Coopers pale with amarillo

[beerdrinker]

Am onto my 3rd AG and would like a nice refreshing,easydrinking amarillo style ale. ingredients on hand are 8kg JW pale,0.5kg wheat malt,0.5kg carapils 50g crystal60. and the hops:100g amarillo,pearle,northernbrewer plus a bit of cascade. AGs arnt as hard as they sound,i recomend givin it a go

[Trough Lolly]

Looks like a good APA recipe there - are you using US-56 / Wyeast 1056 for the yeast?

With the ingredients you have, you can buy some pilsener malt and do a 50/50 batch with ale/pils malt and make a Golden Ale...

Cheers,
TL

[beerdrinker]

yeah im using US56 yeast, am thinking of a cpa cross lcpa for my third AG not sure of the hop additions? never tried the amarillo,sounds like a nice hop. does half a kilo of wheatmalt and half a kilo of carapils sound like too much? the beerfridge is almost free so id better get this recipe cracking

[beerdrinker]

recipe that wants tweaking 7kg pale malt 0.4kg carafoam 0.4kg wheatmalt 0.2kg crystal60 25g nthn brewer 60mins x grams amarillo 30 mins? 38g cascade 10mins 74g cascade 0mins what do you guys reckon about the amarillo addition? amount and times??? maybe wipe a bit of the cascade? cheers

[Ross]

Drop the carapils, not needed with the wheat in there. Mix an equal quantity of Amarillo & cascade together & use 30gms at 15mins 10mins 5 mins & flame out - my preference would be a similar quantity dry hopped in secondary as well. Use the NB at 60 mins to adjust the biterness to your desired level.

cheers Ross

[Trough Lolly]

Drop the carapils, not needed with the wheat in there. Mix an equal quantity of Amarillo & cascade together & use 30gms at 15mins 10mins 5 mins & flame out - my preference would be a similar quantity dry hopped in secondary as well. Use the NB at 60 mins to adjust the biterness to your desired level.

cheers Ross

Ditto!!

[beerdrinker]

Thanks,recipe sorted gonna brew it on the weekend with us56,going through an APA phase bottling my 2nd AG tomorrow cheers

[Ross]

Thanks,recipe sorted gonna brew it on the weekend with us56,going through an APA phase bottling my 2nd AG tomorrow cheers

So, what did you go with??

cheers Ross

[beerdrinker]

Am going with your suggestion Ross thinking around 30IBU and dropping the carapils,will attack beersmith tomorrow and try to post the specs thanks for the help

[beerdrinker]

am going with 7kg pale 0.4kg wheat 0.3kg crystal60 0.2kg carapils 25g nthn brewer 60mins 17ibu 15g amarillo 15mins 5.1ibu 15g cascade 15mins 3.3ibu 15g amarillo 10mins 3.7ibu 15g cascade 10mins 2.4ibu 15g amarillo 5mins 2ibu 15gcascade 5mins 1.3ibu 15gamarillo 0mins 15g cascade 0mins 30L batch size 65% efficiency bitterness 34.8ibu how does this sound? heaps of hop additions to keep me busy using us56 at 17C what mash temp and any other adjustments would make this a nicer beer? cheers

[Aussie Claret]

Sounds good, I'd aim for a mash temp around 67c for an hour; I'd also use Gypsum in the mash (to aid pH adjustment and for hop utilisation) and some Irish Moss (Whirlfloc or Koppafloc - all Irish moss derivatives) for the last 10minutes of the boil.

AC