re: Homebrewing: Calculating a American Pale Ale Recipe

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What are you hoping for with a 1/4 pound of cara pils and the .5 pound of cara amber?

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I've used cara-pils before, but in larger quantities. The head on that beer was pretty stout. So i wanted to keep some of the head retention, just not as much.
The amber was used, because A) to add some color and B) i've researched some pale ale's and IPA's that i like, and a few use amber malt. Granted the 1/2 lb probably doesn't amount to much, but i wanted to keep my base grain to specialty grain ratio of 85/15, which is typical of pale ale's.

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Why the pound of Munich and a pound of crystal 20?

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The crystal 20 is for more body and color as well as the Munich. Granted i might not be able to tell much from the addition, but we'll see.

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A thirty minute hop addition is probably a bad idea. Either add it at 60 or 15

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I've done 30 minute hop additions all the time with no bad effects. Why do you say it's a bad idea?