUs feels about right to me.

There have been a couple of long threads recently covering this beer. Try a search, you might pick up a few more pointers.

 

[DJR]

Caramalt, amarillo, wheat malt, clean ale yeast, cold conditioning for a week, do all those 4 and you will get very close to it.

Something like a cooper's lager, about 25g of amarillo hops boiled in some malt and water for 5 mins, adding some steeped caramalt/light crystal (about 250g or so) and 0.5kg wheat malt+0.5kg dextrose fermented with US56 or a Kolsch/Alt yeast fairly cool should do it. You *could* use a lager yeast but that involves more work, just start with a clean ale yeast (Wyeast 1007/2565/1056, White Labs 029/001/060/011, Fermentis US56/S33) would be fine and not need as much care.

Of course us AG'ers get the better recipes but i think you could do it with extract as long as you make sure the extract is fresh and you ferment and sanitise properly.

If you can get it why not try the Brewer's Selection Amarillo Ale fresh wort kit, that should be pretty close.

 

[3GumsBrewing]

Tasted a JS GA on the weekend and loved it.
How about a BIAB type recipe for a Golden Ale, anyone got one or know where to start?

Cheers

 

[bconnery]

I made this one last year. It is a partial mash but you could easily remove the maris otter and just have some more extract.

Boil volume isn't right so the IBUs might be a little off but the hop amounts gave a good bitterness, if perhaps slightly more bitter than the commercial version.

The amarillo flavour was very good.



Batch Size: 22.50 L
Boil Size: 5.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.048 SG
Estimated Color: 7.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 29.1 IBU
Boil Time: 45 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
1.00 kg Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 25.6 %
1.50 kg Wheat Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 38.5 %
1.00 kg Golden Promise (3.0 SRM) Grain 25.6 %
0.30 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 7.7 %
0.10 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 2.6 %
30.00 gm Pride of Ringwood [9.00%] (45 min) Hops 24.9 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50%] (5 min) Hops 4.2 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50%] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Hops -
US56 yeast