Obey Henry Pale Ale

Tasting note: This is the best tasting beer I have ever made!!!

 This beer is inspired by a phenomenon in my WoW guild (insert geeky snickering). The origination of which is really too long of a story to tell here.

The recipe is American Pale Ale from Brewing Classic Styles. I don't have any Horizon, so I'm subbing a full ounce of Chinook (11.4%AA) for the bittering hops.

Last night I harvested the yeast cake from the Scottish 70/- and its been settling in the Erlenmeyer ready to pitch today. I'll put up a post soon about what I learned from the Brewing Network about yeast harvesting and what my experiences have been.

For now...OBEY HENRY!

 
Brew Day: 2/7/10
OG: 1055
FG: 1010

1) Did not de-chlorify water.
2) MLT: Heat 5-6 Gallons H2O to 170 F.
2a) Preheat Mash tun with 1-2 gallons boiling H2O, dump water
3)  Add Grain to Mash Tun
4) Single-Infusion Mash. Target:152 F, 5 gallons mash water (just below 2qts/lb of grain)
5) Add 170F water to Mash 1 gallon at a time, stir between additions
6) Stabilize Mash Temp at 152F
7) 11:09 Mash on! Mash for 1 hour. Stirring every 15 mins (11:25, 11:40, 11:55)
8) Heat Sparge water (3.5 gallons) to 170F
9) Recirculate First Runnings until clear
10) Lauter and Sparge. Boil kettle on floor, gravity drain. Pump sparge water on top of grain bed.
11) Sparge until volume in kettle is 7 gallons.
Kettle Gravity: 12.2 Brix (1050 SG)
12) Calculate efficiency: (gallons collected) x (kettle gravity)/ (lbs of malt)
13) Run Boil
Boil on 12:53, 1st hop addition in
2nd hop addition: 11:45
Flame out 1:53, final hop addition
14) Chiller set-up, run into carboy
15) Repitch @200ML (2.5 white labs tubes for measure) of yeast slurry from Scottish 70/- yeast cake (Mr Malty calculator: thin slurry, 25% non-yeast, 1048 OG)
16) Dry-hop with .25oz Cascade, 0.75 Amarillo (just because they were left over =)  )

Cost Breakdown:
Malt: $23.30
Hops: $6.40 (would be $5, but had ounce of high priced Cascade ($2.99 instead of $1.50)
Yeast: Free: Repitched