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4th Street Pale Ale

8Lb Pale Malt
1/4Lb Toasted Malt
1/2 Lb Crystal 40
1/2oz black patent
1oz BC Goldings 60min
1oz Cascade 30min
1/2oz Cascade 3min

Nottingham yeast cake

32 ibu
42 OG
8.5 srm

This is my first lighter beer and i have no bottle's and don't keg (i do keg stands) any way. i dont know what i was thinking with the hops, is it just gona be like grapefruit or is some malt gona pull thru? i was wearing no pants when i though of this thing

Is this a new BN game for stump the brewer?

It's some kind of no pants pale ale. Drink it. Tell us how it turns out. Was the malt just domestic two row, or something like marris otter?

You'll be fine. Nottingham ferments similarly to the wlp013, and other malt forward strains good for english beers. As long as your cake isn't contaminated in anyway you'll be cool.

all from grambrinus pale malt (2-row i take it)

Well i took a hydro reading and finished bottling, it went all the way down to 1.001
I was wanting this thing to be about 4% but my friends sure as hell wont complain with it being 5%
my hydro sample was pretty good, the toasted flavor really pulls through with some caramel, some bigger late hop additions would improve the beer.

Its a good start to the world of pale ale's

1.001? Well that's going to be dry...

Yea it got down, some how i feel like i missed my mash temp,

o well, cant wait to guzzle down a valentine bomber or two,

Should be a drinkable no-pants ale. Probably has a little touch of red from the tiny amount of black patent.
You'll be fine.

double check your hydrometer in distilled water, at 60 degrees... that seems really dry for nottingham.

drink up, and let us know.