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Anytime Ale

Anytime Ale

Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) • Extract • 5 gal

Libnick

When you want to brew fast and cheap...and have some decent hop flavor.

May 28, 2008 pm 06:45pm

0.0/5.0 0 ratings

Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 7 lbs Liquid Light Extract

    Liquid Light Extract

    A brewer can create any beer style with this extract when used as a base in conjunction with colored malts and selected hops. Contains no colored malts or hops.

  • 1 oz Columbus - 12.2 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Columbus

    Used mainly for bittering with some flavor qualities as well. Aroma is pleasant.

  • .5 oz Centennial - 9.5 AA% pellets; boiled 30 min

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • .5 oz Centennial - 9.5 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    A well-known, commercial English ale yeast, selected for its fast fermentation character and its ability to form a very compact sediment at the end of the fermentation, helping to improve beer clarity. This yeast is recommended for the production of a large range of ale beers and is specially well adapted to cask-conditioned ales and fermentation in cylindro-conical tanks. Sedimentation: high. 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. 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. 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.

Notes

This was originally made to be a fast, easy, and VERY cheap brew day. WOW did it turn out excellent more than once. VERY nice hoppiness.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 8 - English Pale Ale

Subcategory: C - Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.049 1.048 - 1.060
Terminal Gravity: 1.015 1.010 - 1.016
Color: 4.9 SRM 6 - 18
Alcohol: 4.5% ABV 4.6% - 6.2%
Bitterness: 62.8 IBU 30 - 50

Discussion

Libnick

Great IPA

2008-06-27 3:47pm

This turned out way better than expected. Very nice hoppiness from the two strong types of hops. Smooth flavor and just a nice brew to drink. If you want a nice fast extract brew to make try it and let it age out about 6-8 weeks, you won't be sorry.

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