Monday, 7 February 2022

Best American Pale Ale - All Grain Homebrew Recipe

After much research and putting together our American Pale Ale Recipe Creation Guide, we have settled on the below recipe for our Best American Pale Ale.

All Grain Homebrew Recipe

Vitals

  • Batch Volume: 23L
  • Boil Time: 60 minutes
  • Original Gravity: 1.051
  • Final Gravity: 1.012
  • IBU (Tinseth): 50
  • BU/GU: 0.97
  • Colour: 9.7 EBC

Mash

  • Temperature: 65°C - 60 minutes
  • Mash Out: 75°C - 10 minutes

Malts

  • 2.4kg - Gladfield American Ale Malt (46%)
  • 2.4kg - Gladfield Pilsner Malt (46%)
  • 260g - Gladfield Gladiator Malt (Carapils) (5%)
  • 160g - Gladfield Aurora Malt (Melanoidin) (3%)

Hops

Boil Hops

  • 15g (16 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%) - Boil - 60 minutes
  • 24g (8 IBU) - Amarillo (7.1%) - Boil - 10 minutes
  • 17g (8 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%) - Boil - 10 minutes
  • 27g (6 IBU) - Amarillo (7.1%) - Boil - 5 minutes
  • 16g (5 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%) - Boil - 5 minutes

Whirlpool Hops

Added after the boil with wort temperature dropped to 80°C for 15 minutes

  • 34g (3 IBU) - Amarillo (7.1%)
  • 25g (3 IBU) - Centennial (9.8%)

Yeast

  • Mangrove Jack's M36 Liberty Bell (Dry) - 1 packet

Fermentation

  • 20C for 14 days

Carbonation

  • 2.4 CO2-vol

Water Profile

  • Ca2+ (Calcium): 110
  • Mg2+ (Magnesium): 18
  • Na+ (Sodium): 19
  • Cl- (Chloride): 50
  • SO42- (Sulfate): 267
  • HCO3- (Bicarbonate): 43

Further Information

Want to see how it went? Check out our Best American Pale Ale Brew Day post to find out.

You can also check out the Tasting & Review of our Best American Pale Ale for our final thoughts and the outcome of this brew and recipe.

We have taken this recipe from David Heath's YouTube video (recipe is in the video description) and have updated the values to match the grain and hop AA%'s we had available. We're big fans of David's YouTube video's so check him out!

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