Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Cucumber Pale Ale

This pale ale is made with Amarillo hops that have a very unique flavor.  It will be light on hops and based on our first taste while bottling it will have a pretty bitter bite to it.  We went off the map for this one.  After 6 days we added 5 lbs of sliced cucumbers in the fermenter for 10 days to hopefully add a new spin on pale ale.  Also, transferred it twice before bottling in hopes of having less sentiment at the bottom so you can enjoy it out of the bottle.  Let's hop it turns out...

6 lb Gold liquid malt extract
1 lb light DME
8 oz Carapils
8 oz Caramel 60L specialty grains
1/2 oz Columbus hops
2 oz Amarillo hops

5 lbs skinned cucumber

O.G.   1.052
F.G.    1.014
ABV   4.99%

1 comment:

  1. Gettin crazy now, be interesting to try this one, just might work.

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