Cream Ale Cream of Three Crops (Cream Ale)

[PintOfBitter]

I have my second batch of Cream of Three Crops in the primary since June 6th. I am going out off town on the 25th through July 3rd. do I bottle Weds the 23rd at day 17 or do I transfer to secondary and wait til I get home on July 3rd to bottle. I am leaning towards racking and waitning. What does anyone else think?

I would bottle, but it really depends on how clear your batch is and how clear you want it to be. It's definitely finished fermenting.

 

[mattjmac]

I'm the dope who forgot to add rice to his recipe that posted a while back. This finished really dry @ 1.008. I've never had a beer get that low before so I even checked the calibration on my refractometer using distilled water, and then used the morebeer spreadsheet brix to FG calculator to make sure my math was right. It tastes okay before carbing it up. Anybody know if the lack of rice would cause it to finish so dry? It did start lower due to lacking the rice, but I didn't think the OG necessarily affected the FG on a beer. Thanks.

 

[Reelale]

I'm the dope who forgot to add rice to his recipe that posted a while back. This finished really dry @ 1.008. I've never had a beer get that low before so I even checked the calibration on my refractometer using distilled water, and then used the morebeer spreadsheet brix to FG calculator to make sure my math was right. It tastes okay before carbing it up. Anybody know if the lack of rice would cause it to finish so dry? It did start lower due to lacking the rice, but I didn't think the OG necessarily affected the FG on a beer. Thanks.

Um, check your FG with a hydrometer. I don't think refractometers are accurate for measuring alcohols, just sugars. Although I'm sure there are some conversion equations that can account for it.

EDIT: Wait a minute! The original recipe estimated a FG of 1.005. You're not low.

 

[brettwasbtd]

Ya, for the recipe you aren't low. I also finished at 1.008 (had better efficiency so started at 1.052, so similar attenuation). I believe the 90 min mash also aids with the lower finish

 

[mattjmac]

Thanks guys. I had entered 1.015 into Brewsmith for some reason when I copied over this recipe. Reelale you're right about the alcohol refractometer thing. The morebeer excel spreadsheet calculator uses some formula to compensate for that. I am without a hydrometer ever since SWMBO set a pot on it while it was drying on the counter.

 

[Shamrock28]

Been sitting in the primary for three weeks. Got my kegging system in the mail today. Ready to keg this beauty. Biermuncher, what was your kegging method on this beer. Thought id ask the creater. What PSI did you force carb it at?How long?Shake it at any point?Serving PSI?

 

[hollywoodbrew]

Making this one today!

6.5lbs two-row
1.75lbs corn
.75 rice

.5oz willamette, .5oz crystal

 

[hollywoodbrew]

Oops! I had much better efficiency this time around, I hit 1047 OG, is this still going to be a crisp cream ale? Or will it have more body than anticipated?

 

[agroff383]

Wow I brewed a 5 gallon batch of this for my first brew to be kegged, to be drunk on July 4th. Wow.

It isn't a complex flavorful beer like I usually make. It is just an awesome quaffer. I used Hallertau hops because that's what I had, primary for 10 days at 66F, racked to keg, forced carbed at 30 psi for 4 days at 40F. Bled off gas and served, me and 4 good friends kicked the keg in two hours. 10 gallon batches for this one from now on. What a simple, great recipe that anyone who drinks beer will drink. They don't need to be explained anything, just get a glass and here is some beer.

Thanks BierMuncher!!!

 

[saltydawg]

I'm brewing a 10 gallon batch of this today. Made a few changes to suit my tastes, balanced the corn & rice and added a 5% table sugar to dry it out further. Also made a tincture with Key Lime & Everclear and will add that to the secondary or at kegging time. Should be a nice Lager like lime infused ale, maybe like BLL or a Corona with the lime in it.

Thanks, BM!

 

[Paco]

Brewed 38 liters today. Hoping for the best. So far so good, I like the wort! Feedback in 2-4 weeks...

 

[Daddymem]

Awesome beer! First taste today, carbed up quick since it is only 1 week in the bottle. Crystal clear. Will be on regular rotation. Thanks BM!

 

[SwampassJ]

Just bottled it after 2 months of waiting.

After a month in Primary I transferred it to a secondary for it to clear more and took an OG reading of 1.008 and it tasted a bit sweeter than I wanted it to be. I wanted it to finish at or below 1.005.

Popped it into secondary on top of crushed beano (against all the advice on here because I honestly wanted this to finish as dry as possible and didn't care about residual sugars.)

