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Blood Bag Pale Ale #1

Ales

Availability:Bottled

An alternative sugar source beer styled as a pale ale.  We used peeled and chopped beet root in the mash in conjunction with 3 pounds of 6 row pale ale.  Thanks to Rios Family Farm in Little Flock for providing the beets for this experiment!

The namesake

If our math is correct, the beets themselves end up adding 1.059 points per pound per gallon, and that red color is just amazing!  We’re excited to take this idea further.  Perhaps a farmhouse is in order.

Please go read the write up right here!

Recipe Details

Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV
2.5 gal 60 min 72.5 IBUs 2.9 SRM 1.035 1.009 3.3 %

Style Details

Name Cat. OG Range FG Range IBU SRM Carb ABV
Alternative Sugar Beer 31 B 1.02 - 1.09 1.006 - 1.016 5 - 50 2 - 50 2 - 3 2 - 10 %

Fermentables

Name Amount %
Pale Malt (6 Row) US 3 lbs 85.71
Cara-Pils/Dextrine 8 oz 14.29

Hops

Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha %
Magnum 0.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 14
Cascade 0.5 oz 5 min Boil Pellet 5.5
Tettnang 0.5 oz 5 min Boil Pellet 4.5

Miscs

Name Amount Time Use Type
Beet Root 2.00 lb 0 min Mash Other

Yeast

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

Mash

Step Temperature Time
Saccharification 156°F 60 min
Mash Out 168°F 10 min