Pax River Pale Ale

Source: Tim Neall
Recipe added: 08/20/97
Email: neallmt@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu

This is an adaptation a recipe for SNPA from The Homebrewers Recipe Guide. There are slightly more hops because this is a partial wort boil. This recipe is very close to the real thing. It looks and smells just like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. There is a little bit more of a hop twang in the finish, but it is excellent. It needs to mature for almost 8 weeks before it tastes great, but it is worth the wait.

Specifics

Recipe type: Extract
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Starting Gravity: 1.045
Finishing Gravity: 1.008
Time in Boil: 60 minutes
Primary Fermentation: 12 days
Secondary Fermentation: none
Additional Fermentation: none

Ingredients:

3 lbs. Muntons Extra Light Dry malt Extract
3 lbs. Muntons Light Dry malt Extract
1 lb. American Crystal Malt (20L)
2 oz. Perle Pellets AA 9
1 oz. Nugget Pellets AA 13.7
2 oz. Cascade Leaf hops AA 4.1
Yeast Cultured from SNPA bottle

Procedure:

Steep the grains, in a grain bag, in two gallons of water at 150 degrees for 30 minutes. Rinse off the grains with one gallons of cold water. Bring water to a boil and add malt extracts and the Perle hops. At 30 minutes at 1/2 oz. of Nugget hops. At 45 minutes add 1/2 oz of Nugget hops. At 60 minutes remove from heat and add Cascade hops. Cool wort and then siphon wort off of cascade hops. Add water to reach 5.25 gallon mark in carboy.Pitch and allow to ferment. Bottle with 5 oz. of corn sugar.

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