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I just put a mid strength beer in the fermenting fridge, first mid strength since starting in 1990. Simple Coopers Pale Ale at 3.5%.
Looking forward to it-my palate`s getting a mite jaded of late.

How socially responsible of you ryan.

Not really-I`ll just drink twice as much

yeah, I've got a basic mid strength in secondary now. The theorty is that I can drink a lot of beer of Xmas without getting pissed. I used a can of Coopers Draught and 500g dry malt, mixed to 23l. Dry hopped with some Czech Saaz in secondary. Should be bottling on the weekend. When I racked it, I bottled one for a test and I might try it on the weekend, even though its onyl been 1 week, at least I'll know roughly what it'll be like.

ryan wrote:I just put a mid strength beer in the fermenting fridge, first mid strength since starting in 1990. Simple Coopers Pale Ale at 3.5%.
Looking forward to it-my palate`s getting a mite jaded of late.

uh oh- I think I see a problem coming up. Pitched a full{11.5g.} S-04 in a 15l. fermenter, left about 40 mill. headspace. Forgot the S-O4 is double the quantity of the Coopers yeast.
That`s you blokes fault, talking to me all the time, I couldn`t concentrate

Hope you have a good sponge handy. And one for the beer too.

reckon I should skim it if it plays up to much? Only skimmed once before, that led to only infected brew I`ve had

I read about that once in an old 'wine and beer making' book. They recommended skimming every day. Probably back in the days of open fermentation.

I too have a mid strength on.... my only problem was that i didn't want a mid strength the lady in the hbs said there was no reason to add any malt to the Black Rock Export Pils as it would be fine, I was skeptical and for good reason it seems. Anyone interested in a 3% pils

I have a mid strength pale ale on tap, good for those who are driving home

i'm about to make a midstrength myself, i was going do an extract, basically boonies LCPA but 1.5kg LDME, 200g crystal and 200g carapils to bulk it up, and use same flavour hopping schedule but drop bittering addition hops so the IBU's are down a bit maybe around 20,
thoughts?

midstrength hey, that'd be about 6% then?

i recall a thread once mentioning something about young fellas starting out and only making rocket fuel. alas, some dont grow out of it.

Don`t know about anyone elses, mines 3.5%.

sorry if the post was misleading. That was an extract with

1.5kg LLME
200g carapils
200g crystal
10g chinook 12.4% AA 60 mins
10g cascade 4.5% AA 15 mins
10g cascade 4.5% AA 5 mins
american ale yeast
in 23 L

should come out around 3% alc and around 19 IBU's, its designed around boonies LCPA but obviously with a few changes

collapoo, it will be interesting to see how that one goes.

Let us know how it tastes. Hopefully the grain will give it a bit of Oomph in the malty dept. I think the hops would be OK IMO, just dunno how balanced. Having said that, the LCPA is a smack in the face hoppy beer .

It could almost be heading in the Little Creatures "Rogers" beer category.

I sledged the Rogers....once, but after drinking some other "Light" beers of late, even on tap, Rogers wins hands down.

Cheers

Boonie

i'll let you know how it comes out, But thats probably at least 6 weeks away!

collapoo wrote:i'll let you know how it comes out, But thats probably at least 6 weeks away!

I've just purchased the ingredients. I may go 250g of each grain.

Did you taste out of Keg? I mean do a Gravity reading and happen to sip the sample

How balanced/ Malty / Hoppy...was it?

I may adjust slightly with extra grain/hops either way.

Cheers

Boonie

I'm drinking a tasteless mid strength wheat at the moment
Shithouse efficiency and lack of hops

I am drinking my mid strength at the moment,...........well not at this very moment but you kbnow what I mean. I like a bitter beer and generally make coopers origional bitter with BE2, but this one is one can of coopers origional bitter, one can of coopers origional draught and a kilo of dry malt. 45l and both yeasts. I don't use a hydrometer so I don't know what alc. it is, but I know it is lighter than normal but still has a decent flavour, body and head.