Copper Ale Recipe

Copper Ale

8-C Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)

Size: 5.04 gal
Efficiency: 79.0%
Attenuation: 78.4%
Calories: 199.85 kcal per 12.0 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.060 (1.048 – 1.060)

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Terminal Gravity: 1.013 (1.010 – 1.016)

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Color: 13.89 (6.0 – 18.0)

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Alcohol: 6.21% (4.6% – 6.2%)

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Bitterness: 37.5 (30.0 – 50.0)

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Ingredients:

5.0 lb Canadian Craft Brewers Pale Malt
4.0 lb Maris Otter Pale
1.0 lb Crystal Malt 60°L
.5 lb Cara-Pils® Malt
.5 lb Victory® Malt
.4 oz Nugget (13.0%) – added during boil, boiled 60 min
1 oz Tettnanger (4.8%) – added during boil, boiled 30 min
1.5 oz Tettnanger (4.8%) – added during boil, boiled 5 min
1.0 tsp Irish Moss – added during boil, boiled 0.0 min
1.0 ea White Labs WLP005 British Ale
1.0 oz Cascade (4.0%) – added dry to secondary fermenter

Schedule:

Ambient Air: 70.0 °F
Source Water: 60.0 °F
Elevation: 0.0 m

Notes

Temperature outside was about 25F
Mash water of 5 gallons heated to about 181F in the cooler
Mash hit about 153F
Sparged with 4.25 gallons
Boil volume was 6.75 gallons
Ended boil with about 5 gallons
Starting Gravity = 1.060
Fermented for 3 weeks
Put 1 oz of homegrown Cascade leaf hops in bag and put in Secondary. Racked over.
Gravity after 3 weeks = 1.013

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2008 Pale Ale

This was originally posted on my personal blog in 2008…

I brewed a Pale Ale this past weekend. It might be close to an IPA, but I’m not sure. Here’s the recipe…

Steeped .5 lb of Crystal 40L for 24 hours in 5.75 gallons of hot water from the tap
Brought up to 155F and let sit at that temp for 30 min.
Brought to a boil and removed grains.
1 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3%
Boiled for 30 min.
.5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3%
2 cups of corn sugar
2 cans of Alexanders Sun Country Pale Malt Extract
1 tsp Irish Moss
Boiled for 15 min.
.5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3% Boiled for 10 min.
.5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3%
Boiled for 5 min. and removed from heat
Cooled the wort and added Muntons Gold yeast at around 79F
Gravity = 1.066

I’m planning on dry hopping (my first experiment with dry hopping) with .5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3% after a week in the primary and let sit for another week in the primary before transferring over to the secondary. Again, I’ll let you know how it goes.

Brewed a Pale Ale

I brewed a Pale Ale this past weekend. It might be close to an IPA, but I’m not sure. Here’s the recipe…

Steeped .5 lb of Crystal 40L for 24 hours in 5.75 gallons of hot water from the tap
Brought up to 155F and let sit at that temp for 30 min.
Brought to a boil and removed grains.
1 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3%
Boiled for 30 min.
.5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3%
2 cups of corn sugar
2 cans of Alexanders Sun Country Pale Malt Extract
1 tsp Irish Moss
Boiled for 15 min.
.5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3% Boiled for 10 min.
.5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3%
Boiled for 5 min. and removed from heat
Cooled the wort and added Muntons Gold yeast at around 79F
Gravity = 1.066

I’m planning on dry hopping (my first experiment with dry hopping) with .5 oz. Cascade hops A.A. 6.3% after a week in the primary and let sit for another week in the primary before transferring over to the secondary. Again, I’ll let you know how it goes.