Not sure on the water to much however I did find a link on ProMashes idea of a water profile for this beer style: http://www.battlegroundbrewers.com/recipes/Cream_Ale.html
just finished sparging and waiting for the boil to start. i changed it up a bit and used 1 oz williamette and 1 oz saaz . this is my first ag so i am excited. Had some minor set backs so we will see what happened. Overshot my mash temp by 10 degrees. panicked and added cold water then temp was too low so i had to turn the burner back on. Also forgot to calculate in loss of water due to grain absorbing.
Worst case scenario Ill add in some dme to boost the gravity.
Always give your mash some time for the temp to equalize out, 5-10 minutes will make a big difference, unless, that is, you heated your strike water in the mash tun. Stirring with the lid off also drops temps. If I'm still high on the temp I will stir more and add a handful of ice cubes at a time while stirring if needed. For me, 5-6 cubes in the mash, stirred in well, will make about 2˚ difference.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
hey guys brewed this sat and undershot my water. ended up at 1.056. didnt have any water boiled to top off so left it at 4.5 gallons. anyone see any huge problem with this?
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