
Pale Galaxy Smash
Specialty Beer • All Grain • 5.5 gal
A Single Malt Single Hop All Grain Session Beer (Pale Ale Malt/Any High Alpha Hop) - I used Galaxy Hops (which isn't on the list)
February 16, 2015 am 10:42am
Ingredients (All Grain, 5.5 gal)
- 8.5 lbs
Pale Ale Malt; Weyermann®
Pale Ale Malt; Weyermann®
German-grown two-row spring barley (2004 harvest). Product Characteristics: Processed specifically for “English” characteristics. Highly modified for use with both single- or multi-step infusion. Perfect foundation grist for all ales, but yields great results in lager-making, too. Low protein and glucan levels for easy lautering and high extract efficiency. Provides excellent body, pale color, and complex maltiness to finished brew. Recommended Quantities: Up to 100% of total grain bill. Suitability (beer styles): All ales (including Stout, Porter, Belgian beers)
- 1 oz
Equinox™ - 15.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Equinox™
A pronounced aroma profile with citrus, tropical fruit, floral and herbal characteristics. Specific descriptors include lemon, lime, papaya, apple, and green pepper. Developed by the Hop Breeding Company. The diversified and pronounced aroma characteristics combined with extremely high oil content and a tight cone structure make this hop variety very unique.—hopunion.com
- 1.0 oz
Equinox™ - 15.0 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
Equinox™
A pronounced aroma profile with citrus, tropical fruit, floral and herbal characteristics. Specific descriptors include lemon, lime, papaya, apple, and green pepper. Developed by the Hop Breeding Company. The diversified and pronounced aroma characteristics combined with extremely high oil content and a tight cone structure make this hop variety very unique.—hopunion.com
- 1 oz
Equinox™ - 15.0 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min
Equinox™
A pronounced aroma profile with citrus, tropical fruit, floral and herbal characteristics. Specific descriptors include lemon, lime, papaya, apple, and green pepper. Developed by the Hop Breeding Company. The diversified and pronounced aroma characteristics combined with extremely high oil content and a tight cone structure make this hop variety very unique.—hopunion.com
- 1 tbsp
5.2 pH Stabilizer - in mash tun 1Tbsp/5gal (omitted from calculations)
5.2 pH Stabilizer
Five Star 5.2 pH Stabilizer. A proprietary blend of food-grade phosphate buffers that locks in your mash and kettle water at a pH of 5.2, regardless of the starting pH. It also reduces scaling and mineral deposits on brewing equipment. 1 pound. Use at the rate of 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons of water.
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Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05
Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05
The most famous ale yeast strain found across America, now available as a ready-to-pitch dry yeast. Produces well balanced beers with low diacetyl and a very clean, crisp end palate. Sedimentation: low to medium. Final gravity: medium. Pitching instructions: Re-hydrate the dry yeast into yeast cream in a stirred vessel prior to pitching. Sprinkle the dry yeast in 10 times its own weight of sterile water or wort at 27C± 3C(80F ±6F). Once the expected weight of dry yeast is reconstituted into cream by this method (this takes about 15 to 30 minutes), maintain a gentle stirring for another 30 minutes. Then pitch the resultant cream into the fermentation vessel. Alternatively, pitch dry yeast directly in the fermentation vessel providing the temperature of the wort is above 20C(68F). Progressively sprinkle the dry yeast into the wort ensuring the yeast covers all the surface of wort available in order to avoid clumps. Leave for 30 minutes and then mix the wort e.g. using aeration.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 23 - Specialty Beer
Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer
Range for this Style | |||
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Original Gravity: | 1.041 | 1.026 - 1.120 | ![]() |
Terminal Gravity: | 1.008 | 0.995 - 1.035 | ![]() |
Color: | 4.6 SRM | 1 - 50 | ![]() |
Alcohol: | 4.2% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | ![]() |
Bitterness: | 95.2 IBU | 0 - 100 | ![]() |
Discussion
Nice and Simple
2015-02-16 10:44am
A nice and simple SMaSH...I used Australian Galaxy Hops not Equinox (Galaxy isn't on the calculator list). A nice hoppy and crisp beer. Make sure to get full attentuation from your yeast, healthy yeast, good aeration, etc. Mind didn't fully attenuate to 1.008, it's about 1.011, so its not a crisp as it could have been. But still very enjoyable and easy to drink, low ABV, so you can have a few. Came out very nicely. Enjoy!