cascade pale ale

This was beer #3 in a series of late summer beers, brewed using the US-05 yeast cake from the Nelson and Golden Hop/Idaho 7 beers. This beer turned out great. Excellent balance between malt sweetness and citrusy flavor and bitterness. As with the previous beers, this beer also was made with some old ingredients, including two pounds of Avangard pale malt that I've had since 2015 when I bought a 55-pound bag (uncrushed). The leaf cascade hops are from the 2017 crop. I obtained them from the 2018 AB hop giveaway in St. Louis. They were vacuumed sealed this whole time and no worse for wear. Still great citrus/grapefruit flavor. And no stale flavors from the old malt. 

Recipe:

5 gallons

US-05

7 lbs 2-row

2 lbs Avangard pale ale

.5 lb Crystal 60 

.5 oz 8.9 AA Cascade 60 minutes

.5 oz 30 minutes

1 oz 5 minutes

1 oz 1 minute