Any suggestions for a summer ale?

[BDawg]

Come on, guys, he's asking for a light refreshing EXTRACT w/ grains batch and you ass hats are throwing AG, Sours, and huge Mini mashes at him (all of them good, i might add, but NOT what he's looking for)

6 lbs pale LME
1/2 lb pale DME
1/2 lb Crystal 30
1.5 oz Glacier at 60
0.5 oz Cascade at 15
0.5 oz Simcoe at 2

1 tsp Irish Moss or Whirlfloc at 15
Wyeast 1056/WLP001/SafAle US-05

Should end up at OG 1.048, around 25 IBUs, I'm guessing around SRM 7

HTH-

[808brew]

BDawg
I ran the numbers on your recipe and the IBU's come up pretty low. How about adding some Cascade at 60 to bump it up.

or

Bump the Pale extract

Your thoughts?

[BDawg]

what is the alpha for the glacier?
I'm guessing around 4?

Here's what I get when i ran it through Promash. (I actually bumped the glacier down to 1.25 oz to hit 25 ibu's)

Blonde Ale

A ProMash Recipe Report

BJCP Style and Style Guidelines
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06-B Light Hybrid Beer, Blonde Ale

Min OG: 1.038 Max OG: 1.054
Min IBU: 15 Max IBU: 28
Min Clr: 2 Max Clr: 5 Color in SRM, Lovibond

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (Gal): 5.25 Wort Size (Gal): 5.25
Total Grain (Lbs): 7.00
Anticipated OG: 1.047 Plato: 11.59
Anticipated SRM: 7.2
Anticipated IBU: 26.6
Brewhouse Efficiency: 68 %
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Pre-Boil Amounts
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Evaporation Rate: 1.00 Gallons Per Hour
Pre-Boil Wort Size: 6.25 Gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.039 SG 9.80 Plato


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
85.7 6.00 lbs. Briess LME- Gold America 1.035 4
7.1 0.50 lbs. Briess DME- Gold America 1.046 8
7.1 0.50 lbs. Crystal 30L America 1.035 30

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.25 oz. Glacier Pellet 4.00 23.5 60 min.
0.50 oz. Cascade Pellet 5.00 3.1 15 min.
0.50 oz. Simcoe Pellet 13.00 0.0 0 min.
(optional: dry hop with an oz of palisade or amarillo)

Yeast
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WYeast 1056 Amercan Ale/Chico

[808brew]

Somehow I missed the Glacier at 60 which explains everything.

Thanks for the feedback and the recipe. I need to knock out a quick one and this looks like what I need.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Nah, fuck that.... Make Bugeater's Rye Cream Ale! Everybody loves this beer. Mine second attempt was even better than my first. So much so that I had to enter it in NHC. The rye, extra hops, and elevated OG pushes it out of the Cream Ale category - so I had to enter it in Cat 23. I gave the nod to Boog in the name - "Boog it 2 Me".


Mylo

+1

A truly awesome beer. I brewing it again this weekend.