Cream Ale Carrot Cream Ale

[madcowbrewing]

Recipe Type

All Grain

Yeast

WLP 001

Yeast Starter

Yes

Batch Size (Gallons)

5.5

Original Gravity

1.045

Final Gravity

1.008

Boiling Time (Minutes)

75

IBU

20.2

Color

4.9

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

14

Tasting Notes

Should taste like a light bodied beer with a touch of carrots, four crops?

Brewed up a variation of Biermunchers three crops
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=66503

I added carrots. Process was to boil 8.5 cut up carrots in 2 gallons of water, later to be added to the mash, both water and the carrots. After close to an hour, boil the carrots until soft then separate the liquid. Add liquid to the first strike water and the carrots to the grain.
7 lbs. Pale malt
12 oz. Flaked Corn
12 oz Minute Rice
8 oz. Honey at flame out

Mash like normal at 150, sparge like normal and continue on to the boil. I use the mash with the carrots for dog treats.

Just finished this boil and just hit the fermenter.

 

[JJack887]

How did turn out? I was thinking of a carrot beer and using mashed carrots in the mash.

 

[madcowbrewing]

Still in primary. Checking gravity tonight. Been fermenting at 64-65, raised it a touch yesterday on day 3 to 67.

 

[madcowbrewing]

Checked gravity, after 3 days, at 1.008, doing a rest at 70-72 degrees to drive out the last points. I am guessing it will get to 1.006. It will get a little higher in alcohol then I wanted, but first try in. It was still pretty cloudy, taste was great for a cream ale, could drink it all day long. Carrots was there but you really had to try to find it. Next time I will increase the amount maybe to 12 pounds. If you are going to mash the carrots, I highly suggest using rice hulls to prevent a stuck mash.

 

[madcowbrewing]

8 days grain to glass..... A really great cream ale, could drink it all day. Needs more carrot though for it to mean anything. The honey gives it a nice touch of sweetness.