AG#15 Anchor Steam Clone

[carl_saint]

I absolutely love American Pale Ales, by far my favourite brews! Really love Sierra Nevada, Brooklyn and Sam Adams but my favourite is Anchor Steam.
Looked up different people's recipes online and also had a look at the Anchor brewery website. I came up with the below recipe and have brewed it today! Let me know what you think and ill keep this updated!

Batch Size : 19L

Maris Otter Pale Malt : 4.8kg
Caramalt : 500g
Black Malt : 30g

Mash Water : 13.2L
Strike Temp : 74.0
Mash Temp : 68.0
Preboil Vol : 27L
Boil Length : 60 mins

Northern Brewer Hops
40g @ 60 mins
20g @ 10 mins
20g @ 0 mins

Protofloc @ 15 mins

Final Vol : 19L
SG : 1.052
Expected FG : 1.010
Expected ABV : 5.6%
Yeast US-05

Sparge

Boil On

Hops Ready

Hops In

Chiller on

Final Colour

 

[oz11]

..Edit: Beg your pardon, sir :hat: I saw the first line of your post and ignored the title.

As you were...carry on...

:clap:

 

[Sean_Mc]

Nice looking brew carl :thumb:

How long do think it will take to condition, I think of NB as a harsh hop, I've only ever used it as a bittering hop in APA's

 

[carl_saint]

TBH Sean this is this first time I've used NB. Usually use Simcoe and Cascade. It'll have 2 weeks in the FV then into a keg. High pressure for a few days then ill be trying! Will be posting results on this one!

 

[Sean_Mc]

:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Good Ed]

Well done :thumb:

I've done a Californian Common brew a few times but always used WLP810 San Francisco Lager yeast, let us know how this turns out with US-05

 

[carl_saint]

If it turns out well I think I might try it again with WLP060 not see how it differs!

 

[carl_saint]

Kegged this today after 12 days in primary. FG was 1.008 so turned out to be 5.8%. Very happy with the strength. Having tried the sample I pulled, even though it wasn't cold or carbonated I was expecting more aroma. The taste was beautiful but I think I missed out on dry hopping this one, it would have really benefitted from extra aroma. We'll see how it turns out in a few weeks!