Brewing a CRUSHABLE American Pale Ale with CASCADE Hops | Grain to Glass

[@jtherriault7358]

That magnet dry hop trick is brilliant 👌

[@AndreasAlt-b1g]

Sounds awesome

[@MidLifeFlysis]

Thanks for all the great videos... I've binge watched a ton in the last week and they are very helpful for someone just getting in to homebrewing

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Glad they've been so helpful!

[@Kazaii64]

Perfect! I have 360 grams of Cascade in the freezer and now I have inspiration to use it.

[@clubroot3383]

That’s a great beer! East Kent Golding is also a very popular hop along with Cascade in this style of beer in real ales over here in England. Thanks for another great video.

[@ReishiSamurai]

Great Channel. All respect! I just bottled my cascade beer yesterday. I brew it with European pils malt,S05,and cascade hopstand 80C for 20 min(I brewed last year same and it was like tangerine lager). I will use Maris Otter next time. For me, cascade is most interesting USA hop. I am not big hophead and cascade is really most suptile USA hop with pleasant bitternes and that tangerine grapefruit finish and it's perfect for the summer beer. I really want to brew some lager with cascade. It will be an interesting thing., Cheers !

[@elibyrd2112]

I just brewed a Sierra Nevada clone for my first brew. All Cascade with Pale Malt and Caramel 60L and it was good! I would love to try it with the Maris Otter and Vienna Malt! Next time, I'm going to follow your recipe! Keep those videos coming! I've learned a lot from you and look forward to each one you release.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Awesome! That sounds really good as well. I'm thinking a touch of caramel malt would have been quite nice for this brew.

[@BeerMan421]

What a wonderful beer you created! that looks great! Excellent instructional as always...you’re very good at what you do man! Cheers 🍻 bro!

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@DiscoLew90]

Great video, thanks for the recipe...going to try this out soon!!

[@dimash244]

Wish you shared this yesterday :) Brewed pale ale, with cascade too Nice shirt!

[@mattle8667]

That magnet idea with the dry hops is genius, definitely trying that out!

[@TravGnome]

What stainless object are you using? I'm having trouble finding something that'll hold to my magnets without weighing too much.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Sometimes a clean and sanitized kitchen utensil or ball bearings/marbles

[@TravGnome]

@@TheApartmentBrewer That's a good idea, I've got stainless ball bearings lying around, thanks!

[@seriomarkj]

That dry hop idea is genius!!!

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Thanks!

[@brokentreebrewingco7034]

Dude your subscribers shot up! Congrats, great video. love me some cascade. I just brewed a porter that used it three times.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

It's crazy! Thank you! I'm not sure what happened but I'm having fun doing this. Cheers!

[@graymalkin26]

My favorite hop.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Cascade is one of the best!

[@jasonwarthman7786]

I have done a couple of your recipes. And have loved them

[@fuzzybeard17]

Used this recipe for my first all-grain batch. It’s in the fermenter now, hoping it turns out as good as yours looked!

[@samwilson9660]

How did it turn out?

[@fuzzybeard17]

@@samwilson9660 Drinking it right now! It’s not as dry as in the video but still decent (FG of 1.010). I’m getting more of a sweet malt flavor/aroma than citrus, but that’s definitely due to my brewing process as it was only my first all grain batch.

[@fuzzybeard17]

Another update: it’s getting even better after 2 weeks in the keg. Definitely getting a light citrus aroma and flavor with a strong sweet malt backbone now. It’s super clear now too. Thanks for the recipe, cheers!

[@JoshuaAdkisson]

i have to agree with you on Maris Otter, it's pretty amazing as a base malt... i love it. I tend to prefer the English Pale's over the American Pale's though... good video either way! Thanks for continuing to brew!

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Definitely my favorite, I find myself using it instead of 2 row most of the time. Thanks!

[@Brutusdaskybo]

Love your stuff man!

[@pv4669]

I like the bright appearance to the beer. Curious about the strikethroughs on the recipe (dry hops, yeast, FG, etc.) Thanks

[@AddkisonAlesAndLagers]

Great video! Love some Cascade. That US-05 did some work! The dryness definitely doesn't sound like it hurt anything. If you want to try something to fight against the beers getting too dry, you could do a mashout at 168-170F to halt the enzymes. I started doing that with my British and IPA brews because they were all finishing pretty low. You may already do that I couldn't remember from your other brews.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Definitely a good suggestion, but I'm actually gonna try and keep my hop forward beers on the drier side for a while and see if I continue to like it. I'll occasionally do a mash out on certain beers but most of the time I leave it out.

