All-Grain - Cream of Three Crops (Cream Ale) - Page 54

gicts · 03-04-2010, 07:57 PM

I force carbed it today and am a little worried. Came out looking as light and pale as lemon juice (I guess that's the corn speaking) and having little to no flavor.

I guess time will tell. I think I under did the grains.

I did a 5 gallon batch with
5 lb pale 2-row
2 lb flaked maize
12 oz Minute Rice
.5 oz Crystal and
.5 oz Williamette

GunnerMan · 03-04-2010, 08:24 PM

Thats about how I brew mine, .5 lb Rice, 1.75 lbs corn, and about 5 lbs 2 row. What was your OG and Fg?

philrose · 03-05-2010, 12:58 AM

First ten gallon batch today with this recipe on a buddy's rims. Got rediculous efficiency (for me), 88% yipes!

wcarter1227 · 03-05-2010, 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by gicts

I force carbed it today and am a little worried. Came out looking as light and pale as lemon juice (I guess that's the corn speaking) and having little to no flavor.

I guess time will tell. I think I under did the grains.

I did a 5 gallon batch with
5 lb pale 2-row
2 lb flaked maize
12 oz Minute Rice
.5 oz Crystal and
.5 oz Williamette

i did 5.5 lb 2 row
2.5 flaked maize
1lb flake rice

gicts · 03-06-2010, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by GunnerMan

Thats about how I brew mine, .5 lb Rice, 1.75 lbs corn, and about 5 lbs 2 row. What was your OG and Fg?

I couldn't get an OG but the FG is 1.08

. It is starting to grow on me, but the color is still off and tart

mhermetz · 03-06-2010, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Bdogg

Turned out pretty good. A bit too much corn-ish sweetness for me - maybe that will mellow out with aging. But I will revise it a bit when I make it again because it is otherwise excellent. Also my friend who said he doesn't drink "dark beer" when I cracked open a pale ale likes it quite a bit too.

Sterling hops turned out great.

I just poured my first today and I have to say it starts off nice but then I'm hit with huge corn flavour.... I don't like it at all actually. I'm not being beer snobbish, I actually still drink bud or Molson at times, but this was too strong. I think for my next 5 gallon batch I'd cut the corn in half.

I really don't think it's DMS either... I did a 90min boil.

philrose · 03-06-2010, 09:10 PM

I gotta say that if you are tasting more than a faint corn flavor there is probably something wrong with your process. Fully converted, well attenuated examples of the recipe turn out very clean and crisp.

mhermetz · 03-08-2010, 02:34 PM

So what could be the potential problem then?

Not hitting a good mash temp? I had mine vary but I kept it pretty steady the whole time.

Blindguardian · 03-08-2010, 11:13 PM

Just finished my first batch of this on my new upgraded equipment.

I was suppose to end up with 5.50 gal from an 8 gal 90 min boil but ended up with 6.25 gal. MY Pre- boil gravity was 1.031 and post boil gravity ended at 1.044. The only thing that was off was my IBUs I was suppose to have 14.4 IBUs but with not boiling off the amount that BTP said I should I ended up with only 12.2 IBUs.

How is this going to effect the taste?

philrose · 03-09-2010, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by mhermetz

So what could be the potential problem then?

Not hitting a good mash temp? I had mine vary but I kept it pretty steady the whole time.

Maybe, also what was your fg?