Brew Day: Simple Pale Ale

Over the past few days, I've been writing a few recipes but haven't got to brewing them due to firstly, the lack of time and secondly, lack of grains. Yes, I have nearly exhausted my grains and I am yet to order them.

While I was going through the little grains I had, I noticed that I had some light malt extract. Although brewing with malt extract is easy, I do have a certain reluctance to use malt extract because the 45 minute boil will always caramelize the extract to a deep reddish hue and also because the taste of a beer made with malt extract is very recognizable. Having dissed about malt extract, it is still the easiest to make beer with. The following is an extremely simple extract recipe with an intent to split the beer into two batches.

Simple Pale Ale

Specifics

Batch size (litres): 10 litres
Type: Extract

IBU: 23

SRM: 23

OG: 1.058

Grains and Sugars

1.5 kg light malt extract

Hops

5 grams Columbus @ 45 min.

Yeast

Fermentis S-04 Ale Yeast

Schedules

Boiled 500 grams of malt extract for 45 minutes
Late addition of 1 kg malt extract at flame out

Notes:
- I plan to split this beer into 2 equal batches: one with fresh mango since its the mango season now so that I can have a mango ale and dry hop the other batch with Citra and Cascade for about 3 days.