[@RayDineen]

Great video, I just had the same beer planned to brew!

[@kevinwatson9378]

Made it tonight, looks like it's going to be about 6% all went well. 🤞. Hydrometer reading before adding the yeast is 1060 and around 20litres I used 4.5kg of Marris Otter with 500g of Vienna and altogether 95grams of cascade and I've kept 5g of cascade to dry hop hopefully will turn out to be a nice drink. 🙂

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Nice!

[@kevinwatson9378]

Its absolutely lovely best I've ever made thank you

[@DrHansBrewery]

Sounds nice!

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Thank you!

[@depfeffel6455]

I'm still new to this but find your content properly inspiring. The neodymium magnet idea has just solved my total fear of dry hopping and infecting my beer. Thank you man! Awesome stuff. Half way through vid, hope it turns out awesome 😁

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Awesome! I wouldn't worry too much about infection from dry hopping regardless (hops are naturally antimicrobial) but I'm glad I could help!

[@depfeffel6455]

@@TheApartmentBrewer I really should know this, given the fabled history of the IPA, but still, cheers 😁. I might well start a channel as I'm building a coffin keezer over the coming weeks (hopefully won't turn out terribly haha!)

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

@@depfeffel6455 no worries! And good luck on the keezer build! It'll change everything haha

[@adamgodofwar666]

I've been getting into maris otter myself. I started brewing trying to use just standard 2 row, and 2 roe plae ale malt and its lack luster. I thought using crystal malts with it would help but even in small quantities its too sweet and cloying. Maris otter by itself has a perceived sweetness too me even at super low gravities that is absolutely what I've been looking for in my brews. It gives that extra depth of malt flavor that pale 2 row just can't reach unless mixed with some other sweet sugary malt. My smash beers with standard 2 row almost taste like hopped water honestly. Ultra light and not good enough in the flavor department. Maris otter is the way to go! Agreed!

[@adlap6700]

Cascade hops are bloody delicious. Great colour on that. You're a god damn rock star.

[@thomasfrank1227]

Love! I’ve got a smash recipe in my queue and this combination looks ideal, I think I’m gonna give this a try.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

I appreciate all the comments! I'm really happy youre enjoying my channel and I can help you out, feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

[@thomasfrank1227]

@@TheApartmentBrewer Thanks. I find your delivery style to be very easy to understand and I already have a general background of the brewing process so it's a nice way to validate what I'm doing plus learn new things. (if that makes sense). I also find it normal that sometime we make "errors" and we then try to figure out the root cause and trace it back and see how that process step influenced the end product

[@Lukaish]

I really thought it would be overly bitter, due to the low fg and actually quite high ibu's for an american pale ale.... nice that it turned out great

[@jdmlong]

Tried the magnet thing. Worked great. Working from home and having a taster at noon. Oh and I accidentally threw the magnet in the trash with the used hops.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Nice! Glad it worked out well, jealous of your WFH!

[@laurenceprantner8618]

I like the recipe, mine is very much the same, although I dry hop with pellets at yeast pitch; I just toss them in at a rate of 2oz per 5 gallons; as I brew 10 gallons at a time, that's 4oz. Thanks for the video!

[@charljoubert6993]

Thanks for a great video. Ordered my grainbill, next Saturday is brew day. Greetings from South Africa.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Cheers! I hope the brew goes well!

[@rollacoastaride1937]

I just recently did my second home brew, attempting to make a strong Belgian triple, and I used cascade hops, after the fermenting and during the bottling process, I could not help smell the aroma of apples and pears, especially the pears aroma, not citrusy at all, so I can't wait to try the finished beer.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Interesting idea using Cascade in a Belgian beer, should be interesting to see what it turns out like! I think the pear and apple characters you're getting are most likely Belgian yeast though

[@rollacoastaride1937]

@@TheApartmentBrewer yep, you got it, I used Belgian yeast, yep

[@tylerseawright7894]

I've seen your magnet dry hop technique everywhere! Very clever idea!

[@ricardomendonca9048]

Great job, sounds very enjoyable this recepie.

[@tommanning7337]

Man, nothing like a nice APA on a hot day! Like a 3fff Zombie Dust 👍🏻👍🏻 great vid man🍺🍺 cheers

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Cheers! Thanks, this is a pretty awesome summer beer!

[@waltd2133]

Would you adjust the water profile at all for this recipe? Great videos! Thanks for sharing!

