Nizmoose
Well-Known Member
Okay tonight I finally decided on an Amber Ale with a few weird components to it. Firstly I have a bunch of Galaxy pellets lying around so I decided instead of buying Amarillo which was in my original recipe I'd just use galaxy. Secondly I wanted to use Coopers Amber LME in this recipe but there was no way I was paying 15 dollars shipping for one or two cans so I decided to hop onto the spreadsheet and see if I could replicate it in both colour and gravity. Turns out after not much time of fiddling I got to 1.2kg of LDME and 150g of CaraAroma which will replicate the colour of Amber LME and has 0.001 difference in OG and no difference in FG. So My recipe ended up as this:
Batch Volume: 21L
Boil Volume: 6L
- 1 x Coopers Pale Ale tin (1.7kg) - used instead of a bittering hop addition
- 500g Wheat DME
- 1.2kg LDME
- 150g CaraAroma
- 400g Light Crystal 60L
- 15g Galaxy @ 20 mins
- 15g Galaxy @ 10 mins
- US05 yeast
IBU: 36.6 | OG/FG: 1060/1015 | EBC: 24.6 | alc: 6.2%
Now a few questions, I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to think I am using too much crystal, it was mainly for colour so should I drop the crystal by 150g-200g and just add 50g CaraAroma? I imagine the crystal is contributing to my fairly high alc content? Also is this IBU about right for an amber? Im not a massive bitterness fan so I do get slightly concerned when I see IBU's above 30, makes me also wonder about ditching the kit can for more LDME or Wheat DME and doing a galaxy bittering addition? Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Batch Volume: 21L
Boil Volume: 6L
- 1 x Coopers Pale Ale tin (1.7kg) - used instead of a bittering hop addition
- 500g Wheat DME
- 1.2kg LDME
- 150g CaraAroma
- 400g Light Crystal 60L
- 15g Galaxy @ 20 mins
- 15g Galaxy @ 10 mins
- US05 yeast
IBU: 36.6 | OG/FG: 1060/1015 | EBC: 24.6 | alc: 6.2%
Now a few questions, I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to think I am using too much crystal, it was mainly for colour so should I drop the crystal by 150g-200g and just add 50g CaraAroma? I imagine the crystal is contributing to my fairly high alc content? Also is this IBU about right for an amber? Im not a massive bitterness fan so I do get slightly concerned when I see IBU's above 30, makes me also wonder about ditching the kit can for more LDME or Wheat DME and doing a galaxy bittering addition? Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated!