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Beer Style: American Pale Ale, Classic English Pale Ale
Recipe Type: partial mash
Yield: 5 gallons
Description:
Blonde Annie’s is a bright, easy-drinking gluten-free pale ale that highlights how simple ingredient choices can produce a clean, flavorful beer. Roasted gluten-free pale oat malt provide a soft, lightly toasted backbone, while layered honey additions build fermentability, subtle floral sweetness, and a smooth finish. Sorghum syrup supplies the primary fermentable base, keeping the beer light and approachable, and classic Cascade hops deliver fresh citrus and floral character, enhanced by a late Amarillo dry hop for added aroma. This recipe is ideal for gluten-free brewers seeking a refreshing, hop-accented pale ale with balance, drinkability, and craft complexity.
Ingredients:
- Grain Bill ---------------------------------------
- 2 cups Pale Oat Malt (recommended: roast at 350F for 30 min)
- Fermentable Bill ---------------------------------------
- 6 lbs Light Sorghum
- 2 lbs Honey
- Hop Bill Summary ---------------------------------------
- 2 oz Cascade Hops
- 0.5 oz Amarillo Hops
- Other Ingredients ---------------------------------------
- 1 cup Maltodextrin
- 1 pkg Safale US-05 dry yeast
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 14 days at 68 degreesBeer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.054Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol by Vol: 5.5%
Color SRM: 7.2
Bitterness IBU: 25.0
Recipe Type: partial mash
Yield: 5.0 Gallons
Procedure:
Steep milled malt along with amylase enzyme in 2 gallons of water at 163.4F for 30 - 45 minutes. Use the appropriate amount of rice hulls to ensure circulation and filtration. Sparge malt with 170F water until water runs clear. Top kettle up to 6.5 gallon pre-boil size. Bring to boil.
Remove from heat and add sorghum syrup (this prevents scorching the syrup), return to boil allow to achieve hot break.
1 cup Maltodextrin (60 min)
1 oz Cascade Hops (60 min)
1.5 lbs Honey (45 min; careful not to scorch)
0.75 lbs Honey (15 min; careful not to scorch)
1 oz Cascade Hops (2 min)
1 pkg Safale US-05 dry yeast
Dry Hopping:
0.5 oz Amarillo Hops
Recipe Note: This recipe was most likely developed between 2010-2014 before buckwheat, millet and rice malt was widely available. Therefore, it utilizes many gluten-free ingredients readily found at a LHBS or grocery store.