[@Zumaray]

I would with any beer that has dry hops or hop stand hops.

[@bradalden8347]

Looks good

[@bumpy-isms]

Very nice brew.... wow 8oz of hopping that must have been a pretty penny Cheers Steve

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Yeah the bulk buy is the way to go for this one haha. Cheers jesse!

[@denny0104]

Can you do a video on the effects of some of the grains you use? Taste, color, etc?

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

I'll keep it in mind!

[@Kberrysal]

Good idea with dry hoping

[@GenusBrewing]

Is the high-ish sodium from your tap or do you build up to that? (Asking because I like highish sodium in a lot of my beers :p )

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Thanks for watching the video! Yup, I get 65 ppm sodium from my municipal water supply that I usually just work with. Fun fact, I didn't quite realize the positive impact it was having on my beers until I watched one of your live streams and you guys mentioned adding NaCl to get the sodium count up.

[@GenusBrewing]

@@TheApartmentBrewer nice! It's a mineral not alot of people think about in there beer :)

[@bigjplay]

Great video and a really good job. Its def citris summer ale recipe weather. Have you ever used Azacca hops in any of your pale ales or IPA's? They contribute and incredible pineapple flavor and aroma! Happy Brewing! (edited for grammar)

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Oh its on my list for sure. I'm really having a lot of fun brewing these single hop beers and I'd love to do one with Azacca!

[@TwoandaHalfPintsHomebrew]

I love Cascade plus Maris Otter. Something about that bready-biscuit plus grapefruit-pine is magical. Got 2 8oz cans of YVH Cascade to play around with. Do you think the grassiness will go away with conditioning time? I have found anecdotally that US-05 and other Chico yeasts tend to accentuate grassiness, whereas English yeasts might smooth the edges.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Yes! It is really a winning combo. I found that the grassiness did indeed fade with time but so did the hop flavor, so not exactly a big win. Cryo hops would have been awesome though and would have cut down on that of course.

[@Javaman92]

That magnet trick is gold! HOW do you get a boil on your kitchen stove?

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

I had an electric element that supplemented the boil, otherwise no chance

[@clsmokes]

Cold brook, would you happen to be from Bangor?

[@jimbam8590]

Another great vid. . Where did you get magnets? 🍺

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Just some cheap ones I got off Amazon. Stack of 5 about 1 inch across

[@jdmlong]

My next brew is going to be cascade-only. Also nothing but 2-row. So it might end up being boring. But that magnet thing is a great idea. I'm wondering if I could make it work with a big mouth bubbler. I'm picturing magnetting to the upper curve of the fermenter then dragging the internal magnet down the side and hanging it in the middle. The only thing I wonder about is filling up the headspace with kraussen and sludging up the hop bag. Anyway, this looks great.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

I'm sure that would work fine if you can keep the bag rolled up or something. I used to have one of those and it was awesome. Hope it works well!

[@Frankyusa07]

The recipe looks delicious. Just one question: how do you get to your IBU value? To me this looks way too low. My grainfather app calculates the following (with the same AA %): 1 OZ 60min 21 IBU; 1OZ 20min 16 IBU; 1OZ 15min 14 IBU; 1OZ 10min 13 IBU; 2OZ 0min 14IBU

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

I think it probably comes down to a difference in the IBU formula between grainfather and beersmith

[@tman9338]

Great idea for magnet? Can I get a link to get some ??

[@tomfodenfilm]

What keg do you use also what is your draft system you have set up just started my first few brews and interested in upgrading

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Awesome, its well worth the upgrade! All the stuff I use is linked in the description. Its Torpedo kegs and most of the draft system was put together with parts I bought from my local homebrew shop. There are a lot of good videos out there on youtube on how to assemble one. Cheers!

[@kevinwatson9378]

I'm in the UK just bought myself a Klarstein brew kettle and ordered a 25kg sack of crushed Marris Otter + 100g of cascade so hoping to make a 5 gallon batch of your recipe really soon 😊 also i subscribed 👍

[@kevinwatson9378]

+ ordered 500g of Vienna only thing I've done differently is ordered a Belgian ale yeast ( ordered before I had a plan, but will hopefully be ok? )

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Best of luck! Let me know how it goes!

[@kevinwatson9378]

@@TheApartmentBrewer will do fingers crossed as it is going to be my 1st all grain brew. But I have been doing extract kits for maybe 15yr.. so hopefully nothing will go wrong and I can do even better on this venture, I hate my job so maybe even branch out into a micro brewery as a job? Who knows 🤞

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Keep the dream alive!

