Caramel cream ale?

[Kayos]

Debtman

Did you do the bam-bam recipe or the caramel cream?

 

[Timekiller]

Mine is in the secondary....

Friday ill be transferring 1 gal. of it and adding the oak chips/ kona coffee to the 1 gal. test batch. I can't wait to try either.

 

[Markusface]

Bottled this brew today, I could help but sample it. It's bordering orgasmic! I'm glad I used genuine bourbon vanilla extract as well, there is a soft nose of vanilla which is gorgeous, I can't get enough of it, and I'm sure using imitation "vanilla extract" would have just made it taste synthetic and icky. Woop!

Rock on! :rockin:

 

[Cheesefood]

Bottled this brew today, I could help but sample it. It's bordering orgasmic! I'm glad I used genuine bourbon vanilla extract as well, there is a soft nose of vanilla which is gorgeous, I can't get enough of it, and I'm sure using imitation "vanilla extract" would have just made it taste synthetic and icky. Woop!

Rock on! :rockin:

Are you the first Brit to make this?

I think you may be.

 

[neuron555]

I made the second version, with the reduced vanilla and lactose, because it sounded too sweet. Probably wouldn't hurt to boost it a little, but my friends certainly haven't complained at all.
I also note that I brewed it in October, then hid it until Christmas and gave it to friends along with the Chocolate Bock. It seems to be getting better each time I pop one open, even now.

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

MMMMMmm, tasted mine today.. has another week in secondary though. Down to 1.018 from 1.056. Tastes AMAZING... can't wait to bottle this sucker.

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

man oh man, i say it again cheesefood. GENIUS!

1 week in the bottle and it's already carbed (only had one to check carb)... has a nice vanilla taste, and a caramel flavor to boot. Not overly sweet with a nice after taste of hops. Warms your stomach and wets your mouth... The honey that i used for bottling didn't dry it out one bit and i think it left a slight honey flavor too (not sure)... Beautiful head (except for it was still kind of frothy rather than heady) and head retention.

Though i noticed (probably since it's still gotta condition) you taste vanilla then like a small gap and you taste some caramel with vanilla then after that you get a nice tracer of hops... will the gap between the caramel and vanilla flavors meld into each other as it conditions???

 

[Cheesefood]

Wait and see! And update us.

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

unbelievable... amazing beer. Still extremely green, only a week in bottles... but had to try one tonight. Gonna let the rest sit for 2 weeks... might have one (or two) next weekend though:

 

[Cheesefood]

unbelievable... amazing beer. Still extremely green, only a week in bottles... but had to try one tonight. Gonna let the rest sit for 2 weeks... might have one (or two) next weekend though:

Looks good!

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Cheese, you rock man. This is such awesome recipe. I can't wait to have kegs and nitrous plugged up to this. Gonna be at least 6 months before I get that setup though.

 

[Cheesefood]

Orpheus, how is yours going?

 

[JnJ]

Mine is getting kegged/bottled this weekend. I can't wait to try it!

 

[JnJ]

Well I finally got my kegged/bottled tonight. Can't wait to try it!

 

[TUCK]

Well I tried Nottingham's yeast for the second run with this beer and have now convinced myself it really matters what type of yeast with a complex beer as this one.

The first time I used a brtish ale yeast cake (White Labs) and it was great, this time it seems very bland and thin without all the layers as before.

*Just putting this out because it was discussed a few pages back.

Once again, this is a great beer

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

Well I tried Nottingham's yeast for the second run with this beer and have now convinced myself it really matters what type of yeast with a complex beer as this one.

The first time I used a brtish ale yeast cake (White Labs) and it was great, this time it seems very bland and thin without all the layers as before.

*Just putting this out because it was discussed a few pages back.

Once again, this is a great beer

It's funny you say that. I used Wyeast's California Lager, the guy at my LHBS said that it was exchangable with what Cheese recommended.

 

[shbrewer]

:rockin: I am racking to seconday tomarrow. First time brewing this and I have about 4 friends not so patiently waiting.

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

MMMMmmmm, 9 days or so in bottles, tasted 1 today... fekkin great beer.

Hey Cheese! Is there a running thread on total gallons of this brewed, like the edwort's apfelwein thread? https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=20383

If not you need to start one.

 

[Reverend JC]

I will be trying it with the safale 56 either tonight or tomorrow. wll post my camparisons when it is drinkable.

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

I did with safale 56... and its excellent. I have nothing to compare to though.

 

[JnJ]

Ok, so I forced carbed it and am drinking a glass now. It is good, like no beer I have ever tasted. I imagine it will get better with age.

 

[debtman7]

Debtman

Did you do the bam-bam recipe or the caramel cream?

I did kind of a bastardization of the two...

Oddly enough, what's really tasty is mixing it black and tan style with the vanilla imperial porter I brewed at the same time... That one I just put in secondary with two split vanilla beans, and it has almost no vanilla flavor, but it's a great porter and tasted great with the CCA.

 

[delboy]

You can put me on the list of people having done this brew. I tried an AG recipe (very similar to one suggested as an AG somewhere in this thread) which i'll post if anyones interested with safale 04. Haven't tried it yet i want to wait until im priming it and adding the lactose/vanilla extract to get the full flavour benefits .

 

[McKBrew]

I am bottling mine today, about two weeks later than I had planned. Took a gravity reading just to see where it's at, then tasted the sample.

This beer is going to be awesome. That's all I can say. It's great when you can take a sip of flat, uncarbonated beer and know that it will be worth the effort you put into it.

Cheese, if you're still out there, thanks for this recipe and all of the work you put into perfecting it for the rest of us.

 

[BierMuncher]

I am bottling mine today, about two weeks later than I had planned. Took a gravity reading just to see where it's at, then tasted the sample.

This beer is going to be awesome. That's all I can say. It's great when you can take a sip of flat, uncarbonated beer and know that it will be worth the effort you put into it.

Cheese, if you're still out there, thanks for this recipe and all of the work you put into perfecting it for the rest of us.

I wasn't impressed with this recipe... (subliminal prod at cheese). It was too sweet at the first and left a bitter aftertaste...(subliminal prod at cheese).

I don't know who (cheese) came up with this recipe but I think they (cheese) should step forward and do some splaining....

Cheese?

Cheese?

Bueller?

Bueller?

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

I wasn't impressed with this recipe... (subliminal prod at cheese). It was too sweet at the first and left a bitter aftertaste...(subliminal prod at cheese).

I don't know who (cheese) came up with this recipe but I think they (cheese) should step forward and do some splaining....

Cheese?

Cheese?

Bueller?

Bueller?

lol... that's actually exactly what i liked about it...

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Took some to a "Fondue Date Night" last night. ... my wife and I were the only people under 30 (23 and 22). Anyway, the beer was a hit. One lady liked my barley wine more (it was dry-hopped, so tasted a bit like an IPA). Other than that, the CCA was truly impressive.

 

[Kayos]

This is my next brew.....with all the talk and batches made, has anyone hit on any significant changes that have made a huge difference? The vanilla and the lactose amounts are all best right from the original recipe? It seems like I remember reading the vanilla not adding any flavor when added to the boil, correct? I think I will just add it before bottling.

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

I followed the original recipe almost exactly. I used Safale 04 yeast though.. I think, might have been Safale 56 though. Pretty sure it was 04. Anyway, the vanilla and lactose amounts were perfect!

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

After more aging, we had some yesterday. The tastes mellowed together perfectly, you get a definate caramel and vanilla taste... However, it's not a beer you want to drink more than 1 or 2 of. Goes good with desserts too...