Buying ingredients

[Chicago_Eric_]

I'm about to start my third brew and this time I want to go from a kit to just an easier recipe found online...baby steps here. I found this Citra Pale Ale that looks doable. http://homebrewacademy.com/citra-pale-ale/

I'm having a bit of trouble finding all the exact ingredients from the sites in my country. (Spain). So far I can find..

Pale Malt 7
Crystal Gold 120 EBC which I guess is equivalent to 45L
but no CaraPils

Hops are taken care of, the site has them.

Yeast...not sure on what would be the equivalent for WLP001.

Here's the site, pretty sure you won't need to know Spanish to help me out. Levadura is yeast and carmelizada is malt.
http://www.masmalta.com/es/63-levadura-fermentis
http://www.masmalta.com/es/105-levadura-mangrove-jack-s
http://www.masmalta.com/es/71-caramelizadas

Thanks all!

 

[tgolanos]

As far as the yeast goes, you could use M44, the West Coast Ale Yeast.

I can't seem to find Carapils on your LHBS website, either. Give them a ring. You never know, they might actually have it, but just not on their website. You could also do a search for dextrin or maltodextrin powder. It would do the same as Carapils.

Good luck on your next brew

 

[RM-MN]

I'm about to start my third brew and this time I want to go from a kit to just an easier recipe found online...baby steps here. I found this Citra Pale Ale that looks doable. http://homebrewacademy.com/citra-pale-ale/

I'm having a bit of trouble finding all the exact ingredients from the sites in my country. (Spain). So far I can find..

Pale Malt 7
Crystal Gold 120 EBC which I guess is equivalent to 45L
but no CaraPils

Hops are taken care of, the site has them.

Yeast...not sure on what would be the equivalent for WLP001.

Here's the site, pretty sure you won't need to know Spanish to help me out. Levadura is yeast and carmelizada is malt.
http://www.masmalta.com/es/63-levadura-fermentis
http://www.masmalta.com/es/105-levadura-mangrove-jack-s
http://www.masmalta.com/es/71-caramelizadas

Thanks all!

This is a pretty simple all grain beer and to make it simpler, forget about the Carapils. Carapils is a mostly tasteless malt that improves heading. I haven't used it in years and get a full head on my beers without it. Until you have more experience, US-05 yeast from Fermentis will be a fine choice for this beer. Keep the temperature under control during the first 3 to5 days of fermentation as the yeast activity will raise the temperature of the beer and that can give you off flavors. I'd suggest about 65F. for fermenting.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'm having a bit of trouble finding all the exact ingredients from the sites in my country. (Spain). So far I can find..

Pale Malt 7
Crystal Gold 120 EBC which I guess is equivalent to 45L
but no CaraPils

Hops are taken care of, the site has them.

Yeast...not sure on what would be the equivalent for WLP001.

Don't sweat the exact ingredients - people tie themselves in knots trying to replicate recipes from other countries exactly, when local ingredients will do the job just as well. In particular you see people in Europe agonise over very-weird-for-Europe ingredients in an attempt to replicate US recipes that use quite-weird-for-the-US ingredients that they are only using in an attempt to replicate common-for-Europe ingredients. It gets particularly complicated with Carapils, as the trademark is owned by different companies in different countries.

So don't sweat it. Your store gets its malt from Castle in Belgium who have full specs online, and this conversion chart gives equivalents between Castle and one of the big US maltsters - it suggests a smaller quantity of Cara Blonde as a replacement for Carapils, but as tgolanos suggested, I'd just forget it.

Fermentis US-05 is a close relative of WLP001, Mangrove Jack M44 is pretty similar - again I wouldn't sweat it, it's just code for "any clean US-style yeast" and not "you must use WLP001 or you will never make drinkable beer".

Looking at some of your prices - over €40 inc shipping for 25kg pale malt, €50 for Maris Otter - you might want to think about ordering some bulk malts from either Brouwland or one of the British sites like www.brewwuk.com, brewstore.co.uk or themaltmiller.co.uk (no affiliation) or maybe www.autobrasseur.fr (don't know them, but they have the Castle malts and eg pale malt at €28.50+tax and shipping). The shipping costs won't be great, but you'll save enough on the sack of malt to at least save half the shipping costs and you'll have the option of throwing some specialist stuff into the package like specialist yeasts, equipment and malts that you may not be able to get in Spain.

 

[Lefou]

Fermentis Safale US-05 dry yeast is a good alternative for liquid WLP-001. I've used both but prefer the liquid yeast.

 

[Chicago_Eric_]

Don't sweat the exact ingredients - people tie themselves in knots trying to replicate recipes from other countries exactly, when local ingredients will do the job just as well. In particular you see people in Europe agonise over very-weird-for-Europe ingredients in an attempt to replicate US recipes that use quite-weird-for-the-US ingredients that they are only using in an attempt to replicate common-for-Europe ingredients. It gets particularly complicated with Carapils, as the trademark is owned by different companies in different countries.

So don't sweat it. Your store gets its malt from Castle in Belgium who have full specs online, and this conversion chart gives equivalents between Castle and one of the big US maltsters - it suggests a smaller quantity of Cara Blonde as a replacement for Carapils, but as tgolanos suggested, I'd just forget it.

Fermentis US-05 is a close relative of WLP001, Mangrove Jack M44 is pretty similar - again I wouldn't sweat it, it's just code for "any clean US-style yeast" and not "you must use WLP001 or you will never make drinkable beer".

Looking at some of your prices - over €40 inc shipping for 25kg pale malt, €50 for Maris Otter - you might want to think about ordering some bulk malts from either Brouwland or one of the British sites like www.brewwuk.com, brewstore.co.uk or themaltmiller.co.uk (no affiliation) or maybe www.autobrasseur.fr (don't know them, but they have the Castle malts and eg pale malt at €28.50+tax and shipping). The shipping costs won't be great, but you'll save enough on the sack of malt to at least save half the shipping costs and you'll have the option of throwing some specialist stuff into the package like specialist yeasts, equipment and malts that you may not be able to get in Spain.

Thanks for the options. I'll browse around and see what's the cheapest. The nice thing about the Spanish site is free shipping on a purchase over 35 so it's not too hard the first time around.