Brewday 18/11/2016 - Pale Ale

Pale Ale brewday 18/11/2016

Partner's at work, kids are at school, I'm at home. What should I do?

I could do some of those odd jobs that have been stacking up, a bit of decorating, a bit of DIY maybe, or I could do something far more constructive!

Recipe (BIAB):

Since I have enough ingredients to make a nice hoppy pale ale, that's what I'm going to do.

• Mash for 1 hr at 67°C
• Boil for 60 mins
• Mash water volume 30lt
• Maris Otter 4kg
• Carapils 130g
• Crystal malt 215g
• Galena 30g (at start)
• Mosiac 25g (15 mins)
• Mosiac 55g (at end)
• Citra 20g (dry hopped)
• Irish Moss 1 tsp (15 mins)
• Gervin English Ale Yeast 11g pack

Apparently Gervin English Ale Yeast is the same as Nottingham but only half the price. I've used it a few times and always had good results.

Hopefully I should get 21-22lt in the fermenter.

Results:

I ended up with 22.5lt in the fermenter. I was concerned that the OG was down to 1.040 (should have been 1.044) but hopefully I should still get around 4% abv. Efficiency was only 65%, I usually get about 75%.