Malt Bomb Pale Ale

Its been a while since I have brewed so I decided to make a malt bomb of a pale ale. I was planning on doing it all grain but I had 3lbs dme on hand so I threw that in as well. I am brewing this with my homegrown goldings hops as well! The recipe follows:

5gal Batch
10lbs pale malt
1lb crystal 60 malt
3lbs pale DME
3 oz goldings hops
american ale yeast

• Mash grain with 16.5 quarts (15.5L) of water @ 150F. Mash for 60min, stiring every 15min well maintaining the mash temp.
• Collect wort and sparge remaining grain with 24.75 quarts (23.5L) @ 170f
• Add all collected wort to your brew pot along with the DME and bring the a boil.
• Boil for 45mins dividing 2oz of hops at :45, :15 and flame out.
  
• Cool wort in an ice water bath.
• Transfer cooled wort to a carboy and pitch yeast.
• Primary ferment for 1 week.
• Rack beer into a secondary onto the last 10z of hops and dry hop for one week.
• With dry hopping complete rack again and allow the beer to settle out for another week.
• Once the beer has cleared, rack off the lees, mix in prime sugar (3oz sucrose dissolved in 2 cups water) and bottle.
• Bottle carbonation should take another week.
• Enjoy!
  

Mashing

Boiling

Hot Break

Carboy after pitching the yeast.

The Malt Bomb came out at 1.075 OG, a big pale indeed!

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