Colorado Strong Pale Ale

Early in May 2020 ... with all the Covid-19 Shelter-in-Place and Safer-at-Home directives, the small local businesses all struggled to stay in business.

Colorado craft breweries obviously were affected.

Left Hand's Brewing Foundation came up with a fund raising idea to try to help local breweries ... The Colorado Strong Fund.

Basically, they came up with a recipe and bought ingredients for breweries to brew it. Several of the local breweries I visit signed up.

Seeing this, I asked if I could get a homebrew recipe, and the answer was "yes". I made a donation to the fund, and they sent me the recipe.

The recipe they sent included locally produced malts, hops, and yeast.

Of course, I made a few minor modifications, but for the most part stayed as true to the recipe as I could.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to grab beers brewed by several of my local favorites to compare to my batch once it is done.

For more about this beer ... check out Sheppy's Blog: Colorado Strong

The homebrew recipe is available from the Left Hand Brewing Foundation Colorado Strong Fund.

You can make a small donation to the fund, and select that you want the recipe sent to you.

SheppyBrew's recipe basically follows the recipe with a minor modification of hops. 

OG: Right at planned 1.055

FG: 1.010

ABV: 5.9%

ADF: 81%