Pale ale recipe

[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

[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.

[smiggins55]

Thanks for that Pete.I will try some of the palest crystal malt,would
200 grs be too much?

[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.

[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

[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?

[timmy]

Well it certainly will once the yeast starts eating the sugars.

[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.

[smarty]

Well its a good recipe you told here, will see if it works for me.