This is a quick and easy recipe for an easy drinking summer ale that I cobbled together with some ingredients that I had on hand. It’s an easy way to turn a Coopers Lager kit into a decent pale ale.
Style Information
Name:
Pale Ale
Recipe Type:
Extract
Type:
Ale
Grains & Extracts
| Name | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Coopers Lager kit | 1.7kg | |
| Light Dry Malt Extract | 0.5kg | |
| Light Crystal | 0.25kg | |
| Dextrose | 0.5kg |
Hops
| Name | Amount | Alpha Acid % | AAU | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simcoe | 10g | 13% | 130 | 15 | |
| Simcoe | 20g | 13% | 260 | 0 |
Yeasts
| Name | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| US-05 | harvested for a previous batch |
Boil
Amount:
7L
Water Description:
Time:
15 minutes
Target Batch Size:
20L
Profile
Estimated OG:
1.047
Estimated FG:
1.010
Estimated ABV:
5.20%
Bitterness:
32.5 IBU
Tasting notes
This is not a 'wow' beer but it's decent. Reasonably bitter, there must be a fair amount of IBUs in the Coopers Lager kit. Miles better than a straight up version of the kit but the kit taste does feature a bit more than I'd prefer. Dry hopping would be an obvious improvement to make, although in this case I was going for a less hoppy type of beer so I skipped the dry hops.