Recipe professionals, lend me your surefire 1 gallon pale ale/IPA/cream ale recipe please. I need something for the weekend (brewing an extract batch with a friend who hasn’t come to the dark side yet).
Anyone, Bueller?
Is also like to use specialty grains
california common is a nice one. sort of a pale ale.
~1-2 lb of extra light DME
~4 oz crystal 60
maybe .5 oz northern brewer at 60 and another .5 at flame out.
easy peasy
Isn’t that a lager? I would want an ale recipe.
Not really a lager; ferment around 58-60.
Not too many folks here brew one gallon patches I don’t think.
Northern Brewer has a lot of proven recipes and are cool enough to post them. Take a look.
Right, it’s a lager yeast, sort of, that works well at ale temps. it tends to throw a lot of sulfur but that passes.
Northern brewer is good but they don’t list which grains and the qty of the specialty grains.
When I mentioned northern brewer I was referring to the hop of that name. It is the traditional hop in california common. I do one with cascade which is also nice.
Yup, got it. Someone else mentioned the online store as well. That common will be too tough to regulate temps for my pal. Need an ale, don’t fail me now AHA.
well you can use the exact same recipe and ferment with us-05. it’s a pale ale!
So everything the same w cascade subbed and S-05 will be a drinkable PA?
Yum. You could get sneaky and bitter with .5 Perle, and then cram the Cascade at the end.
Ever had Bells two hearted? All Centennial IPA?
steep 4 oz CL 40
1.5 Gold LME
45 min boil
3.5 g Cent @45
3.5 g Cent @20
7.0 g Cent @ 5
7.0 g Cent @ 0
.5 packet US-05
Sure, Extra light DME and a little crystal malt is tasty .5 oz bittering hops might be a bit much, I didn’t work out the IBU just kind of tossed it out there.
It’s a lot easier to make a drinkable (especially just drinkable) or even a good ‘ale’ recipe than people think.
Keep it simple, base + 1 or 2 character malts (Remember with extract you already have some character malts in there most likely so you can go as simple as, some extract, but if you want to use steeping grains a little crystal in the medium color range is nice)
and then pick some hops you think you might like and add enough to get the bitterness you want and then some at the end (last 5 minutes or even 0 minutes and just let it rest after you turn the heat off for a couple minutes before chilling)
use a neutral yeast so you don’t have to think about it. us-05 is great for that because it’s dry so it’s easy to handle and cheap but it is clean and versatile.
Maybe I’ll get wild and do 2 batches, each w a different hop. CRAZY
if by crazy you mean AWESOME then yeah ;D
Here’s what I would do for a 1-gallon IPA. I’d only bother with a 15-minute boil, since it’s an extract batch. But then I’d hop stand/whirlpool for 60-90 minutes after the boil. IBU’s will end up measuring in the 90-100 IBU range, but probably only taste like 60-70 IBU’s.
Title: 1-Gallon IPA
Brew Method: Extract
Style Name: American IPA
Boil Time: 15 min
Batch Size: 1 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 1.5 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.043
Efficiency: 35% (steeping grains only)
No Chill: 10 minute extended hop boil time
STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.064
Final Gravity: 1.018
ABV (standard): 6.09%
IBU (tinseth): 292.38
SRM (morey): 6.61
FERMENTABLES:
1.5 lb - Dry Malt Extract - Extra Light (92.3%)
STEEPING GRAINS:
2 oz - American - Caramel / Crystal 40L (7.7%)
HOPS:
0.2 oz - Apollo, Type: Pellet, AA: 18, Use: Boil for 15 min, IBU: 50.65
0.5 oz - Apollo, Type: Pellet, AA: 18, Use: Boil for 0 min, IBU: 66.05
0.7 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 14.8, Use: Boil for 0 min, IBU: 76.03
0.7 oz - Meridian, Type: Pellet, AA: 6.7, Use: Boil for 0 min, IBU: 34.42
0.7 oz - Nelson Sauvin, Type: Pellet, AA: 12.7, Use: Boil for 0 min, IBU: 65.24
0.3 oz - Apollo, Type: Pellet, AA: 18, Use: Dry Hop for 7 days
0.3 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 14.8, Use: Dry Hop for 7 days
0.3 oz - Meridian, Type: Pellet, AA: 6.7, Use: Dry Hop for 7 days
0.3 oz - Nelson Sauvin, Type: Pellet, AA: 12.7, Use: Dry Hop for 7 days
YEAST:
Fermentis / Safale - American Ale Yeast US-05
Please explain hop stand/whirlpool.
i brew 1-2 gallon batches but it is hard to do those with liquid extract just because of cost. was easier to go all grain at that level
If you need a recipe for this weekend it would be too late but Brooklynbrewshop.com has a book with 52 recipes for all grain 1 gallon batches. They also give the 5 gallon equivalents. I’ve brewed a few of them and I thought they turned out well.