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Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 08, 2009 3:33 pm
by smiggins55
Goes like this
1 can of coopers pale ale
1 kg ldme
25 gr goldings boil 20mins
10 gr goldings boil 5 mins
nottingham yeast
I would like to use some grain for steeping but i'm unsure of what i could use so any help
would be appreciated
Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 08, 2009 3:41 pm
by FazerPete
That looks like a good recipe although I'd probably double the last hop addition but that depends on your tastes.
You could use some crystal for colour and a slight caramel flavour. You could also use Carapils or Carafoam to give a little bit of sweetness and improve the head retention without adding colour.
Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 08, 2009 3:57 pm
by smiggins55
Thanks for that Pete.I will try some of the palest crystal malt,would
200 grs be too much?
Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 08, 2009 4:10 pm
by Lachy
200g of crystal should be fine. 100g will make a nice golden colour, 200g gives it more of an amber tint.
From the recipe, I'd say it should be a nice beer.

Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 08, 2009 5:55 pm
by timmy
Looks nice. I've been contemplating doing a similar brew for a while now to try and replicate the Bintara Pale Ale. 200g of crystal would be my choice on this one.
Cheers,
Tim
Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 15, 2009 8:21 am
by smiggins55
Yesterday i put down the brew as per above but added 150 grs of light crystal malt
steeped for 25 mins and after taking the sg i tasted it and it was quite sweet.Will
this sweetness settle down overtime?
Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 15, 2009 10:11 am
by timmy
Well it certainly will once the yeast starts eating the sugars.
Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Thursday Jan 15, 2009 12:27 pm
by warra48
Yeast eats the sugars in your wort, and converts them to alcohol.
If it didn't have the sweetness before fermentation, you'd have something like barley water, but you wouldn't make beer, and you wouldn't get alcohol.
The whole brewing process is to extract the sugars from malted barley and wheat, and to convert that to alcohol.
Re: Pale ale recipe
Posted: Friday Feb 13, 2009 8:50 pm
by smarty
Well its a good recipe you told here, will see if it works for me.