RecipeDB - Little Fella's Pale Ale

[MarkBastard]

I had a few pints of LCPA on Saturday on tap. First time I'd had it fresh on tap for a while (fresh as in QLD not fresh from the source).

It's remarkably the same as LFPA except LCPA has a lot less late florally aroma. The sort of harsh but good bitterness and malt is absolutely spot on.

 

[jakethedog]

Brewed this on Saturday for the first time. Keen to see how it comes out. A big blow fly wanted the first taste. Went for a fly around in the FV during the transfer from kettle. Gave me an idea of attaching the transfer tube from the plate chiller to the FV tap thereby maintaining a relatively closed system. It won't aerate the wort much though, so maybe drill a hole in the top of FV to stick the tranfer tube in? Or just keep on with current practice - no infections yet with AG brewing.

 

[Fodder]

Just a quick question with this one.

They didnt have any US-05 at the LHBS, but I've got S-04 and Nottingham in the fridge.

Which yeast would you use if in my position?

Many thanks!

 

[jbowers]

I'd wait for the us-05, or order some. Nottingham will work, but it won't taste the same. It is relatively clean for an English yeast, which is why I say it will 'work'.

 

[argon]

Decided on a whim to brew some more of this. Simplified things a bit on the hopping front, cause i'm pretty lazy.

1050og

74% Ale
10% Munich
10% Wheat
5% Carapils
1% Acidulated

4 EKG plugs at 60
50 grams each of Chinook and Casade @ 10 and 0 then dry hopped

Easy peasy

 

[bcp]

Decided on a whim to brew some more of this. Simplified things a bit on the hopping front, cause i'm pretty lazy.

1050og

74% Ale
10% Munich
10% Wheat
5% Carapils
1% Acidulated

4 EKG plugs at 60
50 grams each of Chinook and Casade @ 10 and 0 then dry hopped

Easy peasy

Ok, you've dropped back the carapils and added a little acidulated. Reasons?

I've been adding some cluster, which gives a blackberry edge, but i've not tried anyone else's to compare.

 

[argon]

Ok, you've dropped back the carapils and added a little acidulated. Reasons?

I've been adding some cluster, which gives a blackberry edge, but i've not tried anyone else's to compare.

The amount of times i've done this beer, i've always wanted it to be dryer, tarter and lighter in colour. The latest one is drinking really well but still getting a touch of sweetness. I think the balance of wheat is about right now. The acidulated is just about dropping the mash ph for my water, i don't think it has had a flavour implication.

Never thought about any blackberry in LCPA to be honest.

 

[Hammo7]

Hey Guys.
I am looking at doing this in the next couple of weeks.
I don't really want to buy any malt, as I have heaps. Have just run out of Ale malt, so plan on using the following grain bill:

37% Maris Otter
37% Pils
10% Munich
10% Wheat
6% Carapils

Is there any reason for me to not do this?

Thanks,
Hammo.

 

[spox]

Decided on a whim to brew some more of this. Simplified things a bit on the hopping front, cause i'm pretty lazy.

1050og

74% Ale
10% Munich
10% Wheat
5% Carapils
1% Acidulated

4 EKG plugs at 60
50 grams each of Chinook and Casade @ 10 and 0 then dry hopped

Easy peasy

How'd this lazy version turn out?

 

[argon]

How'd this lazy version turn out?

Yeah pretty happy with it. Very easy drinker. Still a touch sweet, so will drop the mash temp a point and ensure I get full attenuation.

 

[hendos]

When is the best time to dry hop for this recipe?

 

[Hammer]

Was there any guide for the amount of time to let the beer condition in the keg before it hits its peak? ie bitterness dies back a little etc

 

[Nossil]

^I too would like to know!

I've had mine in the keg and in the fridge for around 3 weeks now, tried it a few days ago and the bitterness still slapped me in the face!

Here's to hoping 1 more week it will be magic!

 

[Logman]

I leave it for 2 months - best brew I've done was 6 months but I didn't adjust for no chill on that one. It was amazing how much it changed from the 4 month mark - was the best AG I've done. Might need a bit more patients lads

 

[Lecterfan]

Also one of my favourites...are you really waiting for bitterness to 'die back' or is the chinook just too much for you? I can imagine if it was in a chilled keg then it might take longer to calm down, but I generally hook into this (I only keg approx %30 of my beers) reasonably early as I love the face shredding resin of chinook. You can substitute it out or drop it back and still make an awesome beer though obviously.

