Pale Ale (All Grain)

Wicked Ole Ale

Beer Style: old ale, pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I love this ale! It’s dark, malty, and sweet. However, it does have a bite to it! It has a fine roasted character and it is moderately strong (7% alc. by vol.) Here’s the recipe for a step infusion mash. Please e-mail me and tell me what you think. Ingredients: …

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Vail Pale Ale

Beer Style: pale ale, India pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I would like to share with everyone my IPA recipe that won two gold medals at GABF in ’92 & ’94 when I worked for the Hubcap Brewey in Vail, CO. The same recipe won the gold this year from the Hubcap in Dallas, TX. Ingredients: 10 lbs. Bairds …

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Summer Pale Ale

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This ale is light in color, but full-bodied. If you want an amber color, add a cup of caramel malt. I get a strong banana odor in most of my ales (from the Edme I believe) which subsides after 2-3 weeks in the bottle. If you don’t have the capacity for 9 …

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Really Incredible Ale

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: The wheat helps make a beer very suitable to a warm climate. This has been a hot summer; it has topped 100 degrees (in the shade) several times. Ingredients: 5-7 pounds, pale malt 3 pounds crystal malt 2 pounds wheat 2 ounces Northern Brewer hops 1 ounce Hallertauer hops 1/2 ounce Cascade …

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Pirate Ale

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Ingredients: 8 # British 2-row .5 #British crystal malt .5 # Wheat Malt .5 # Golden Brown sugar .75 oz Willamette (60 mins) .50 oz East Kent Goldings (EKG) (60) —-I had to use up some hops 1 oz EKG leaf hops (60) 1 oz EKG leaf hops (30) 1 oz EKG …

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Pete’s Wicked Clone

Beer Style: pale ale, Pete’s Wicked Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I’ve requested a recipe for Pete’s Wicked Ale, but nobody sent one, so I guess I’m going to have to wing it. This recipe is based on the GABF program, which says ” Pete’s has: pale, crystal and chocolate malts, and Chinook and Cascade hops. OG: 14P” (Isn’t that …

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Perle Pale

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Perle pale was a beautiful light-golden ale, crisp yet full-bodied. Ingredients: 8 pounds, Klages malt 1 pound, flaked barley 1/2 pound, toasted Klages malt 1/2 pound, Cara-pils malt 1-1/2 ounces (12.4 AAUs), Perle hops (boil) 1/2 ounce, Willamette hops (finish) 1 teaspoon, gypsum 1/2 teaspoon, Irish moss 14 grams, Muntona ale yeast …

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Pale Rye Ale

Beer Style: pale ale, rye ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This one is not bitter at all and the taste of the rye really comes through. I like to keep this one around in the summer so my friends don’t have to give me “bitter beer face” when I serve them my IPA. I take no credit for this recipe, …

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Old Man Pyle

Beer Style: old ale, pale ale, Old Peculier Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This recipe has been changed a bit from the original brew to allow for changes in my home brewery. The original was intended to dupe Old Peculier and it did an adequate job at that. It did a much better job, though, standing on its own as a …

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Not So Pale Ale

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Here’s a question for you judges/style gurus. I just bottled a beer which I had intended to be a pale ale. I often add 1/2 to 1 pound of crystal to a pale. I attempted to get the same color by using 2 ounces of chocolate malt. I now know that Ingredients: …

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