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Green Tea Pale Ale

18B - American Pale Ale

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A dank pale ale with a heavy green tea bite.

This beer included a few new methods and techniques for my brewing toolbox:

Using tea in a beer
Actually going into secondary
Dry hopping and Dry Tea-ing
Gelatin Fining

Recipe Details

Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV
5 gal 60 min 34.3 IBUs 9.3 SRM 1.054 1.014 5.2 %

Style Details

Name Cat. OG Range FG Range IBU SRM Carb ABV
American Pale Ale 18 B 1.045 - 1.06 1.01 - 1.015 30 - 50 5 - 10 2.3 - 3 4.5 - 6.2 %

Fermentables

Name Amount %
Pale Malt, Maris Otter 8 lbs 80
Cara-Pils/Dextrine 1 lbs 10
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L 1 lbs 10

Hops

Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha %
Citra 0.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 12
Centennial 0.33 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 10
Cascade 0.66 oz 10 min Boil Pellet 5.5
Citra 1 oz 7 days Dry Hop Pellet 12

Miscs

Name Amount Time Use Type
Irish Moss 1.00 tsp 10 min Boil Fining
Green Tea (loose leaf) 12.00 oz 0 min Boil Flavor
Green Tea (loose leaf) 4.00 oz 7 days Secondary Flavor
Gelatin 0.50 tsp 0 min Bottling Fining

Yeast

Name Lab Attenuation Temperature
Safale American (US-05) DCL/Fermentis 77% 59°F - 75°F

Mash

Step Temperature Time
Mash In 156°F 45 min

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