Cream Ale AG Cream Ale

[brewmasterbates]

This brew went off beautifully. We hit a gravity of 1.049, 6 gallons. We used hersbruckers, which smelled incredible, never used them before, we added 1 oz of the Saaz, due to pilot error.., and finished off with a flame out of about 1/2 of the hersbruckers, since co-pilot added the entire ounce insted of 1/2. But we made 6 gallons, looked, smelled awesome. This recipe looks like a winner.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

Yooper, I will be brewing this next weekend with some slight modifications. To use up grains I have sitting around. But I had a thought. Could you help me develop an Imperial Cream Ale (9-10%) that has the same balance as the original recipe?? Just an idea. Lemme know what u think.

 

[Yooper]

Yooper, I will be brewing this next weekend with some slight modifications. To use up grains I have sitting around. But I had a thought. Could you help me develop an Imperial Cream Ale (9-10%) that has the same balance as the original recipe?? Just an idea. Lemme know what u think.

I just don't know! I guess you could boost up the fermentables and also the bittering hops to keep the same SG/IBU ratio, but I have no other idea what I would do.

 

[brewmasterbates]

or just add corn sugar to it, im not a huge fan of it, but it's a sure fire way to get fermentable sugars.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

I think I'll put the recipe into Beersmith, scale it up, and use a yeast well suited for, say, Imperial IPA's. one that ferments clean up to 10% with few esthers. Yooper, any suggestions?

 

[Yooper]

I think I'll put the recipe into Beersmith, scale it up, and use a yeast well suited for, say, Imperial IPA's. one that ferments clean up to 10% with few esthers. Yooper, any suggestions?

I"ve never tried a "bigger" cream ale, so I'm clueless on this, sorry! I like my cream ales very light and crisp and quaffable and not with a higher OG than about 1.050-1.054.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

Kinda part of why i want to make it. Never heard of one lol!!

 

[sok454]

Well going by the LHBS today on the way thru town... got my shopping list for this and dead guy ale clone.

Woo hoo!

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

After a long hot day of working on my home, I like to enjoy a tall refreshing glass of Yooper's American Cream Ale! If you ain't drinkjn Yooper's, you're not American!!

 

[brewmasterbates]

OK, so let me say... this recipe is F'ing outstanding. We set this on the Co2 about 8 days ago, brewed maybe 4 weeks ago. Last night as we brewed a red IPA, we got into the Yooper cream ale for first time. We are just in love with this stuff. Brought over a neighbor just to make sure we're not gaga over this because we made it.. he was floored, and so was his wife, who doesn't drink beer/ale. This is great. Ours has an ABV of 6% though. I just had 3 pints, and I am feelin it. Once again, i would totally reccomend thisrecipe. It's tremendous.

 

[sok454]

Which recipe did u use? The first one listed?

 

[brewmasterbates]

Yes, Yoopers first post recipe. Very basic. We did have to adjust our mash PH, as with many yellow beers, was not enough lactic acid on it's own. And we adjusted our local water according to PH balance. But everything else, we did just as she instructed. Nice, crisp, dry finish. And 6% is perfect. We're already planning to make another 12 gallons of this in a few weeks. Ground squirrel away a keg or 2 for winter blues.

 

[sok454]

is it close to spotted cow? i'm not a fan but all my friends salivate if you say the name...and being in IL its not available.

 

[Yooper]

OK, so let me say... this recipe is F'ing outstanding. We set this on the Co2 about 8 days ago, brewed maybe 4 weeks ago. Last night as we brewed a red IPA, we got into the Yooper cream ale for first time. We are just in love with this stuff. Brought over a neighbor just to make sure we're not gaga over this because we made it.. he was floored, and so was his wife, who doesn't drink beer/ale. This is great. Ours has an ABV of 6% though. I just had 3 pints, and I am feelin it. Once again, i would totally reccomend thisrecipe. It's tremendous.

I'm glad you like it! I have just a little bit left and it's supposed to be 91 today, so I have a feeling we'll be finishing it off.

is it close to spotted cow? i'm not a fan but all my friends salivate if you say the name...and being in IL its not available.

No, it's not like Spotted Cow. Spotted Cow has a lighter body and feel- it's got corn in it to help with that. Spotted Cow is more like Biermunchers "Cream of Three Crops", except with all corn instead of rice and corn.

 

[brewmasterbates]

I just filled 8 grolsch bottles with the remainer of this 3 gallon keg, just so we could get keg 2 on the Co2. Curious how the glass will soften the flavor. I do notice, even bottling off the keg, the ale actually bottle conditions after being out of the stainless steel keg.

 

[sok454]

So what did your guy's taste like after the boil? I just tasted it and its sweet w just a little bit of hops on the end. Not bad actually....

