Recipe Ideas

[robbo5253]

Hey all,

Just looking at my next few brews and what will be left over, I will have:
500g caramalt
250g med crystal
60g POR
55g Amarillo

Any suggestions on recipes? not fussed what style.

I had looked at doing

Coopers Pale Ale Tin
1kg LDME
500g caramalt
250g med crystal
30g POR - 30 mins
15g Amarillo 15 mins
15g Amarillo flameout

US-05


Let me know if this would be crap and if so what I should do.

Cheers

Robbo

 

[felten]

I'd ditch the real ale tin and replace with an unhopped one, put the POR up to 60 and that should give you around 30ibu depending on boil gravity and such. (play around with beersmith)

that actually sounds pretty tasty, like drsga with por and more crystal!

 

[Pennywise]

Robbo, IMHO that much crystal would be a bit over the top, although you do have hops to counter this, I'm not sure it would work, but that is just my opinion.
If I were doing this, I'd drop the caramalt and POR all together and that's it, done. Or, drop the med crystal & POR and use 200-300g caramalt and up the Amarillo hop additions to 20g each.
Of course if you take Felten's advice and have a play with BS and use un-hopped extract with your own bittering/flavour/aroma you'd be on a winner too.

 

[robbo5253]

Cheers for the ideas guys, but decided to go with the following and not use the crystal for now

JSGA
1.5kg Coopers Wheat Malt
2.2kg LDME
.25 Med Crystal steeped
30g POR - 60 mins
15g Amarillo - 15 mins
15g Amarillo - dry hopped
US56 Yeast

Cheers

Robbo