Any suggestions for a summer ale

ScottB

I am thinking about brewing a beer for a music festival this summer (High Sierra Music Festival). It’s going to be in the mountains and it will be hot all day. I was thinking about a pale ale that is refreshing and that won’t have a bunch of residual sugars (to try and keep the hangovers to a minimum). The hops I have on hand are Cascade, Simcoe, Palisade, Glacier, Amarillo, and Centennial. Anyone have any suggestions for an extract recipe (w/ steeped grains)? Thanks!

Petedadink

light blond ales are alwase a crowd pleaser.sitting in the corner

bleachcola

Saison for the win.  Pick up a copy of Palmer and Zainasheff's Brewing Classic Styles.

HopRunner

Two Words - Sour Beer
As in Flanders Red or Oud Bruin or the chick friendly Berliner Weisse all are killer for summer, or winter or spring or fall.....

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PFC BN Army - Tactical Hop Command
Fermenting - Kolsch, Blonde Ale
Kegged: Flanders Brown
Aging: Brown Lambic, Chocolate Porter
President and Chief Bottle Washer - HopRunner Brewing
~Ross

Bellmer

With that lineup of hops, and wanting to please a lot of people, I'd say go with a restrained pale ale/blonde ale. As much as us craft brew lovers like our hops, most people don't unfortunately (we'll convert them eventually!)."Beer; so much more than a breakfast drink." -Homer
Bottled:   
Aging: Flanders Red
On Deck: Jeez I need to brew...

Fritz-Eye

How about a Gumball Head clone?
A nice wheat beer featuring WLP001 and Amarillo Hops.
You can probably find it on www.stoutguy.com
A quick and easy brew that goes down nice!Beer makes you smart, drinking is art.
www.fritzbrew.com
Corporal BN Amy

Mylo

Nah, fuck that.... Make Bugeater's Rye Cream Ale! Everybody loves this beer. Mine second attempt was even better than my first. So much so that I had to enter it in NHC. The rye, extra hops, and elevated OG pushes it out of the Cream Ale category - so I had to enter it in Cat 23. I gave the nod to Boog in the name - "Boog it 2 Me".

Mylo"Life is too short to bottle homebrew." - Me
"HEINEKEN? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!" - Dennis Hopper, in Blue Velvet

TapItGoodBDawg

2 lbs Light LME begining boil
6 lbs Light DME heat this with about a quart of distilled water in seperate pot and add at 15 mins left in boil.
1 lb Belgian Pale Malt
1/4 lb all the following
Honey Malt
British Crisp
Carapils
40 L
1 oz Centenial @ 60
.33 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo @ 20 & Flame out
Dry hop .5 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo 1 week into fermentation
Dry Hop Keg .25 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo
starter of WLP001Enjoy Great Beer!        

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San Diego Special OP's BN Army  

Come on, guys, he's asking for a light refreshing EXTRACT w/ grains batch and you ass hats are throwing AG, Sours, and huge Mini mashes at him (all of them good, i might add, but NOT what he's looking for)
6 lbs pale LME
1/2 lb pale DME
1/2 lb Crystal 30
1.5 oz Glacier at 60
0.5 oz Cascade at 15
0.5 oz Simcoe at 2
1 tsp Irish Moss or Whirlfloc at 15
Wyeast 1056/WLP001/SafAle US-05
Should end up at OG 1.048, around 25 IBUs, I'm guessing around SRM 7
HTH--B'Dawg
BJCP GM3 Judge & Mead
"Lunch Meat.  It's an acquired taste....."  -- Mylo

808brew

BDawg
I ran the numbers on your recipe and the IBU's come up pretty low.  How about adding some Cascade at 60 to bump it up.  
or
Bump the Pale extract
Your thoughts?808BREW
Sergeant BN Army, Pacific Division

BDawg

what is the alpha for the glacier?
I'm guessing around 4?
Here's what I get when i ran it through Promash.  (I actually bumped the glacier down to 1.25 oz to hit 25 ibu's)
Blonde Ale
A ProMash Recipe Report
BJCP Style and Style Guidelines
-------------------------------
06-B  Light Hybrid Beer, Blonde Ale
Min OG:  1.038   Max OG:  1.054
Min IBU:    15   Max IBU:    28
Min Clr: 2   Max Clr: 5  Color in SRM, Lovibond
Recipe Specifics
----------------
Batch Size (Gal):     5.25    Wort Size (Gal):    5.25
Total Grain (Lbs):    7.00
Anticipated OG:  1.047    Plato:     11.59
Anticipated SRM:   7.2
Anticipated IBU:  26.6
Brewhouse Efficiency:   68 %
Wort Boil Time:     60    Minutes
Pre-Boil Amounts
----------------
Evaporation Rate:   1.00    Gallons Per Hour
Pre-Boil Wort Size:    6.25    Gal
Pre-Boil Gravity:  1.039    SG  9.80  Plato