 

[brewmasterbates]

ours was pretty sweet as well, but finished off very dry & crisp. I am actually starting to think we're more in the 6.5% to 7% ABV range. I have one of these and I can feel it. Our efficiency has been up in the 75% area. We seem to be extracting uber amounts of sugars from our grains. Thing is, if this is around 6.5/7% range... you'd never know it by the taste. All in all, this grain bill, combined with this yeast, just works really well together. A perfect marraige so to speak. Sometimes, you find a great combo, I would say this is one.. for us anyhow.

 

[brewmasterbates]

Hate to be juvenile, oh hell.. no I don't.lolol, I just had 2 pints of this after mowig the lawn in 85 degree heat & 100% humidity & a shower. I just about walked into the wall in my dining room... My numbers on this say it is 6%, but my brain says this is easily in the range of 7/7.5%... how can our actual readings be that far off? Is it possible for ale in the 6% range to rockzor your soxzors off in yay such a manner?

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

Yesterday I was at my brothers re roofing his garage. All day in the sun. Had to stop for about 15 at one point cause I was just to hot to continue!! Came home after about 10 hours in the sun and sat outside, waiting for my turn for the shower. I had one of these. Bottles it about three weeks ago. After one( JUST ONE!!) I stood up and had to sit right back down. I was pretty much hammered!! You gotta be careful when drinkin a Yoopers AG American Cream Ale

 

[sok454]

Did a check today and the reading was already down to 1.028 from 1.049. Tastes like 'beer' that my friends would like.

 

[brewmasterbates]

we just killed our last keg of this, so good... we just picked up another 20lbs of grain...lol. This is a great "house" ale. Appeals to the masses, and the discrimanting pallet. A real nice combo of grain & yeast.

 

[brewmasterbates]

we brewed 12 gallons on sat night of this again. We did 2 things we have never done before. We washed and reused the yeast from the last batch and used it, and we also just recently just got an oxygen stone. Between the washed yeast w/starter and the oxygen.... we airlocked them at 1AM and by 9AM we had crazy activity. So I am curious how these things work.

 

[Yooper]

we just killed our last keg of this, so good... we just picked up another 20lbs of grain...lol. This is a great "house" ale. Appeals to the masses, and the discrimanting pallet. A real nice combo of grain & yeast.

We like it too! We especially like it for the summer, when a lighter beer is especially appreciated on hot days.

 

[gonzoTG]

This is my first all grain batch. A lesson in what can go wrong. New 10 gal MLT at the ready, I missed the strike temp on the high side and kept mixing until panic set in then added ice. Over shot this and had to add boiling water to get back up to 148. Kind of like the old joke about sawing a table leg to get it even. Likely mashed for 90 min or more with what had to be about 5 gallons of water by the time all was said and done. Set up to fly sparge with what little water I could use to 6.75 gal. 90 min boil and my OG is 1.054 which seems high. Found out after that my digital thermometer was failing. Blew the airlock out today (less than 24 hrs) so it's going. Hope it's drinkable after a rough start. Extract seems simple by comparison 😃.

 

[brewmasterbates]

you need to know your equipment. For instance, if we are going to mash at 152, we factor in "dead space" in our tun, as well as temp outside. We use the orange home depot coolers, which are tremendous for keeping temp, IMO. Also, we stick the digital thermometer onto the grain.. usually around 70 degrees. All those things bring temps down. So we usually heat to 170. by the time we transfer water from kettle to cooler, dough in grains, we usually drop to 155ish. Let sit with top off if want to come down. We have valve in ours, so we drain from bottom and add back to top. Always cooler at top. That usually brings us down to 152ish, seal it up. doesn't move a bit. Look at it this way, if you come in a little cool, you can always bring temps up by adding some hot water. Cooling, and coming in way to hot, to me, is harder to correct during the process.

 

[roastquake]

Saving this recipe for later. Need to do another cream ale soon, and I've never used the MO/biscuit/saaz combo. I'm getting tired of my usual 2-row/rice/cascade mix, it's time to do something new. I'll probably keep the rice instead of using corn though.

 

[brewmasterbates]

the flaked maize is tremendous in this recipe. It dries it out, makes it crisp. I love it in there. This is a solid recipe, we stuck pretty much to yoops original on page 1, only modifying our water, and it turned out fantastic. Everyone who's tried it, LOVED it as well. Live a little, try something different.

 

[sok454]

Just threw in gelatin and put it in the fridge to crash. Actually put in freezer for 3 hours after pitching gelatin. Already was clearing up nicely!

 

[bluelakebrewing]

Gotta brew this. Didn't have time to read whole thread but curious what concensus yeast choice was? Wyeast 2112 or maybe 1007?

 

[brewmasterbates]

FYI, on our 2nd keg of this, our second time brewing... I cannot stop drinking this.. lol AWESOME!! One of my new house faves. Great flavor. Brewing a gloden ale tonight, with a little zythos pellet hops, and a human heads worth of fresh cascades. also, we are going to use our newly created hopback system to flow though. Even know this isn't an IPA, or pale ale, it may be a cross between a blonde & light IPA. but who knows!!