American Pale Ale May 7, 2011

Gary, Byron and I have decided that we are going to work on making the same recipe until we can get a consistent flavor and ABV, so we brewed the same American Pale Ale recipe as the April 16 batch.  In case you don't feel like looking back at that post, the recipe is as follows:

Grains:
9 lbs. US 2-Row
10 oz Crystal 60L
10 oz Crystal 40L
10 oz Crystal Special B
1/2 lb Carapils
Hops:
1/2 oz Goldings @ 60 minutes (the time refers to the amount of time left in the boil, not how long it has already boiled)
1 oz Cascade @ 15 minutes
1/2 oz Goldings - Dry Hop
1/2 oz Cascade - Dry Hop
Clarifiers:
1 Whirfloc Tablet (Irish Moss) @ 15 minutes
2 tsp Gelatin Finings at secondary rackover
Mash:
4 gal Water @ 155 degrees for 90 minutes
Boil:
90 minutes
Yeast:
Safale US-05 Dry Yeast from wort starter

We brewed on May 7 and racked the beer into the secondary on May 12.  It is still in the secondary and will probably be kegged around May 26.

The only change that we made was adding the Gelatin Finings when we racked the beer into the secondary.  We hope it will make this beer even clearer than the previous batch.

Our April batch had a starting gravity of 1.056
Our May batch had a starting gravity of 1.059, so there is going to be some variation in the alcohol content, but we won't know how much until we keg the beer.

I do like the color of this batch a bit more.  It looks richer.

 I will update if we make any changes.