RecipeDB - Little Creatures Bright Ale Clone

[Tony]

I said it before and will say it again....... its a great base to play with!

I did a lot of tweaking early on but the base malt bill is my favorite.

I am always happy when i see brewers seeing a recipe, and expanding on it to suit a style of beer they want......... that's what its all about!

try it with chech Saaz and EKG

 

[Tony]

I was going to brew a Kolsch tomorrow, and have some very healthy yeast ready........ but i feel like this beer now.

I also have fresh B Saaz and NZ Cascade flowers on hand.

I think i will make it and ferment with the Kolsch yeast cool to keep it cleanish. I think a touch of apple and pear will make this one interesting

cheers

 

[Lodan]

Putting this down today! Long weekends are great

 

[breakbeer]

Brewed this as my very first (& 2nd) AG brew & it was the best beer I've ever tasted. Gonna keep brewing this recipe until I'm used to my new system & processes

 

[Morebeer4me]

Plan on cracking open the first bottle of this brew during the NRL Final. This is the second batch, first batch was fantastic

 

[Adam Howard]

When I first made this beer it turned out to be easily the best beer I'd made. The entire keg lasted 6 days. I was doing a course that week, came home later on the Wednesday night to 'test' the carbonation, ended up drinking four pints standing at the fridge!

Itching to make it again with summer on the way. I have a feeling it'll be very popular with everyone I know.

 

[paulmclaren11]

It has been suggested this beer would be a good candidate to make as a mid strength style, leaving the hopping levels the same (or even upping them).

Has anyone done this and what mash temp would you recommend?

I am thinking of making my next batch to about 3.8% as an easy summer session beer.

 

[breakbeer]

I brewed this as a mid strength, but it was completely by accident
Was the first time I'd used Beersmith & messed up the initial volume, 4 litres more water than there should've been
Haven't done the calculations yet but I'm guessing it'll be mid strength

 

[pk.sax]

Actually, errr. I made that once. Brewed as normal, albeit step mashed. Very short protein rest, then 62 for 15 min and rest 68 for 45 min.
What ended up was I sparged it until the gravity ou of kettle fell to about 1012 and didn't realise that I'd gone way over volume. Still, chalking it to experience I hopped it to the volume in the keg, allowing an extra hour's hard boil for the final volume. Chilled in the pool, it was down to 30 in an hour.
One of the nicest easy drinking beers I ever made. I ended up with a keg an a half instead of one keg. It's the hops that shine in there, floral.
In hindsight, I'd add a little nutrient to the fermenter or kettle if doing it this light again. Also D rest with going light on this.

 

[Hammer]

I have this Brew in the fermenter now. When is the best to.dry hop? I'm planning to rack to cc after fermentation is complete.

So the DB says, 7 days primary, 7 days secondary. im assuming ferment in primary at say 18C, then secondary is crash chill for a week.

Are you suggesting dry hop after approx 5 days while still in primary? OR would you move to secondary and dry hop then? I read somewhere dry hopping in the secondary was better as you dont lose the hop oils in the yeast

 

[Malted]

I have recently made 6 batches based on this recipe. 2 batches I subbed the carapils for caramunich 2, 4 batches I have used caramunich 1. In all cases I have subbed Amarillo for the B Saaz. Upped the OG to 1.052 for 4 batches and 1.048 for 2 batches. Noice beer.

 

[Phoney]

I've also subbed the carapils for caraaroma. Turned out a nice copper colour and with a nutty flavour. Delicious.

 

[Camo1234]

Just after some opinions on which yeast to use for which brew... I have a cube of this and also a cube of Tony's Monteiths Original ready to go and have two starters ready... one is 1272 and the other is Ringwood...... I am thinking the 1272 for the LCBA and the Ringwood for the Montieths Original.....

Thoughts?

I do also have another cube of the LCBA so could maybe do a side by side wth the two different yeasts... Although the brews didn't end the same with one siting at 1.048 and the other at 1.038!

 

[Tony]

Do em both with 1272...... save the ringwood for a Mild or a Bitter.

