Monday 7 February 2022

Best American Pale Ale (All Grain) Recipe

After much research and putting together our American Pale Ale Recipe Creation Guide, we have settled on the below recipe for our Best American Pale Ale.

Vitals

Batch Volume: 23L
Boil Time: 60 minutes
Original Gravity: 1.051
Final Gravity: 1.012
IBU (Tinseth): 50
BU/GU: 0.97
Colour: 9.7 EBC

Mash

Temperature: 65c - 60 minutes
Mash Out: 75c - 10 minutes

Malts

2.4kg Gladfield American Ale Malt (46%)
2.4kg Gladfield Pilsner Malt (46%)
260g Gladfield Gladiator Malt (Carapils) (5%)
160g Gladfield Aurora Malt (Melanoidin) (3%)

Hops

15g (16 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%) - Boil - 60 minutes
24g (8 IBU) - Amarillo (7.1%) - Boil - 10 minutes
17g (8 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%) - Boil - 10 minutes
27g (6 IBU) - Amarillo (7.1%) - Boil - 5 minutes
16g (5 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%) - Boil - 5 minutes

34g (3 IBU) - Amarillo (7.1%) - Whirlpool/Hopstand - 80c for 15 minutes
25g (3 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%) - Whirpool/Hopstand - 80c for 15 minutes

Yeast

Mangrove Jack's M36 Liberty Bell (Dry) - 1 packet

Fermentation

20C for 14 days

Carbonation

2.4 CO2-vol

Water Profile

Ca2+ (Calcium): 110
Mg2+ (Magnesium): 18
Na+ (Sodium): 19
Cl- (Chloride): 50
SO42- (Sulfate): 267
HCO3- (Bicarbonate): 43

Want to see how it went? Check out our Best American Pale Ale Brew Day post to find out.

You can also check out the Tasting & Review of our Best American Pale Ale for our final thoughts and the outcome of this brew and recipe.

We have taken this recipe from David Heath's YouTube video (recipe is in the video description) and have updated the values to match the grain and hop AA%'s we had available. We're big fans of David's YouTube video's so check him out!


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