I know! Really? A Colorado Cool-aid Clone? Hang on now! The beer gods had a curve ball thrown at'em... Beer...good beer has been taken away from the wife. So I'm trying to get her a good GF basic beer she can enjoy. From there...well an amber then a her fav...a red! Then maybe we go GF for all our pours!
So here's my try at developing a GF recipe of a "light" yellow fizzy brew. My hope was to use 2-row Pils and 6-row lager malt with a 90-minute mash as the base. Our local HBS doesn't carry 6-row. So my fall back option is to bump up the Pils malt, add rice solids, flaked rice and flaked corn. Check out the recipe and share your comments. O! The GF component: Clarity Ferm in primary.
A question: Is 1/2 LB of flaked Corn and 1/2 LB of Rice enough?? Should I go full out and add a full pound of each? I'm trying to keep this under/around 4% ABV. But the taste has to be there too.... Should I back off the Pils malt and bump up the flaked Rice & Corn?
Recipe:
BJCP Style and Style Guidelines
02-C Pilsner, Classic American Pilsner
Min OG: 1.044 Max OG: 1.060
Min IBU: 25 Max IBU: 40
Min Clr: 3 Max Clr: 6 Color in SRM, Lovibond
Recipe Specifics
Batch Size (Gal): 5.00 Wort Size (Gal): 5.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 8.25
Anticipated OG: 1.047 Plato: 11.64
Anticipated SRM: 2.9
Anticipated IBU: 23.6
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70 %
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Actual OG: 1.043 Plato: 10.62
Actual FG: 1.012 Plato: 3.07
Alc by Weight: 3.14 by Volume: 4.02 From Measured Gravities.
ADF: 71.1 RDF: 59.1 Apparent & Real Degree of Fermentation.
Pre-Boil Amounts
Evaporation Rate: 12.00 Percent Per Hour
Raw Pre-Boil Amounts - only targeted volume/gravity and evaporation
rate taken into account:
Pre-Boil Wort Size: 5.68 Gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.041 SG 10.29 Plato
With sparge water, mash water, additional infusions, vessel losses, top-up
water and evaporation rate recorded in the Water Needed Calculator:
Water Needed Pre-Boil Wort Size: 6.89 Gal
Water Needed Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.034 SG 8.53 Plato
Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
75.8 6.25 lbs. Pilsener (Durst) Germany 1.038 2
12.1 1.00 lbs. Rice Solids Generic 1.040 0
6.1 0.50 lbs. Flaked Corn (Maize) USA 1.040 1
6.1 0.50 lbs. Flaked Rice Generic 1.040 1
Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.
Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
1.50 oz. Hallertau Hersbrucker Pellet 2.50 18.5 60 min
2.50 oz. Hallertau Hersbrucker Pellet 2.50 5.1 5 min
Yeast
DCL Yeast S-23 SafLager W. Euro Lager
Rest Temp Time
Dough In: 0 0 Min
Saccharification Rest: 149 90 Min
Mash-out Rest: 168 15 Min
Sparge: 0 0 Min
Fermentation Notes
Stage 1: 53 Degrees @ 14 Days
Stage 2: 68 Degrees D-Rest @ 3 Days
Stage 3: 35 Degrees @ 3 Weeks then Keg
Many thanks.
Gene
So here's my try at developing a GF recipe of a "light" yellow fizzy brew. My hope was to use 2-row Pils and 6-row lager malt with a 90-minute mash as the base. Our local HBS doesn't carry 6-row. So my fall back option is to bump up the Pils malt, add rice solids, flaked rice and flaked corn. Check out the recipe and share your comments. O! The GF component: Clarity Ferm in primary.
A question: Is 1/2 LB of flaked Corn and 1/2 LB of Rice enough?? Should I go full out and add a full pound of each? I'm trying to keep this under/around 4% ABV. But the taste has to be there too.... Should I back off the Pils malt and bump up the flaked Rice & Corn?
Recipe:
BJCP Style and Style Guidelines
02-C Pilsner, Classic American Pilsner
Min OG: 1.044 Max OG: 1.060
Min IBU: 25 Max IBU: 40
Min Clr: 3 Max Clr: 6 Color in SRM, Lovibond
Recipe Specifics
Batch Size (Gal): 5.00 Wort Size (Gal): 5.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 8.25
Anticipated OG: 1.047 Plato: 11.64
Anticipated SRM: 2.9
Anticipated IBU: 23.6
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70 %
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Actual OG: 1.043 Plato: 10.62
Actual FG: 1.012 Plato: 3.07
Alc by Weight: 3.14 by Volume: 4.02 From Measured Gravities.
ADF: 71.1 RDF: 59.1 Apparent & Real Degree of Fermentation.
Pre-Boil Amounts
Evaporation Rate: 12.00 Percent Per Hour
Raw Pre-Boil Amounts - only targeted volume/gravity and evaporation
rate taken into account:
Pre-Boil Wort Size: 5.68 Gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.041 SG 10.29 Plato
With sparge water, mash water, additional infusions, vessel losses, top-up
water and evaporation rate recorded in the Water Needed Calculator:
Water Needed Pre-Boil Wort Size: 6.89 Gal
Water Needed Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.034 SG 8.53 Plato
Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
75.8 6.25 lbs. Pilsener (Durst) Germany 1.038 2
12.1 1.00 lbs. Rice Solids Generic 1.040 0
6.1 0.50 lbs. Flaked Corn (Maize) USA 1.040 1
6.1 0.50 lbs. Flaked Rice Generic 1.040 1
Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.
Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
1.50 oz. Hallertau Hersbrucker Pellet 2.50 18.5 60 min
2.50 oz. Hallertau Hersbrucker Pellet 2.50 5.1 5 min
Yeast
DCL Yeast S-23 SafLager W. Euro Lager
Rest Temp Time
Dough In: 0 0 Min
Saccharification Rest: 149 90 Min
Mash-out Rest: 168 15 Min
Sparge: 0 0 Min
Fermentation Notes
Stage 1: 53 Degrees @ 14 Days
Stage 2: 68 Degrees D-Rest @ 3 Days
Stage 3: 35 Degrees @ 3 Weeks then Keg
Many thanks.
Gene
