RecipeDB - Terrapin Rye Pale Ale Clone

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Terrapin Rye Pale Ale Clone

Ale - American Pale Ale
All Grain

Brewer's Notes

Mash at 67 degrees.
The Amber malt in the recipe should be Biscuit malt (couldn't find it on the list).
The 0 minute Amarillo is dry-hop (5 days), not flameout.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	7.5 kg	JWM Traditional Ale Malt
	1 kg	TF Pale Rye Malt
	1 kg	JWM Light Munich
	0.5 kg	JWM Amber Malt
	0.09 kg	Hoepfner Melanoidin
	0.09 kg	Weyermann Carared

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	112 g	Amarillo (Pellet, 8.9AA%, 0mins)
	47 g	Cascade (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 1mins)
	46 g	Northern Brewer (Pellet, 8.5AA%, 60mins)
	29 g	Goldings, East Kent (Pellet, 5.0AA%, 10mins)
	25 g	Goldings, East Kent (Pellet, 5.0AA%, 30mins)
	24 g	Goldings, East Kent (Pellet, 5.0AA%, 20mins)
	20 g	Fuggles (Pellet, 4.5AA%, 30mins)

Yeast

30 ml

White Labs WLP051 - California Ale V

45L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.057 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.016 (calc)
• Bitterness 37.5 IBU
• Efficiency 80%
• Alcohol 5.32%
• Colour 15 EBC
• Batch Size 45L

Fermentation

• Primary 11 days
• Secondary 5 days
• Conditioning 2 days

 

[glennheinzel]

I haven't tried the commercial beer, however I tried the following Terrapin RPA recipe (from BYO, but based on ingredients I had on hand)...

Terrapin Rye Pale Ale clone
Size: 19 L
Efficiency: 70.0%

Original Gravity: 1.054
Terminal Gravity: 1.014
Alcohol: 5.35%
Bitterness: 45

Ingredients:
3.8 kg TF Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt
0.45 kg Rye Malt
0.45 kg Munich TYPE I
0.150 kg Amber Malt
0.170 kg German CaraHell
25 g Challenger (8%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
19 g Fuggle (4.8%) - added during boil, boiled 30 min
13 g East Kent Goldings (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 20 min
13 g East Kent Goldings (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 10 min
28 g Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 3 min
56 g Amarillo (8.5%) - added dry to primary fermenter
1 Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05

It was good, however I'm looking for more excitement from this recipe (perhaps Amarillo reminds me too much of JSGA?).

Going off topic from this thread, I like the idea of having a rye pale ale as a house beer so I'm going to start tweaking the recipe...
1. Hops. I'm going to swap the 56g of Amarillo for 40g of Cintra. I might even add 10g of Cintra at flame out. I've got some Southern Cross :icon_drool2: to use for bittering and 30 min flavour.
2. Malt. TF floor malted Maris Otter should offer more flavour than american two row malt so I'm going to drop the amber and carahell malts in favour of more Maris Otter.

Hopefully simplifying the recipe and tweaking the ingredients will prove to be a winner.