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I have a tin of Coopers Real Ale lying around and I don't know what to do with it. I want to end up with a beer that has a nice hop flavour. Anyone got any good ideas.

P.S. No bloody BE1 or BE2

I did a nice one a while back with a can of Coopers pale malt, 40g amarillo for 20mins, and 20 cascade dry hopped.

And probably some crystal- say 200g or so.

I did a Mountain Goat Hightail clone with a tin of that and it turned out fantastic.

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... e76c8fb942

If I did it again I'd probably swap to Cascade for flavour/aroma and use some US-05 yeast.

Oh, and the one that I did used a Coopers re-cultured yeast.

Sorry to use the F word for the first time in a long while, but perhaps some Fuggles would be good in it. Fuggles are traditionally used in English ales.

Oliver

With all the cascade and amarillo in mine, it very quickly turned into an APA. With "F" and "G" (goldings) you will get a nice amberish ale. Or add lots of hops and get an IPA.

Chris wrote:With "F" and "G" (goldings) you will get a nice amberish ale.

I had no idea they affected colour

tin of real ale
coopers light malt liquid
20g of perle @ 20 minutes
20g perle @ flmeout
safale us-56
boiled for 30 minutes

when i racked iit it tasted like IPA

but after another week as told from this forum,

had a nice bitter to smooth almost velvety berry

am waiting to taste it out of bottles

another few weeks and ill let you know

b

Very funny.

Chris wrote: Very funny.

Yeah.

I probably would have described the differences as English Ale - American Ale. But thats just me

I thought that was suggested- not that it really matters.

You two never stop Chris and chris.

Always good for a laugh

Real Ale, I did a 1 kg of LDM with 20g Saaz 15 Mins Boiled/Steeped with malt.

Nice IMO, mind you this was early in the piece, so anything with hops was exceptional

Cheers

Boonie