RecipeDB - T Bone Pale Ale

[schlongmire]

T Bone Pale Ale

Ale - American Pale Ale
All Grain

1 Votes

Brewer's Notes

mash at 66 for 60 mins, i just batch sparge. dry hopped 20gm cascade.just threw into primary fermenter then chucked the wort in. worked out great. i bottled this but probably needed more dextrose to get same carbonation as LCPA. i used 7gm/litre.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	4.5 kg	BB Ale Malt
	0.45 kg	JWM Caramalt
	0.3 kg	Weyermann Carapils(Carafoam)

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	40 g	Cascade (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 60mins)
	30 g	Cascade (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 30mins)
	30 g	Chinook (Pellet, 13.0AA%, 5mins)
	20 g	Cascade (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 0mins)

Yeast

1000 ml

Wyeast Labs 1056 - American Ale

23L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.054 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.013 (calc)
• Bitterness 45.9 IBU
• Efficiency 75%
• Alcohol 5.33%
• Colour 14 EBC
• Batch Size 23L

Fermentation

• Primary 10 days
• Secondary 3 days
• Conditioning 4 days

 

[bear09]

I just dont get it. I make beers with 30IBU and I find them to be very bitter. I see all the time people putting recipe's on here with 45 - 50IBU all the time. How can you stand a beer that bitter? What am I not getting? Based on my experience (limited) you would need 80% cara malts to balance off 50IBU. Anyones thoughts here would be appreciated.

 

[Acasta]

Argon's Little Fella's Pale Ale, closest i've tried.

 

[warra48]

I just dont get it. I make beers with 30IBU and I find them to be very bitter. I see all the time people putting recipe's on here with 45 - 50IBU all the time. How can you stand a beer that bitter? What am I not getting? Based on my experience (limited) you would need 80% cara malts to balance off 50IBU. Anyones thoughts here would be appreciated.

Take a look at the amount of Crystal malts in this recipe, a total of .75 kg. That's way more than most of us ever think about using. It's resulted in a rather high FG of 1.017, even though he mashed at 66C. This means the beer has a decent whack of body and residual sweetness.

Given that character, it needs the 50 IBU to balance the beer. That's what it's all about, balance.
50 IBU in a FG 1.017 beer is nice.
50 IBU in a FG 1.006 beer is mouth puckering.

Of course, every individual has their own taste preferences and thresholds. If the IBUs are too high for you, design your recipes to fit your personal preferences and save some cash by using less hops.

 

[felten]

The website software works out the FG for you right? I don't think you can input it yourself.

 

[schlongmire]

The website software works out the FG for you right? I don't think you can input it yourself.

yeah it works it out for you, but sounds about right. all i know is that LCPA is a beer i really like and does have a fairly bitter taste that suits it, this recipe turns out a beer very close to LCPA in my opinion.what works works

 

[TBird]

Perhaps I've missed it, but what yeast did you use,shlongmire?

Cheers

 

[schlongmire]

wyeast 1056 , forgot that major detail

Perhaps I've missed it, but what yeast did you use,shlongmire?

Cheers