Grain/Extract/Sugar
   % Amount Name      Origin    Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
85.7 6.00 lbs. Briess LME- Gold      America    1.035  4
  7.1 0.50 lbs. Briess DME- Gold      America    1.046  8
  7.1 0.50 lbs. Crystal 30L       America    1.035 30
Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.

Hops
   Amount Name      Form    Alpha  IBU  Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1.25 oz.    Glacier       Pellet   4.00  23.5  60 min.
  0.50 oz.    Cascade       Pellet   5.00   3.1  15 min.
  0.50 oz.    Simcoe        Pellet  13.00   0.0  0 min.
(optional: dry hop with an oz of palisade or amarillo)
Yeast
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WYeast 1056 Amercan Ale/Chico-B'Dawg
BJCP GM3 Judge & Mead
"Lunch Meat.  It's an acquired taste....."  -- Mylo

808brew

Somehow I missed the Glacier at 60 which explains everything.  
Thanks for the feedback and the recipe.  I need to knock out a quick one and this looks like what I need.808BREW
Sergeant BN Army, Pacific Division

Petedadink

+1
A truly awesome beer.  I brewing it again this weekend."Mash, I made you my bitch!" -TastyI am thinking about brewing a beer for a music festival this summer (High Sierra Music Festival). It’s going to be in the mountains and it will be hot all day. I was thinking about a pale ale that is refreshing and that won’t have a bunch of residual sugars (to try and keep the hangovers to a minimum). The hops I have on hand are Cascade, Simcoe, Palisade, Glacier, Amarillo, and Centennial. Anyone have any suggestions for an extract recipe (w/ steeped grains)? Thanks!

bleachcola

light blond ales are alwase a crowd pleaser.sitting in the corner

HopRunner

Saison for the win.  Pick up a copy of Palmer and Zainasheff's Brewing Classic Styles.

Bellmer

Two Words - Sour Beer
As in Flanders Red or Oud Bruin or the chick friendly Berliner Weisse all are killer for summer, or winter or spring or fall.....


PFC BN Army - Tactical Hop Command
Fermenting - Kolsch, Blonde Ale
Kegged: Flanders Brown
Aging: Brown Lambic, Chocolate Porter
President and Chief Bottle Washer - HopRunner Brewing
~Ross

Fritz-Eye

With that lineup of hops, and wanting to please a lot of people, I'd say go with a restrained pale ale/blonde ale. As much as us craft brew lovers like our hops, most people don't unfortunately (we'll convert them eventually!)."Beer; so much more than a breakfast drink." -Homer
Bottled:   
Aging: Flanders Red
On Deck: Jeez I need to brew...

Mylo

How about a Gumball Head clone?
A nice wheat beer featuring WLP001 and Amarillo Hops.
You can probably find it on www.stoutguy.com
A quick and easy brew that goes down nice!Beer makes you smart, drinking is art.
www.fritzbrew.com
Corporal BN Amy

TapItGood

Nah, fuck that.... Make Bugeater's Rye Cream Ale! Everybody loves this beer. Mine second attempt was even better than my first. So much so that I had to enter it in NHC. The rye, extra hops, and elevated OG pushes it out of the Cream Ale category - so I had to enter it in Cat 23. I gave the nod to Boog in the name - "Boog it 2 Me".

Mylo"Life is too short to bottle homebrew." - Me
"HEINEKEN? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!" - Dennis Hopper, in Blue Velvet

bleachcola

2 lbs Light LME begining boil
6 lbs Light DME heat this with about a quart of distilled water in seperate pot and add at 15 mins left in boil.
1 lb Belgian Pale Malt
1/4 lb all the following
Honey Malt
British Crisp
Carapils
40 L
1 oz Centenial @ 60
.33 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo @ 20 & Flame out
Dry hop .5 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo 1 week into fermentation
Dry Hop Keg .25 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo
starter of WLP001Enjoy Great Beer!        


San Diego Special OP's BN Army