[@dirtydeebracing3167]

Looks like a really nice beer. I would like to make it using S-04 ale yeast to see if that would make much of a difference. Thanks for sharing.👍

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Definitely would have a different profile but I'm sure it would still be tasty. English yeast is going to be a bit more fruity and possibly slightly less attenuative

[@beeroquoisnation]

That system you have is a kettle RIMS right? Was that a Hop Rod element you had in the kettle? Looks great.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

That's right, and yep that is the Hot Rod Heat Stick from brewhardware.com. Great tool for the brewhouse!

[@beeroquoisnation]

@@TheApartmentBrewer I wanted one for my first kettle that had no ports. I wondered how good they were. I have since bought a bigger Kettle RIMS. I would still probably get that element, and power it with the BrewCommander. Thanks for getting back to me buddy. Cheers.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Cheers!

[@beeroquoisnation]

Was the reason you had the temperature sensor at the autosparge because of a port shortage in the kettle, or is that for a dynamic I might be unaware of? Just curious as I am building another system for smaller batches.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

@@beeroquoisnation i had it there since it would be measuring the temperature of the wort re entering the mash, so that it adjusted off that value and kept the main mash at the right temp

[@blakefaulds]

Great brew! Wondering, how do you clean your plate chiller? I understand sanitizing by running it 10 mins left in the boil, but to clean it, do you circulate PBW or somethin similar through it after the brew?

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Good question! I will always back flush after every brew, but roughly every 2 to 3 brews I give my entire system a deep clean by recirculating a full volume of boiling PBW through the pump and the chiller. That does the trick in keeping everything clean

[@Aeway100]

By the balance of OG/IBU and the amount of hops it is essentially a West Coast IPA on the lower range, not really a Pale Ale, it looks pretty good, cheers!

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

The line between APA and IPA is a bit blurry and there is some overlap, but I think it's still an APA since there were only 6 oz in the boil and the hop is a low/medium alpha. Still was a very refreshing summer beer and not too heavy. Cheers!

[@matiascrosa8294]

Great video, I'm gonna try this recipe over the weekend. I have a question about the dry hopping though. In the video you mention that you were going to dry hop for the last 7 days, but in the recipe in the description you mention that you should dry hop for 3-5 days. Which of these do you recommend I do?

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

You should be fine with the smaller amount of time, sometimes you can get grassy flavors from too much contact time.

[@matiascrosa8294]

@@TheApartmentBrewer Thanks, I'll do that!

[@dprolfe]

Do you need to rehydrate the yeast?

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Good question, and the answer is not necessarily. I will say that every time I have rehydrated yeast, I have gotten cleaner and healthier fermentations, but technically its not really necessary.

[@dillonthrockmorton4515]

Do you use the stove top?

[@moorejl57]

Is that refractometer the Vee GEE BTX1? The Brix display looks exactly like mine and I really think its worth the extra cost.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

I'm not exactly sure since it was a Christmas gift, but I love mine too!

[@tobyhoch7014]

Do you not waste some of the ingredients if you add the hops in late additions greedy that generously? I guess I am in agreement with most of the recipe, except what difference does adding the hops at 0min do since that only contributes zero IBU on the calculator. According to my calculations, it says Total IBU: 56.94 but that assumes 100% Hop Utilization and pellet hops. Somebody somewhere said that you lose 10% of the extraction efficiency when using a hops spider compared to free floating, although that can sometimes block the filter if it was not whole hops.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

You do lose some hop extraction with the hop spider. Purpose of late hop additions is to increase flavor and aroma without adding additional bitterness

[@dennisschickling5759]

Nice Video. #STAYSAFE

[@BrentLangdon]

I guess it is a sign of the times when 8 oz of hops go into a "Pale Ale"! I am only throwing around 5 at my extra hoppy Pale Ales (and 8-9 at American IPAs). I have to admit that I cringe every time I see you clamp that piece of scrap wood to your kettle. Have you thought of rebuilding that?

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

The line between IPA and APA is definitely blurred, but according to the BJCP guidelines it can have moderate to high hop flavor. I think while 8 oz of hops may seem a lot, it really was only 6 plus a dry hop and a medium alpha hop as well. Still not as strong as some IPAs but some could see it as one as well I'm sure. I think eventually I'll upgrade from the wood but it's been working fine for a while. What makes you cringe about it?

[@joshbatten6407]

fuckin lovely

[@edgolrubronegro9485]

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[@roman9509]

Why the FG is so low?