Brew Day - AG#3 Sierra Nevada American Pale Ale

The recipe for this clone of the Sierra Nevada American Pale Ale is taken from The Home Brew Forums.  You have to be a member to log in to their recipes area.  The recipe was originally for 25 litres, so we've converted the amounts slightly to match our 23 litre brew length.

Grain & Fermentables

• Pale Malt, 5300g
• Pale Crystal Malt, 280g
• Gypsum, 1tsp
• Epsom Salts, 1/2tsp

Hops & Copper Finings

• Magnum, 15g for 90mins
• Magnum, 10g for last 30mins
• Cascade, 50g for last 15mins
• Cascade, 25g steeped for 30mins post-boil while wort cools from 80°C
• Protafloc, 1 tablet last 15mins

Brew Details

• Brew Day: 17th January 2010
• Transfered to Secondary: 24th January 2010
• Bottled: 3rd February 2010 (44 Bottles)
• Yeast: Safale US-05
• Brew Length: 23 litres
• Mash Time: 90 minutes @ 67°C
• Water-to-Grain Ratio: 2:1
• Boil Time: 90 minutes
• OG - Recipe/Achieved: 1.054 / 1.052
• FG - Recipe/Achieved: 1.014 / 1.011
• ABV - Recipe/Achieved: 5.4% / 5.3%
• EBU/EBC: 54/14
• Priming: 82g granulated sugar mixed with 250ml of wort, boiled and stirred in before bottling

We use Graham Wheeler's Beer Engine software for capturing the recipe.  Here's the custom recipe file for this brew.

Pictures

The grain and salts waiting for the mash tun to get to strike temperature:

The eager assistant:

The customary shot of the mash tun tucked up in its jacket:

The mash tun during the run-off from the first batch:

One batch of the many hops to go in, and the steeped hops just after the chiller was turned on:

The hop debris, post drain-off; there's two heating elements in there somewhere!

With all the excitement of the 4 batches of hops, we forgot the protafloc :(  It's hasn't cleared down as much as it might have done had the protafloc been remembered - as illustrated by the murky trial jar during bottling.

More pictures here.

Dave & Suki.