We’ve caught up a bit on IPAs with the Simcoe IPA and the Alpha King, so today we brewed an American pale ale, the second batch of the Snake River clone. Malt is Golden Promise, crystal, and Munich, with Chinook, Goldings, and Cascade hops. Gravity was 1.052 and we repitched the English ale yeast for the sixth time. It did well fermenting the Simcoe IPA, reaching a gravity of 1.011 starting from 1.070. Probably too well, since the Simcoe has quite a bit of heat from the alcohol, which is almost 8%. We racked half of the Simcoe batch to secondary and the other half went into a corny and was force-carbonated.

We had all three handpumps running during the brew session, and they were all very nice. The Landlord is very pale and quite light and crisp, the Simcoe Pale Ale has just enough Simcoe flavour without being overwhelming for the light gravity, and the Boathouse Bitter is still hoppy and citrusy after a few months.