All-Grain - Cream of Three Crops (Cream Ale) - Page 66

**yogensha** · 07-30-2010, 02:01 AM

I brewed 5 gallons of this less than three weeks ago and I just poured a crystal clear pint. I used grits instead of flaked maize and had a slightly higher ratio of rice. Hopped with Mt. Hood and only boiled for 60 minutes. The wort tasted like sugar water.

As expected, it's very lightly colored and doesn't taste like much I wish I would have hopped it a bit more. I brewed this for a PBR drinker who's staying with me this weekend and I'm sure it won't disappoint!

Thanks for sharing!

SwampassJ · 07-30-2010, 07:49 PM

Using the 5 gallon carboy as a clearing tank made this thing come out like crystal.

**yogensha** · 08-03-2010, 03:44 AM

Yeah, this beer was a total hit. Maybe got a convert or two. Brewed and consumed in 20 days. Crazy.

eastendershomebrew · 08-05-2010, 04:45 PM

ok, just transferred to my secondaries. I am using 2 corney kegs as secondaries. Gravity came in at about 1.008 after 12 days in the primary, down from 1.040... really alot of sediment still, hoping the secondary will clarify some more. cant wait to sample.

**CrookedTail** · 08-12-2010, 02:13 PM

I was thinking of trying a noble hopped PM version of this brew. What do you guys think:

Fermentables
2lbs Briess Golden Light DME
2lbs Pale Two-Row malt
2lbs Flaked Corn
.5lb Minute Rice

Hops
1oz Saaz (60 min)
1oz Saaz (30 min)
1oz Saaz (15min)
1oz Hallertau (5 min)

Nottingham Yeast

jgilbreth · 08-12-2010, 05:37 PM

Chalk another convert up to this one. Got a comment from someone who didn't like my APA very much, loved this one.

The carbonation came out a bit wierd for me on this one though. Very, very fine bubbles. Almost looks like champagne in the glass. Anyone seen that before?

**ThatGuyRyan** · 08-13-2010, 06:38 PM

I made another 10 gallons of this and split it in two buckets. One I used nottingham which fermented out in about 4 days the second I used 05 which is still bubbling away 12 days later and blowing the air lock off three times! I hope it’s just that my basement is a little cool and not a bug in that bucket. Man I miss having my conical free but its enjoying the DFH 120 which is almost done.

patrck17 · 08-17-2010, 08:32 PM

Brewed this on Sunday. It was my maiden attempt on my new herms. I bought the grain 4 months ago but got caught up buying a car/house and only recently was able to brew. I am not too worried about all the mistakes I made but I do expect this batch to not be top notch so I won't judge until my next batch, here are a list of the imperfections with the 5 gallon batch:

1. ) Four month old crushed grain, hops, and yeast. All ingredients were in their sealed containers stored at about 75 for the entire time. Wouldn't really think twice about this if the grain wasn't crushed and the hops were in the fridge, but may be iffy otherwise.

2. ) Brewday was going fine till I got to dough in. Don't really have a good feel for appropriate stike temperature with my system so I set the HLT in temp to 160 assuming the grain would bring it down. Well problem was that as soon as I doughed in my falsebottom got stuck and it remained stuck for the entire duration.

3. ) I played around with the false bottom for about 20 minutes before I gave up on it while the mash temp was dropping and rising between 145-150 the whole time, I finally got the temp to about 150 and just left it alone single infusion style. After about an hour I went to start the sparge (which I knew was going to be stuck), so I pumped in about 8 gallons of water on top of it and waited 5-6 hours for the wort to drain through the grainbed, the grain started at about 165 degrees and dropped across the span of the sparge.

4. ) For the entire process I had no reliable method of measuring volume. Kind of just eyeballing everything. After boil I left the entire brewpot covered in the garage. next day I aerated and took a measurement. Got about 1.057 for what looked like 4.5-5 gallons. I topped it up to where the the better bottle started to narrow and pitched. It was chugging away this morning.

So anyways plenty of imperfections that I really am not too worried about. Tasted it and it seems pretty typical, sweet and a little bitter. I won't be surprised if the beer is off but either way I'll be making this one again, though next time with better volume control and especially RICE HULLS.

Happy brewing.

Paco · 08-17-2010, 08:39 PM

I'm almost at the end of the first of two keg now and I love it! I also received good comments at the last home brew club meeting. Most people that come by the house and try it like it a lot as well and that include the American light lager beer drinker. I will brew it again!

Thanks a bunch for the great recipe BierMuncher!

**BierMuncher** · 08-18-2010, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paco

...I will brew it again!

Thanks a bunch for the great recipe BierMuncher!

My pleasure. Anything to further the homebrewing crusade.