Cook's Pale Ale

Source: Doug Cook
Recipe added: 04/29/97
Email: cookd@ccsu.edu

Doesn't get much easier to brew a great extract beer. My favorite brew (homebrew or commercial) ever! At about 3 weeks in the bottle the Cascades are *very* dominant (I love that), but it balances out nicely with a little more time.

Specifics

Recipe type: Extract
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Starting Gravity: 1.044
Finishing Gravity: 1.008
Time in Boil: 1 hour
Primary Fermentation: 6 days
Secondary Fermentation: 2 weeks

Ingredients:

Malt Extract:
6.6# Mohogany Coast Pale LME
Specialty Grains:
0.5# Crystal 10L
0.5# Cara Pils
Hop Schedule:
1.0 oz Northern Brewer 7.8%, plug, 60 min.
0.5 oz Fuggles 3.8%, plug, 30 min.
0.5 oz Fuggles 3.8%, plug, 15 min.
0.5 oz Fuggles 3.8%, plug, 0 min.
1.0 oz Cascade 4.1%, pellet, dry hopped
Yeast:
Wyeast #1056 American Ale, 1pt starter

Procedure:

Steep grains @ @150F for 30 min., sparge with 170F water. Boil for 1 hour following hop schedule above. Add Cascade pellets loose to secondary when racking. Dry hop for full 2 weeks in secondary.

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