Little Joe's Pale Ale 03/29/14

I woke up early this morning, I just couldn't go back to sleep. So I came downstairs at 4:30 am and started to fill the hot liquor tank.  By 6:00 am, I was mashing in, eating breakfast, and had some bread dough rising. I decided to make some "Easter style" bread.

Back to the pale ale.

I went with a grist of 41% American 2 row,  46% English Optic malt, 7% white wheat and 6% carafoam.

I hop bursted with 40 grams of Simcoe and 40 grams of Columbus for 15 minutes.

Mash ph was 5.25 with 4G gypsum added.

I stopped sparging when I hit a PH of 5.57 and OG was 1.008.

Yeast was 3rd generation WLP007 - pitched at 64 degrees.

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