Easy American Pale Ale - Extract 1.5 Gallon Finish Brew Sessions

Brew Session: Easy American Pale Ale - Extract 1.5 Gallon Finish

Onyxhawk 6/13/2019 12:00:00 AM

• Boil
• Fermentation

Originally calculated this recipe at 1.8 gallon boil size for 20 minutes and 1.5 gallon wort batch size (for extract only recipe). I increased LME from 2.2 lbs to 2.5 lbs of LME, which brought the boil size up to 2 gallons and then increased boil time to 60 minutes. This left a post-boil batch size of 1.3 gallons, after evaporation loss and some water loss retained by hops satchels. The OG landed at 1.070 and ~7.5% ABV... far too high. INITIAL STATS: OG 1.071, ~FG 1.014, 8.1 SRM, 40.6 IBU, ...