English Rye Pale Ale Homebrew Recipe
Earlier in the year Lee Williams (aka @hoptopia) and I had been talking about brewing a beer together. In May Lee, Stevie Caldarola, and I finally did. We both wanted to brew something in an english style. I wanted to include rye and Lee wanted to use Northdown hops, so we came up with this recipe. Unfortunately the Northdown hops were not available when we brewed this, so we substituted Challenger hops instead. As always, please use this recipe and if you brew it, let me know how it turned out and what you might change or what you did change.
| Brewing Steps: English Rye Pale Ale |
| Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) |
| Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal |
Brewer: Peter Kennedy, Lee Williams, Stevie Caldarola |
| Boil Size: 6.43 gal | |
| Boil Time: 60 min | |
| Final Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal | |
| Taste Notes: – Great flavor after a couple of weeks of conditioning. Really needs a Diacetyl Rest – bit hazy, maybe a cold crash would have helped or finings – Good lacing, head retention could be a bit better. |
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| Prepare for Brewing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clean and Prepare Brewing Equipment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Water Needed: 8.41 gal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mash or Steep Grains | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mash Ingredients
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Mash Steps
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| Fly sparge with 0.13 gal water at 168.0 F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boil Wort | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Add water to achieve boil volume of 6.43 gal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Estimated pre-boil gravity is 1.055 SG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boil Ingredients
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| Estimated Post Boil Vol: 5.72 gal and Est Post Boil Gravity: 1.064 SG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cool and Prepare Fermentation | |||||||||||
| Cool wort to fermentation temperature | |||||||||||
| Transfer wort to fermenter | |||||||||||
| Add water to achieve final volume of 5.00 gal | |||||||||||
Fermentation Ingredients
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| Measure Actual Original Gravity _______ (Target: 1.064 SG) | |||||||||||
| Measure Actual Batch Volume _______ (Target: 5.00 gal) | |||||||||||
| Fermentation | |||||||||||
| 05/26/2011 – Primary Fermentation (4.00 days at 68.0 F ending at 68.0 F) | |||||||||||
| 05/30/2011 – Secondary Fermentation (7.00 days at 68.0 F ending at 68.0 F) | |||||||||||
| Dry Hop and Prepare for Bottling/Kegging
Dry Hop/Bottling Ingredients
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| Measure Final Gravity: _________ (Estimate: 1.017 SG) | |||||||||||
| Date Bottled/Kegged: 06/06/2011 – Carbonation: Bottle with 3.78 oz Corn Sugar | |||||||||||
| Age beer for 28.00 days at 52.0 F | |||||||||||
| 07/04/2011 – Drink and enjoy! | |||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
Mash Temp at 152 deg
Transfer wort from Mash to boil kettle
1.5 ounces of Challenger Hops ready for the kettle
Active boil with the hop bag in place
Transfer to the primary fermentor
So please tell us how it came out, this looks like a promissing recipe
it was good, I would have added a couple of grams for gypsum to give it more bite.