Beer Style: Pale Ale Family
Traditional Cathedral Kölsch
If you are looking for a more traditional Kölsch recipe, we’ve got a basic recipe for brewers to appreciate the ingredients, so be sure to use only fresh and quality malts, hops, and yeast.
Classic American Pale Ale
A no-fuss, classic American Pale Ale recipe, loaded with Cascade hops.
Green Zinger
For the Saaz-lovers out there, an ale recipe with a healthy dose of this spicy hop. Recipe courtesy of Asheville Brewers Supply – Asheville, North Carolina
www.ashevillebrewers.com
HBS American Pale Ale
Amarillo hops provide a nice aroma for this pale ale submitted to BYO from the Home Brew Shop in St. Charles, IL
End Run Mild Ale
Frequent contributor and author Horst Dornbusch provides readers with a British mild ale recipe.
Anita Johnson’s Kölsch
Anita Johnson, owner of Great Fermentations of Indiana, in Indianapolis says, “This Kölsch recipe is a crowd pleaser. We have served it at homebrew club meetings, public beer festivals and in the Indy Runners’ recovery tent at the Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini Marathon (the country’s largest 1/2 marathon). I like this beer because it has lots of flavor but is light and thirst-quenching. The Wyeast 2565 leaves a tartness that I really like. So simple but yet so good!”
Denny Conn’s Cream Swill (Cream Ale)
Denny says, “This turns out so well as a mini-mash beer that I’ve never been tempted to come up with an all-grain version.”
Springfield Brewing Co.’s Mueller Wheat
Our wheat is dry, crisp and refreshing — and has a certain ‘snap’ from the malted and raw wheats used, as well as a spicy hop nose from the Liberty hops. The foam has a rich, creamy and rocky appearance. Our wheat beer has been our number one seller since we opened in December 1997 and won a gold in the American-style wheat beer category at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in 2003 and a bronze in the same category in 2004. — Ashton Lewis – Springfield Brewing Co.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Pale Ale clone
Updated recipe with the latest information gleaned from Sierra Nevada’s website. ‘The’ classic American Pale Ale.
Wychwood Brewing Company: Hobgoblin Dark Ale clone
This ruby-colored English ale delivers a delicious chocolate toffee malt flavor, balanced with rounded moderate bitterness and an overall fruity, mischievous character.
Coopers Sparkling Ale clone
Cooper’s Sparkling Ale is the bar that all others are measured when brewing an Australian sparkling ale. According to Coopers, “Little has changed since Thomas Cooper brewed his first batch of Sparkling Ale in 1862. It’s still naturally conditioned in the bottle with our unique strain of Coopers yeast.”
English Pale Ale
“The German crystal malts are not traditional but provide richness without the cloying quality of some of the currently available English crystals. The amber invert sugar adds a bit of flavor complexity and helps dry out the finish. Hopping the mash and first runnings worked well for this one – it retained appreciable hop character despite being fairly well aged when judged.”
—Ross Mitchell (Australian Capital Territory)
