Indieg wrote:...Any Little Creatures recipes to check out?
Welcome aboard Indieg

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I live a little over a mile from Little Creatures. John Palmer apparently said that Little Creatures Pale Ale was just like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, only better."
Well, I don't know about that.
LC and SN have to constantly juggle hops for a start. (Big mainstream beers usually hop with hop extracts as far as I know - it's a different ball-game.) That's why when you taste a LC or an SN it will never taste exactly the same from batch to batch. The brewer tries to give you the same beer each batch but each batch is unique.
Over time you will notice differences. LCPA (to me anyway) is now a lot smoother (less harsh) than it was four years ago. Now, it is a lot closer to NRB's All Amarillo Pale Ale recipe. (Mind you, there are four different types of hops that might be used in LCPA that I know of. Sometimes only two might be used in a batch. It's a very skilled juggle that depends on availability, storage etc etc...
I'm not very good on describing beers but the essentials of a good LCPA for me would be that it has a bit of bite (but not too much) and a heap of passionfruit flavour and aroma. NRB's All Amarillo Pale Ale is the easiest recipe I have found along these lines.
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