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How to Brew A Pale Ale
What is a Pale Ale?
The beer type Pale Ale comes in two traditional variations. You have the English Pale Ale and the American Pale. It is the origin of the ingredients that makes it either English or American. If you use English malts and hops, you are brewing an English Pale Ale, and if you are using American malts and hops, you are brewing an American Pale Ale. The beer is characterized by its use of pale ale and caramel malts, that gives the beer its distinctive golden-yellow to copper color and malty taste, with a caramel notes. The hops used for brewing Pale Ale gives the beer a medium bitternes and hops taste.
The Target Values For A Pale Ale
When you are brewing a Pale Ale, you must be within the values in the style guide you see below. These are your target values when you are designing a recipe.
- OG: 1.044 - 1.056
- FG: 1.008 - 1.016
- Color (EBC): 11 - 30
- Bitterness (IBU): 20 - 40
- Alcohol (Vol%): 4.4 - 5.3
Make sure you have all the Beer Brewing equipment ready before you start to brew.
A Pale Ale Recipe To Begin With
I have made a simple Pale Ale recipe for you. The amount of ingredients in the recipe is for One Liter of water. This means, that if you have 20 liters of water in your kettle, then you must multiply with 20. The Ingredients are as follows;
- Pale Malt (7 EBC): 160 grams/liter
- Cara Crystal Malt (120 EBC): 40 grams/liter
- Northdown hops (8.4 Alpha%): 1 gram/liter
- Fuggle hops (4.0 Alpha%): 1 gram/liter
- Yeast: You Can pick any yeast suitable for ale
The brewing process is as follows;
- Heat the water to 68 °C and add all the malt
- Stir and maintain the temperature at 68 °C for 60 minutes
- Raise the temperature to 73 °C and keep it at 73 °C for 30 minutes
- Seperate the mash from the wort with your strainer
- Sparge the mash with 73 °C water untill you have the equivalent volume of wort in the kettle as you had water to begin with (1 liter in this case)
- Raise the temperature to 100 °C - boiling
- The total boiling time is 60 minutes from you add the first wort to you begin cooling the wort
- First add 1 gram/liter Northdown for 60 minutes total boil time
- Then add 0.8 gram/liter Fuggle for 30 minutes total boil time
- Then add 0.2 gram/liter Fuggle for 15 minutes total boil time
- After 60 minutes of hopping the beer, start chilling the wort
- When the wort is reaches fermentation temperature, pour it to the sanitized fermenter bucket
- Add the yeast and keep the fermenter bucket at fermentation temperature
- When the fermentation has stopped, transfer the beer to a sanitized fermenter bucket for secondary fermentation
- Add sugar to carbonate the beer to get the desired CO2 pressure and then bottle the beer
These ingredients, and this process of brewing Pale Ale, gives you these values;
- OG: 1050
- FG: 1012
- Color (EBC): 27
- Bitterness (IBU): 30
- Alcohol (Vol%): 5.0
As you can see, these values fits perfectly within the range of the target values for brewing a Pale Ale.
About the Author
George McBarnes is an experienced craft brewer. George McBarnes is a founding member of the website http://www.brew-beer-home.com - a website that covers all the aspects of brewing homemade beer.