 

[Camo1234]

Do em both with 1272...... save the ringwood for a Mild or a Bitter.

Would the ringwood be terrible in one of them? I was down to two tubes of yeast so built a starter out of both of these so have two starters ready to pitch, 1 of each yeast.... I am away for a few days from tomorrow so was going to pitch them tomorrow morning but if the ringwood won't be any good I can pitch the split the 1272 and build it further and pitch at the end of the week and keep the ringwood for a few weeks till I can brew a mild or just pitch and see what the result is!

 

[Tony]

use the ringwood in the montheiths, it will be fine.

It certainly wont be horrible.

1272 is best used in the LCBA

cheers

 

[citizensnips]

would using some us-05 take away from this beer at all? I couldn't really see how it could but still just interested too see if there are any opinions or thoughts

 

[krausenhaus]

would using some us-05 take away from this beer at all? I couldn't really see how it could but still just interested too see if there are any opinions or thoughts

I did it with US-05 and it was ******* tops.

 

[paulmclaren11]

Just carbing up my second batch of this beer, the first was a belter.

Made this more of a session beer at about 3.8% and early tastes are great!

Nice hop flavour (dry hopped this one in addition to the flame out), smooth and light with nice malty finish - not watery like I was a thinking it might be.

Will be a ripper on a hot day.

Cheers again Tony.

 

[scottc1178]

I did this as my first AG brew.
just having my first glass now.
it was a screaming success.
it tastes virtually identical to LCBA.
Tony you're a king among men.

 

[citizensnips]

Yeah I've just tasted mine out of the fermenter and it was pretty much dead on to a lcba, good enough to drink then and there!
Cheers tony

 

[peterl1981]

anyone have this recipe in beersmith file?

 

[nathanvonbeerenstein]

hey all, anyone got an ideal water profile for this ripper? using melbourne water and beersmith for the adittion calc's

 

[pk.sax]

Should be fine as is.
if anything, add a little.CaCl for a small calcium boost and showcase the malt character.

 

[Bradbel]

Hi guys and Tony,

I'm new to brewing and have just moved from malt extract to partial.
Can anyone point out Tony's original LCBA recipe for me please.

 

[seamad]

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/recipe/301-little-creatures-bright-ale-clone/

 

[Bradbel]

Many thanks!

 

[Denobrew]

Ho guys. I'm brewing this tomorrow for the second time and was wondering if anyone has used Cascade and Citra in this recipe? I'm sticking to the original recipe, I thought I'd mix it up a bit as I have heaps of citra. Any feedback would be welcomed. I also have heaps of Amarillo so I'm open to changing the Cascade to Amarillo?

 

[tj2204]

Ho guys. I'm brewing this tomorrow for the second time and was wondering if anyone has used Cascade and Citra in this recipe? I'm sticking to the original recipe, I thought I'd mix it up a bit as I have heaps of citra. Any feedback would be welcomed. I also have heaps of Amarillo so I'm open to changing the Cascade to Amarillo?

What hop schedule did you end up going with?

 

[Denobrew]

I went like this for a total of 28 IBU's


22.36 g

Cascade [7.00 %] - Boil 45.0 min

Hop

5

6.1 IBUs

10.37 g

Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 45.0 min

Hop

6

4.8 IBUs

30.03 g

Cascade [7.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min

Hop

7

5.4 IBUs

17.66 g

Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min

Hop

8

5.4 IBUs

0.89 Items

Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins)

Fining

9

-

Steeped Hops

Amt

Name

Type

#

%/IBU

46.00 g

Cascade [7.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10.0 min

Hop

10

2.5 IBUs

43.32 g

Citra [12.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10.0 min

Hop

11

4.0 IBUs

A bit higher than I was aiming for. I'm still trying to figure out zero minute additions in BS and I adjusted the recipe to 'steep/whirlpool 10 min' after it was done. I cubed 23 liters and ended up with 42 liters in the fermenter. It was my first brew using my new system, which turns out the 80 liter pot I was sold is only 70 liters, so my numbers are all over the place.