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OK so technically it's not a BJCP 'pale ale' I don't care. It'll pass as a Pale Ale to uninformed house guests.

I want a bright sparkly pale coloured bitter for Xmas and so have left out all specialty grains (to keep the colour light, also 66° mash), and used the ale hop variety I think is the lightest and brightest in flavour - for me anyway. I couldn't bring myself to make a small 15min hop addition as so many tried and tested printed recipes have, because a) I have the hops available and b) bigger is better right???

Ingredients
25L, 3hr mash from 66°C (not 90mins only because kids football is gonna get in the way), 90 min boil, efficiency 85%, Water profile Dry Pale Ale, alkalinity 25 CaCO3
Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.71 kg Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 100.00 %
65.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.40 %] (90 min) Hops 22.3 IBU
50.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.40 %] (15 min) Hops 7.9 IBU
60.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.40 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1 Pkgs British Ale (White Labs #WLP005) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.040 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 3.71 %
Bitterness: 30.2 IBU
Est Color: 7.2 EBC

Looks nice Si.

Have you used WLP005 (Ringwood) before? I've just made two beers with it. It needs a good sized starter and lot of rousing to get it to attenuate but it's a lovely yeast. Very fruity.

/Phil.

Looks like a pale Ale to me Si, and darned tasty too.

Phil: Not used WLP005 before, but am happy to rouse (I'm committed now). How often are we talking, daily? I put the vial into 1L of 1.030, fermented that out and pitched the slurry via a 'DFS' today.
P2: Thanks. Hope so.

I got 26L @ 1.040 so bang on OG but a litre extra . 85% brewhouse eff, and 88% by volume Down to treating my water I reckon, gone from 75%.

I think twice daily rousing is recommended. I went with once a day for about 5 days.

/Phil.

Blimey, I'll get right on it
May not consider WLP005 as my 'house' yeast now

It is a lazy little so and so WLP005, visibly settling out before its finished Rousing is taking place.

Stick with it. It'll be worth it

/Phil.

Two days in:

1.019 tonight.

Looks like it's slowing down.

The last one I brewed with this yeast (a few weeks ago) carried on dropping slowly for almost two weeks.

/Phil.

1.016 tonight, slowly but surely.

Looking good. I don't think mine came down that quickly.

/Phil.

Cheers for the support

1.015 tonight. The head has died down to about half a centimetre. Rousing AM and PM, when I don't forget.