I don't recall if I posted about it before, but I had the MLPA on tap for my camping trip a few weeks ago. I remember why I've brewed this beer so much. It was really good. The only change I made from the original recipe was british C-60 rather than american. Has a slightly less candy sweet caramel flavor. I really enjoyed it and so did everyone else. I'll have to put it back in rotation so I can enjoy it a little more. Such a simple but delicious beer. Cheers!
I was noodling with this last night. Back when I brewed this beer very regularly, I was probably not making any mods to my water. My source water has 21ppm chloride and 27ppm sulfate which would benefit a recipe like MLPA that is light on hops. The higher sulfate would help make the beer a little crisper as opposed to making it maltier and pushing it too far in that direction. I'm often in the habit of adding more chloride than sulfate and I may have done that on later batches of MLPA.... possibly leading to my adjustment of the recipe. In the old days the sulfate would represent 56% of the chloride+sulfate in the recipe but I consider the calcium to be a little low still (34ppm). So by adding a gram of each I can get the calcium up into the 50s and keep the sulfate percentage in the same ballpark. I'm going to make it soon (not my next batch but the batch after that) and I'm going back to the original recipe and using this water profile to see how it comes out. Thx for mentioning it Rich.
