I'm getting ready to brew my first partial mash beer. I don't have the BTUs or kettle space to do all-grain at the moment, but I think this might come pretty close.
With the help of my local HBS, I've adapted Yooper Chick's Corn Cream Ale recipe. I was originally just going to cut the grain amounts in half for the mash for a 2.5-3 gallon boil, do a late extract addition and make up the rest with water. The HBS suggested extra grains to make up for poor extraction and also recommended not cutting the flaked corn or steeping grains (Carapils & Biscuit) in half. What I've ended up with is this:
Cornucopia Cream Ale, 1st iteration
Mash the grains at 150f for 75min w/2.5gal. water (1.25qt./lb); sparge with 3gal. (1.5qt./lb) of 170f water.
Hops are
I'll pitch an XL smack-pack of Wyeast 2565 Kolsch yeast (just to keep things interesting).
My concerns:
Am I missing something? Or am I just overthinking this?
Thanks for your help.
Chad
With the help of my local HBS, I've adapted Yooper Chick's Corn Cream Ale recipe. I was originally just going to cut the grain amounts in half for the mash for a 2.5-3 gallon boil, do a late extract addition and make up the rest with water. The HBS suggested extra grains to make up for poor extraction and also recommended not cutting the flaked corn or steeping grains (Carapils & Biscuit) in half. What I've ended up with is this:
Cornucopia Cream Ale, 1st iteration
- 3lbs Marris Otter
- 3lbs American 6-row
- 1lb Flaked Corn
- .5lb CaraPils
- .5lbs Belgian Biscuit malt
- 2.75lbs British Extra Light Dry Malt Extract
Mash the grains at 150f for 75min w/2.5gal. water (1.25qt./lb); sparge with 3gal. (1.5qt./lb) of 170f water.
Hops are
- 1oz Hersbrucker (pellet) for 60 min.
- .5oz Saaz for 10min. (this is when I'll add the DME)
- .5oz Saaz at flameout
I'll pitch an XL smack-pack of Wyeast 2565 Kolsch yeast (just to keep things interesting).
My concerns:
- I realize I'm not going to get maximum efficiency with a grain bag rather than a real mash tun, but that seems like a cubic buttload of grains for a partial mash, 5-gal. batch.
- Will I end up with too much wort? Runnoff plus sparge should come in somewhere upwards of 5 gallons. What do I do with the 1.5 - 2gal. that won't fit into my pot (without risk of boilover)?
- I've plugged this into a couple of recipe calculators and come up with high OG/FGs. Even with nearly 80% apparent attenuation I probably won't get down to the 1.010 for the style.
Am I missing something? Or am I just overthinking this?
Thanks for your help.
Chad