Australian pale ale

[jam]

Has anyone done Australian pale ale please? If so is it worth a go

 

[clibit]

Do you mean Coopers?

 

[jam]

Yes coopers

 

[clibit]

It's popular. Pale, not very bitter. I would dry hop it myself for more hop flavour.

 

[jam]

Dry hop when fermentation is complete is it?

 

[Racinsnake]

It is!!
That way your not praying for fermentation to finish at the same time as the dry hopping period.

Rob.

 

[clibit]

Yes, let the fermentation die down, add hops, bottle five days later.

 

[jam]

Cheers guys

 

[terrym]

I did this with 35g total dry hop of First Gold and Cascade in equal parts, but if I did it again I would only use Cascade.
I have also found it definitely needs leaving alone. Mine is now five weeks on from bottling and is far more drinkable than at two weeks.

 

[Leon103]

Yes, its good as a base ale that can be dry hopped or like me adding honey to. I agree that it needs a few weeks in the bottle before trying.

 

[copperconker]

I did the coopers australian pale ale last week using falconers flight & equinox, us05,been in fermenter since the 01/09/15,
1 kg brewing sugar,500g dry light malt extract, 19 ltr & 3ltr pat cap experiment on going, got a taster today,very clean taste, strong cascade flavour,very cloudy thou, will put into secondry this weekend digits crossed.

 

[jam]

Honey when do you add that then cause that sounds nice and how much do you put in?

 

[Leon103]

To be honest it was all guess work and didn't wrk out as planned. If I was doing all grain I would add about 500g 5 minutes before end of boil but because it was a kit I didn't know what to do. I ended up putting in about 300g when I made the kit up as 200g during priming stage but it's now over primed.

 

[jam]

Is there any need to put finnings in for ale?

 

[clibit]

You don't need finings in a kit.