 

[Hammer]

wow wasnt expecting 2 months to be a suggestion!

ill give it some consideration. i was thinking of fermenting, crash chilling, kegging and conditioning it out of the fridge for a bit.

 

[Beertard]

I've just ordered the grain to make this next saturday, I may make it a little less bitter though.

 

[hwall95]

I brewed up an extract version of this 3 and half weeks ago (A week in the bottle so far) and it tastes great, nice malt and hops balance. Haven't had a chance to compare it to LCPA yet, but from memory it has at least similar hop flavour and body.

3kg LDME
0.3kg Wheat DME
200g of Crystal - 141 EBC
US-05 Yeast
17g of Fuggle at 60 min (Replacement instead of EKG)
10g of Cascade and Chinook at 20 min
20g of Chinook, 25g of Cascade at 5 min.
Dry Hop 20g Cascade at day 7-14.

OG: 1.06 FG: 1.011
IBU: 41 EBC: 18.5

Boiled hops at 1.045, and followed hop schedule. Pitched at 18C, primary for 1 and half weeks, cold crash in secondary for 1 week.

If I were to change anything I would change add another dry hop during the cold crash to give it some extra aroma, but apart from that it was my best pale ale so far.

 

[xredwood]

Can someone help me out a bit with this recipe? I tried to download the beersmith file but it just says error importing file every time. I'm trying to order the grain but I can't find the BB Pale Malt, should I just use Ale Malt? Is the Pale Malt the same as the Pilsner Pale Malt?

Looking through the forums there is an issue importing beersmith 1 files on a mac. Is there anyone out there who has a beersmith 2 file they could send me?

 

[Beertard]

I went with pale ale malt.

 

[xredwood]

Can you send me a link to someone who sells it so I know what I'm looking for?

 

[Parks]

The Ale malt is the pale malt - http://www.craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=773

 

[Parks]

This is my version exported from OSX BS 2 - View attachment little-fellas-pale-ale.bsmx

Adjust the ingredients according to changes in the thread. I made this 2 1/2 years ago.

 

[JDW81]

Can someone help me out a bit with this recipe? I tried to download the beersmith file but it just says error importing file every time. I'm trying to order the grain but I can't find the BB Pale Malt, should I just use Ale Malt? Is the Pale Malt the same as the Pilsner Pale Malt?

Looking through the forums there is an issue importing beersmith 1 files on a mac. Is there anyone out there who has a beersmith 2 file they could send me?

Pale malt will be fine, but it isn't the same as pilsner malt. Pilsner malt is slightly lighter, but would still be ok to use. I tend to use maris otter for most of my ales, and used it the last time I made this one. Result was the best beer I'd made for quite a while.

JD

 

[xredwood]

OK I've had a crack at scaling this recipe and adjusting it for this years hops. I have never done anything like this before so can someone have a look for me and see how bad I screwed it up? I notice in the original the AA % for Cascade was significantly lower (7.4 vs 6) so I have adjusted most of these values down. I'm just not sure that I was supposed to do this for all of them or I was just supposed to decrease the amounts of the 60 min hops. Anyway, I have attached what I came up with, please feel free to adjust or add any pointers!

Cheers,
Xander

View attachment LFPA Attempt.pdf

 

[Beertard]

Looks groovy baby
Yesterday I went with 3.5kg pale 1kg munich1 250g carapills and 250g wheat, and sg was 1.042 exacery
,next time I think id like it higher so will try 4kg pale 1.2kg munich1 300g carapills and 300g wheat.
hops look fine to me

 

[Beertard]

Are you using fresh hops?

 

[xredwood]

By fresh do you mean flowers or just are they old? I'll be making an order for pellets from craftbrewer specifically to make this one

 

[Beertard]

Just wondering because you said you adjusted for this years hops, thought you might have fresh whole hops.
I've read you can use 10% less if your using pellets

 

[xredwood]

Oh right sorry, I just meant this years as in the AA% is different to the original recipe