Looking For A Recipe For Coopers Pale Ale

[colonel]

G'day all.

I've just read a great article by Enerjex (http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?autocom=ineo&showarticle=40)
on harvesting Coopers Yeast.

I'm wondering if anyone has a K&K recipe for Pale Ale using said yeast?

There's probably one here somewhere, so I'll keep looking.

Cheers

 

[Bribie G]

If you use a can of Coopers "Thomas Coopers Selection" Australian Bitter, a can of Morgans Wheat Malt Extract (which is not all wheat, just partly) and boil some of the extract in a couple of litres of water with 15g of Pride of Ringwood pellets for 20 mins, you should just about be there. If you want it a bit stronger, slip in 300g dextrose.

Ferment using the recultured yeast at below 20 degrees. :super:

 

[rich_lamb]

Can make one up on the spot, it's a pretty simple beer:

1 can of some Coopers Pale ale type kit (what are these, about 1.8kg?)
1kg of light DME

Usual technique - eg. dissolve the malt in 8lt of really hot water and add cool water to the batch size of 19L
When you're happy it's about 19-20 degC chuck in your cultured yeast (after pouring off most of the beer from the top).

(Option) after it's been fermenting a week make a tea from 25g of pretty much any hops you like, Pride of Ringwood maybe, and strain into fermentor, allow to finish for up to another week before bottling.

This would prolly be an SG of about 1.048, going for the Pale Ale. If you wanted sparkling ale make it a bit bigger.

 

[colonel]

Thanks, I'll have a look for those ingredients at a hbs.

I've been brewing for years, but usually put a kit and a kilo in the tub, come back a week or 10 days later and bottle it, then come back a couple of months later and drink it.

I'll have to do some more research into ingredients, and how to use them.

For example, when you say "boil", do you mean just that, boil it up in a saucepan for the required time, then throw it in the brew before pitching yeast?

Do you have to strain the hops out first?

When recipe's say boil something for 5 mins, and something else for 10 mins, etc. does it mean use the same pot, just time each addition?

Sorry for the dumb questions.


I'll have to try and find an article, or thread that explains processes in detail.

Cheers

If you use a can of Coopers "Thomas Coopers Selection" Australian Bitter, a can of Morgans Wheat Malt Extract (which is not all wheat, just partly) and boil some of the extract in a couple of litres of water with 15g of Pride of Ringwood pellets for 20 mins, you should just about be there. If you want it a bit stronger, slip in 300g dextrose.

Ferment using the recultured yeast at below 20 degrees. :super:

 

[colonel]

Good stuff, thanks!

The "tea" idea sounds good, just boil and use something like a coffee plunger to strain?

Can make one up on the spot, it's a pretty simple beer:

1 can of some Coopers Pale ale type kit (what are these, about 1.8kg?)
1kg of light DME

Usual technique - eg. dissolve the malt in 8lt of really hot water and add cool water to the batch size of 19L
When you're happy it's about 19-20 degC chuck in your cultured yeast (after pouring off most of the beer from the top).

(Option) after it's been fermenting a week make a tea from 25g of pretty much any hops you like, Pride of Ringwood maybe, and strain into fermentor, allow to finish for up to another week before bottling.

This would prolly be an SG of about 1.048, going for the Pale Ale. If you wanted sparkling ale make it a bit bigger.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Just use the Coopers Pale Ale kit with brew enhancer 2...

You wont get any closer to Pale Ale , other than going AG

 

[manticle]

Just use the Coopers Pale Ale kit with brew enhancer 2...

You wont get any closer to Pale Ale , other than going AG

Using recultured coopers yeast would help as suggested. That's the main contributor to flavour in both commercial varieties and AndrewQLD's clone recipe (which is damn close)

A kit version of this would be close to the one suggested by bribie. You'd want to be careful with too much late Pride of ringwood - while the PoR flavour is distinct, it is also subtle.



@Colonel - if you want to know about boils (not pus filled ones), there is plenty of info out there.

Start here: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/index.html

Your kit is prehopped so you need to take that into account. There is bittering already there whereas with extract you provide it all.

 

[colonel]

Thanks for the replies folks.

Great link, Manticle, lots of good stuff to digest there.
Certainly makes me want to go a bit beyond kit and kilo.

Cheers

Using recultured coopers yeast would help as suggested. That's the main contributor to flavour in both commercial varieties and AndrewQLD's clone recipe (which is damn close)

A kit version of this would be close to the one suggested by bribie. You'd want to be careful with too much late Pride of ringwood - while the PoR flavour is distinct, it is also subtle.



@Colonel - if you want to know about boils (not pus filled ones), there is plenty of info out there.

Start here: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/index.html

Your kit is prehopped so you need to take that into account. There is bittering already there whereas with extract you provide it all.

 

[Tanga]

Bwahaha! Welcome to the darkside. I've only just joined and I'm hooked (malt instead of brew enhancer, and good yeasts make soooo much difference). I can't wait to get back to the city so I can experiment more. It's really fun - you'll love it.

Just a tip with the hops, if you use flowers put them in a hop sock (or a clean, sanitised stocking) because getting loose flowers out of your wort is a PITA! And kind of unsuccessful *eyes the floaties in her fermenter*.

 

[colonel]

OK, will do. Ta

 

[Nick JD]

OK, will do. Ta

You could always give this a try. Cheaper than kit and kilo. The recipe is Coopers PA ... if you use CPA bottle recultured yeast.

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=44264