Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Recipe Instructions

This recipe is available as an Aussie Brewmakers Recipe Kit, order no. 19885

 This recipe is our version of a classic American Beer – the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. This beer is an excellent pale ale style beer with a deep amber colour and a full flavour. It includes steeped and dry hopped Cascade Hops which give the beer its classic pale ale fruity, fragrant notes. If you are a fan of pale ales then you will not be disappointed. This recipe is another perfect way to take hopped extract beer kits to another level and is a great introduction to experimenting with hops and steeping grains for the beginner or ‘tin kit’ brewer.

Ingredients:

• 7kg Black Rock Pale Ale Beer Kit
• 1.0kg Beer Improver (500g Light Dried Malt Extract / 500g Dextrose)
• 2 x 200g Dextrose
• 15g Morgan’s Premium American Ale Yeast
• 2 x 12g Cascade Finishing Hops (1 for steeping and 1 for dry hopping)
• 150g Cracked Crystal Grain (steeped)

 Other Ingredients:

• 200g of Dextrose if kegging with no secondary fermentation

Method:

1. Clean / sterilize all equipment including fermenter, paddle, mug and jug (used for steeping)
2. Discard Black Rock Pale Ale tin yeast and sit tin in hot water for 10 minutes
3. Boil 1.25ltrs of water in kettle
4. Steep 150g of Cracked Crystal Grain in 1L of boiling water for 15 minutes
5. Steep 12g of Cascade Finishing Hops in 250mls of boiling water for 10 minutes
6. Re-boil kettle with 2.25L of water
7. Add 1.25ltrs of boiled water to fermenter and add 1kg of Beer Improver and 2 x 200g Dextrose and stir thoroughly until dissolved
8. Add Black Rock Pale Ale tin to fermenter and stir thoroughly to dissolve
9. Pour 500mls of boiled water into the Black Rock Pale Ale tin and stir then add to fermenter
10. Strain steeped Cracked Crystal Grain into the fermenter and rinse with 500mls boiled water (do not add grain to fermenter)
11. Add cold water to fermenter to 22.5 ltrs and test temperature – make sure it is between 20-24 degrees before pitching yeast
12. Take initial hydrometer reading
13. Add steeped Cascade Finishing Hops bag and mug of water to fermenter
14. Pitch 15g Premium American Ale Yeast and stir gently
15. On day 2 of fermentation add 12g Cascade Finishing Hops bag to fermenter and gently stir in with sterilized paddle (dry hop)
16. When fermentation is finished check with hydrometer and bottle as per normal.

N.B. If kegging, add 200g of Dextrose at step 7