Would this taste good?

[ext41]

I want to get some advice on how i should make my next patch from the following ingredients or if i should at all.

Coopers Australian Pale Ale Extract 1.7 kg
Coopers kit yeast
Light DME 1 kg
Sugar 400 g

Chinook pellet hops 100g

30 min - 25 g
15 min - 25 g

Thought about strong tasting full bodied winter style beer.

What do you think?

 

[chickypad]

Well as is it's going to be a fairly light in color pale ale, probably a little thin bodied with the approx 10% sugar, so you're going to need to modify it. With just about any winter/holiday beer recipe that you find you should be able to use your extract to make up some of the base malt. You can also probably sub in some of the chinook, as least for bittering. In the recipe forum the styles you're looking for are probably in the spice/herb category.

 

[masscarriers]

Well if you're adding 400g of sugar in the boil it's going to come off in a really dry, golden pale ale (or IPA, depending on where the missing 50g of chinook goes?)

If you're adding the 400g of sugar to prime, you're making bottle bombs. Both ways it isn't coming off as a full bodied, winter-style beer but rather like a clean and crisp pale ale. Cooper's dry yeast is known for it's high attenuation also.