Recipe ideas

[alexriverajr]

I have some inherited goodies and looking for ideas for a recipe. The following are the ingredients:

7lb Wheat LME
6LBs Extra Pale Ale LME
3.3lbs CBW Pilsen Light LME
1lbs CBW Pilsen Light DME
1oz German Perle
1oz Ahtanum
11.5g Saflager S-23

Any help would be great!!!

 

[McGarnigle]

Hopefully you aren't insistent on using all of that in one recipe!

You seem pretty limited there, with no specialty grains. And I don't think you have enough hops to go big. So maybe just use the 6 lbs LME and the 1 lb DME. I think that gets you around 1.050.

You could use all the Ahtanum for bittering and the Perle late. I'm guessing ~40 IBUs. Seems a waste of Ahtanum, but that's what you have.

If you wanted to go non-traditional, intertwine the two hops. I might suggest using some of the wheat, but it's LME, so I'm guessing all or nothing. I don't know about a wheat lager.

 

[alexriverajr]

Well not really. I'm looking for ideas. I'm game for specialty grains or hops to make something tasty.

 

[RM-MN]

Are you willing to buy some more hops and make an IPA? Buy grains and do a pale ale? How about different grains and hops and make a porter or even a stout?

What I'm getting at is that if you only want to use what you already have you are limited but with some additions, anything is possible.

 

[alexriverajr]

Are you willing to buy some more hops and make an IPA? Buy grains and do a pale ale? How about different grains and hops and make a porter or even a stout?

What I'm getting at is that if you only want to use what you already have you are limited but with some additions, anything is possible.

Absolutely. Right now I have a bottled Pumpkin & Belgian White. I have a Peanut Butter Chocolate Stout in a primary. I'm trying to make something that compliments that catalog. I'm willing to by a few items if need be.

 

[RM-MN]

How about a pale ale?
6 Lbs extra light LNE
1 LB Crystal 40 or 60 (I like either, YMMV) steeped

1 oz Warrior or another hop with high alpha acid. (Nugget works for me since that is what is available locally) at 60 for bittering.
1 oz Citra dry hopped
1 oz Cascade dry hopped

 

[alexriverajr]

How about a pale ale?
6 Lbs extra light LNE
1 LB Crystal 40 or 60 (I like either, YMMV) steeped

1 oz Warrior or another hop with high alpha acid. (Nugget works for me since that is what is available locally) at 60 for bittering.
1 oz Citra dry hopped
1 oz Cascade dry hopped

What do you think of the following:

6lb Extra Pale - LME
1lb Cara 8
1oz German Perle @ 60 mins
1oz Ahtanum @ 10 mins
Saflager-23

Suggestions accepted.

 

[RM-MN]

i think the German Perle hops will be short on bittering for a pale ale. That doesn't mean you won't like it but I'd prefer a little more bitterness. I also like the citrus aroma but that is personal preference too.