Virtual October 10 Big Brew
Greetings Club Members,
As we struggle to create content that connects us while we all isolate alone we have hit upon a unique way to support the ‘Teach a friend to homebrew’ day on October 10th by doing a Big Brew on Zoom from all of our back yards!
We have selected American Brown Ale as our style (recipe below courtesy of Dean Sussman) and hope everyone will join along and brew a batch. If Brown Ale is not your style, you can brew any beer you want! The point is to brew together alone, it does not matter what you brew!
The virtual zoom portion of the brew day will start at 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM
The Zoom link will be sent by separate e-mail. If you did not get the email but want to join the meeting send me an email at president@pacificgravity.org and I will forward it to you.
So swing by the shop, buy your ingredients and let’s brew some beer!
American Brown Ale
Targets: 5.5 gallons of wort, 1.052 OG, 1.012 FG, 22 IBU, 25 SRM, 5.2% ABV [see Note #1 below]
This recipe aims to produce a “middle-of-the-road” American Brown Ale: not too strong, not too bitter, not too hoppy, with a nice malt-and-chocolate profile.
This beer should pair wonderfully with Thanksgiving dinner. And if you brew it during the October 10 Pacific Gravity Big Brew, it should be ready just in time for Thanksgiving!
8.0 lb. American 2-row malt [see Note #2 below]
2.0 lb. Munich malt 10°L [see Note #2 below]
12.0 oz American chocolate malt 350°L
10.0 oz. CaraMunich malt 60°L
0.4 oz. Chinook hop pellets 11.6% AA for 60 minutes
0.5 oz. Cascade hop pellets 7.3% AA for 10 minutes
0.5 oz. Cascade hop pellets 7.3% AA for 0 minutes
White Labs WLP001 American Ale Yeast [see Note #3 below]
Mash grains at 152°F for 60 minutes.
Sparge to get about 7.0 gallons of wort.
Boil wort for 60 minutes, adding hops according to schedule above.
Cool wort and pitch yeast.
Note #1: These targets are based on an assumed efficiency of about 70%, and an apparent yeast attenuation of about 76%. Your mileage may vary, and you may need to adjust things based on how your homebrew system works.
Note #2: For an extract version of this recipe, substitute the American 2-row malt and the Munich malt with 7.5 lb. of light malt extract.
Note #3: Here are just a few possible substitutes for the WLP001 American Ale Yeast (but the possibilities are endless): White Labs WLP051, Wyeast 1056, Wyeast 1272, Safale US-05.
