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GrahamB8

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I want to make a nice hoppy pale ale in the American style with stock on hand

 

I have a can of Coopers liquid wheat, a can of Coopers pale ale, some crystal, choc, both light and dark dry malt extracts, 90g Cascade, 90g Amarillo, 90g POR, Brew cellar English and American ale yeasts.

 

Anyone hopheads suggest a recipe and schedule/temps from that lot, or is another trip to the LHBS needed?

 

Cheers [cool]

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1 Pale Ale Can

1kg LDM

300g Dextrose

200g Crystal (Light or medium)

10g Cascade @ 15

10g Amarillo @ 15

10g Cascade @ 10

10g Amarillo @ 10

20g Cascade Dry

 

US05 or other American Ale Yeast

 

1/ Crack your grain and steep in 1L of 65-70C water for 30 minutes.

 

2/ Remove grain and run another 1 liter 70-75C water through it.

 

3/ Add 500g LDM and bring up to 5L with water and boil for 20 minutes.

 

4/ Add 10g Cascade and 10g Amarillo after 5 minutes of boiling.

 

5/ Add 10g Cascade and 10g Amarillo after a further 5 minutes of boiling.

 

6/ When time has lapsed for boiling put all other ingredients in the pot and sit for a minute or so then into a water/ice bath to cool asap.

 

7/ Place in FV when under 25C fill to 23L with water and pitch yeast.

 

8/ add 20g Cascade after 48-72 hours.

 

8/ Ferment at 18C until FG is reached then leave for about 5 days. If you have a fridge then CC for 3 days after.

 

Bottle and wait 6 weeks

 

Enjoy!!

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Thanks Bill, I know this is a bread and butter style but I wasnt sure of if I was using the can of wheat in there, quantity of Crystal/Dex and hop quant/times.

 

With the dry hop, just open the FV and throw the pellets in whole or in a bag?

 

Cheers

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Even though the Wheat wouldn't hurt, I would leave it out and put it in something that would cry out for it more.

 

Yes, you can either put the hops in a bag or throw them straight in commando style. Personally I wrap them loosely in a new chux cloth. I argue that they clog up the bottler and can be a pita. Others say they throw them in naked with no problems. Entirely up to you mate.

 

cheers

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Cha-Ching! [biggrin]

This will definatly be my next batch. The SWMIMBO is requesting a berry/Hibiscus/Cider, so maybe she will be interested in this one..

I have 3 kits, so if not I guess we will start another one real soon!

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  • 3 weeks later...

This is ready to keg and went down as:

 

1 Pale Ale Can

1kg LDM

300g Dextrose

250g Crystal (Light or medium)

10g Cascade @ 15

10g Amarillo @ 15

10g Cascade @ 10

10g Amarillo @ 10

12.5g Cascade teabag @ flameout and into fermenter

20g Cascade Dry after 72 hours

 

OG - 1.045 FG - 1.010

Tastes and smells awesome out of the tube, will leave for 4 weeks before I devour it

 

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Ok 3 weeks before I started drinking it [innocent]

Great recipe Bill, decent bitterness and great malt balance, up front hops with a great orange and grapefruit flavour.

 

Highly recommended if your into American pales:

 

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I'm glad you like it Graham. It was just something I threw together with the ingredients you listed. I like Cascade and Amarillo.

 

An improvement on this would be to include some grain. I believe Yob has a you beaut recipe that includes 1kg grain and the Pale Ale can. So good in fact that not a lot of AG brewers believed it was a Kit.

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