"Sierra Nevada" Pale Ale--Extract Recipe

Ingredients for 5 Gallons

Malt Extract
	Light syrup: 7 lbs.
Specialty Malts
	Crystal, amber (40 L.): 0.75 1b.
	Dextrin malt, dry: 2 oz.
Bittering Hops
	Perle, whole: 2 oz.
Finishing Hops
	Cascade, whole: 3 oz.
Yeast
	American Ale, liquit (Wyeast 1056)
Clarifying Aids
	Irish moss: 1 tsp.
	Gelatin: 2 tsp.
Inorganics
	Ascorbic acid: 0.5 tsp.
Priming
	Corn sugar: 0.75 cup
Water
	3 gal. water to start boil
	2 gal. boiled and cooled water for start of fermentation
	0.5 gal. water for priming sugar
	

Directions

* Start the yeast a day or so ahead of time.
* Sanitize all equipment!  
  I used a 20-quart cheapo pot, a 5-gal. William's siphonless 
  plastic fermentation bucket, and a William's siphonless priming tank.
* Bring 3 gal. water to a boil.
* At the following times before the end of the boil, add the following:
*	90 min.:  malt extract and 1 oz. bittering hops
*	60 min.:  1 oz. bittering hops
*	30 min.:  1 oz. finishing hops
*	15 min.:  1 oz. finishing hops
*	 5 min.:  specialty malts and Irish moss
*	 0 min.:  1 oz. finishing hops and ascorbic acid
* Cool with wort chiller or just let it sit until cooled below 90 F.
* Sparge (pour in a splashy manner) and strain into fermentation bucket
* Pour in the previously boiled and cooled water to make 4.75 gal.
* When wort has cooled to below 80 F, cast yeast.  
* Remove a hydometer-tube-full of wort for specific gravity readings.
* Put airlocks on containers.
* Take daily specific gravity readings.
* After 3 to 5 days, drain to secondary fermenter.
* At that time, dissolve gelatin in a cup of hot water and stir in.
* When hydrometer readings don't change for 2 days, the 
  wort is ready for bottling.
* Dissolve priming sugar in 0.5 gal. boiled and cooled water.
  (This will bring the volume back up to about 5 gal.)
  Siphon or gently pour into priming tank.
* Drain wort into priming tank, leaving sediment behind.
* Bottle in sanitized bottles.
* Wait 2 weeks for carbonation.

Notes

OG = 1.053, FG = 1.018 
Alcohol = about 3.7% by volume, including the effect of dilution.

This one got better with age, but it didn't quite duplicate
Sierra Nevada's pale ale.  Next time I'll use more bittering and 
finishing hops, and even do some dry hopping.
Both Sierra Nevada Pale ale and Anchor Liberty Ale
reportedly use only Cascade hops.