Hop Harvest

After months of watering, and waiting, my cascade hops were ready to harvest on August 29. The total yield was about 3.5 lbs before any drying. I used most of them in a wet-hopped pale ale.

Green Harvest Pale Ale

Grains:
14# US 2-Row
2# Vienna
1# Crystal 40ºL

Mash at 155ºF

Hops:
All weights are for wet, freshly harvested hops.

10 oz First Wort Hop
2 oz 90 min
5 oz 60 min
5 oz 45 min
5 oz 30 min
5 oz 15 min
5 oz 5 min
5 oz 1 min

Aerate chilled wort onto the yeast cake from the last batch of IPA, and pitch in a vial of California V. Rack to secondary after 2 weeks, age 2 weeks, then keg and dry hop with 2 oz dried whole cascade. This is currently in the cellar, waiting for an open tap handle.

Old Recipe #1

Big Red Ale

• 11.5# US 2-Row Malt
• 2.0# US Vienna Malt
• 1.5# Crystal 40ºL
• 1.0# Crystal 15ºL
• 0.5# Crystal 75ºL
• 0.75# Dark Chocolate Malt

Single infusion mash, 1 hour at 153ºF. Recirculate 1 gallon, then sparge at 165ºF. Collect 6.75 gallons, boil for 75 minutes.

75 minutes - 1 oz Galena (11.8% alpha)
15 minutes - 0.5 oz Cascade + Whirfloc tablet
10 minutes - 0.5 oz Palisade
1 minute - 0.5 oz Cascade
0 minute - 0.5 oz Palisade

Chill to 70ºF, pitch 1 vial of California Ale V into 5.5 gallons of aerated wort.

OG: 1.070
FG: 1.011

Rack to secondary after 10 days.

Dry hop with 1 oz Cascade and 1 oz Palisade.