My father is coming to town this week, we will be brewing together.  I ran out of my pale ale and rye IPA a few weeks ago so we are going to brew  something to replace them.  I am using Yooper’s house pale ale recipe from HBT.  I am going to adjust the gravity and bitterness to somewhere between American pale ale and  India pale ale.  I am also going to use this as a yeast experiment.  Half the batch will get US-05 dry yeast and half will get White Labs WLP001 California ale yeast.  This will confirm my thought of sticking to dry yeast for generic strains and using liquid only if necessary.  Why deal with the hassle of starters if it does not improve my beer.

IPAish style with British and Germain grain bill and American hops and yeast.

Using 90% efficiency – OG 1.060 / FG 1.014 / IBU 51.5 / SRM 9.1 / ABV 6%

9# (45%) Maris Otter Malt
5# 6oz (27%) Germain Vienna Malt
3# 8oz (18%) Germain Munich Malt
1# (5%) Crystal 60°
1# (5%) Crystal 20°
First wort hops – 2oz Cascade (7.1% AA)
30 minute hops – 1.5oz Cascade
10 minute hops  – 2oz Cascade
5 minute  hops – 1oz Cascade
0 minute hops – 1oz Cascade
Dry hops – 2oz Cascade 7 days
2 Packs of US-05 dry yeast rehydrated in one carboy
1.3L starter of WLP-001 in the other carboy

Batch size – 12 Gallons
Water profile – Ca=110, Mg=18, Na=16, Cl=50, S04=275, HCO=70
Mash – 1.25qt/lb – 60 minutes @ 154°
Boil time – 60 minute