Beer Style: Pale Ale Family
Welsh Archer’s Bitter Ale
MEMBERS ONLYWe want to use crystal malt to give it some extra flavor and body, and more importantly to make it copper colored rather than pale gold in hue. Perfect in a bitter.
Pistachio Pale Ale
MEMBERS ONLYWhat’s better than drinking beer and eating pistachios? Smashing them together (of course) and making citrusy pale ale using Palisade hops with a smoky pistachio kick.
Poe’s Boston Bitter
MEMBERS ONLY“Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber through the chambers of my brain. Quaintest thoughts – queerest fancies, come to life and fade away: What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Beginner’s Luck Pale Ale
MEMBERS ONLYBeginner’s Luck Pale Ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.054 FG = 1.012IBU = 32 SRM = 10 ABV = 5.5% Ingredients10 lbs. (4.5 kg) pale 2-row malt1 lb. (0.45 kg) crystal malt (60 °L)6 oz. (170 g) acidulated malt (optional)7.5 AAU Magnum hops (60 min.) (0.5 oz./14 g at 15% alpha acids)7.5 AAU Centennial hops
Copper Clad Best Bitter
MEMBERS ONLYCopper Clad Best Bitter (5 gallons/19 L*, all-grain)OG = 1.040 FG = 1.008IBU = 29 SRM = 11 ABV = 4.1% Every self-respecting cask ale pub in the UK will have a best bitter on the bar. This recipe uses Endeavour, a modern British hop variety, to provide a refreshing, light, and fruity character to
Ship’s Cat Dark Mild
MEMBERS ONLYShip’s Cat Dark Mild (5 gallons/19 L*, all-grain)OG = 1.035 FG = 1.010IBU = 24 SRM = 24 ABV = 3.2% It is rare for me to brew the exact same recipe twice; I tend to make tweaks and adjustments even to ones I like. But I brew this recipe every late spring in time
Allagash Brewing Co.’s Nowaday Blonde Ale clone
MEMBERS ONLYAllagash Brewing Co.’s Nowaday Blonde Ale clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.051 FG = 1.010IBU = 25 SRM = 4 ABV = 5.5% A blonde ale fermented like a lager. Nowaday is fermented at lowertemperatures, including an additional lagering step, resulting in a crisp 5.5% ABV refresher of a beer with very low ester character.
Allagash Brewing Co.’s River Trip clone
MEMBERS ONLYAllagash Brewing Co.’s River Trip clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.040 FG = 1.004IBU = 40 SRM = 2.5 ABV = 4.8% Good for any adventure, River Trip is a low-ABV, Belgian-style table beer with hop-forward grapefruit and stone fruit notes. Ingredients6.5 lbs. (3 kg) 2-row pale malt1 lb. (0.45 kg) Munich malt (10
Icarus Brewing Co.’s Pineapple Hindenburg clone
MEMBERS ONLYIcarus Brewing Co.’s Pineapple Hindenburg clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.064 FG = 1.016IBU = 17.1 SRM = 6 ABV = 6.2% This recipe was born out of a collaboration with the Ocean County Homebrewers club. The base recipe makes a very nice New England-style pale ale, but Icarus takes that and throws fresh habaneros into
Indeed Brewing Co.’s Triumph Pale Ale clone
MEMBERS ONLYIndeed Brewing Co.’s Triumph Pale Ale clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.055 FG = 1.011IBU = 45 SRM = 6 ABV = 5.7% This single-hop pale ale from Indeed Brewing features juicy/berry/tropical flavors from the Triumph hops. Ingredients9.5 lbs. (4.3 kg) Simpsons Golden Promise pale ale malt1.8 lbs. (0.82 kg) Simpsons Golden Naked Oats6 AAU Triumph hops (20
Altbier
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Devil’s Purse Brewing Co.’s Handline Kölsch clone
MEMBERS ONLYIn the end, this beer just takes patience, unless you have a centrifuge. Cold lagering for a month should provide you with the clarity and crispness you’re looking for.