After waiting 5 weeks it is crystal clear and it finished right at 1.000 with just a tiny hint of sweetness and a light peppery/clove smell that I didn't expect or want. But after drinking the hydro the clove/pepper taste is phenomenal, even though not for style.

1.046 > 1.000

PS. I did a single addition of Spalt as a FWH at 15IBU.

 

[philrose]

Awesome beer! First taste today, carbed up quick since it is only 1 week in the bottle. Crystal clear. Will be on regular rotation. Thanks BM!

Great first post to this website man.

 

[Daddymem]

Not my first post by a longshot, but I'll take the kudos.

 

[SwampassJ]

Great first post to this website man.

You're reading blog postings.

 

[eastendershomebrew]

uhhh oh,,,
well i brewed a 10 gallon batch today and i just realize i only used 10 pounds of 2 row, what do you think will happen. came in at 1.040, what do yuo think?/ also i only used one packet of -05 split between two 5 gallon carboys. i hope that is enough...

 

[BierMuncher]

uhhh oh,,,
well i brewed a 10 gallon batch today and i just realize i only used 10 pounds of 2 row, what do you think will happen. came in at 1.040, what do yuo think?/ also i only used one packet of -05 split between two 5 gallon carboys. i hope that is enough...

Should be fine. a 1040 start is in good range for this beer. The lower amount of dry yeast to start with will take a little time and the slight strain on the yeast may impart some pleasant esters.

Should be just fine.

 

[philrose]

You're reading blog postings.

Damn really? My mistake!


Still a good post. Damn if I don't Love this beer and the folks who brew it. A TOAST TO YOUR GOOD FRIENDS.

 

[drummerguysteve]

Seems like a great recipe! This is now on deck.

 

[yogensha]

I brewed 5 gallons of this less than three weeks ago and I just poured a crystal clear pint. I used grits instead of flaked maize and had a slightly higher ratio of rice. Hopped with Mt. Hood and only boiled for 60 minutes. The wort tasted like sugar water.

As expected, it's very lightly colored and doesn't taste like much I wish I would have hopped it a bit more. I brewed this for a PBR drinker who's staying with me this weekend and I'm sure it won't disappoint!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[SwampassJ]

Using the 5 gallon carboy as a clearing tank made this thing come out like crystal.

 

[yogensha]

Yeah, this beer was a total hit. Maybe got a convert or two. Brewed and consumed in 20 days. Crazy.

 

[eastendershomebrew]

ok, just transferred to my secondaries. I am using 2 corney kegs as secondaries. Gravity came in at about 1.008 after 12 days in the primary, down from 1.040... really alot of sediment still, hoping the secondary will clarify some more. cant wait to sample.

 

[CrookedTail]

I was thinking of trying a noble hopped PM version of this brew. What do you guys think:

Fermentables
2lbs Briess Golden Light DME
2lbs Pale Two-Row malt
2lbs Flaked Corn
.5lb Minute Rice

Hops
1oz Saaz (60 min)
1oz Saaz (30 min)
1oz Saaz (15min)
1oz Hallertau (5 min)

Nottingham Yeast

 

[jgilbreth]

Chalk another convert up to this one. Got a comment from someone who didn't like my APA very much, loved this one.

The carbonation came out a bit wierd for me on this one though. Very, very fine bubbles. Almost looks like champagne in the glass. Anyone seen that before?

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

I made another 10 gallons of this and split it in two buckets. One I used nottingham which fermented out in about 4 days the second I used 05 which is still bubbling away 12 days later and blowing the air lock off three times! I hope it’s just that my basement is a little cool and not a bug in that bucket. Man I miss having my conical free but its enjoying the DFH 120 which is almost done.

 

[patrck17]

Brewed this on Sunday. It was my maiden attempt on my new herms. I bought the grain 4 months ago but got caught up buying a car/house and only recently was able to brew. I am not too worried about all the mistakes I made but I do expect this batch to not be top notch so I won't judge until my next batch, here are a list of the imperfections with the 5 gallon batch:

1. ) Four month old crushed grain, hops, and yeast. All ingredients were in their sealed containers stored at about 75 for the entire time. Wouldn't really think twice about this if the grain wasn't crushed and the hops were in the fridge, but may be iffy otherwise.

2. ) Brewday was going fine till I got to dough in. Don't really have a good feel for appropriate stike temperature with my system so I set the HLT in temp to 160 assuming the grain would bring it down. Well problem was that as soon as I doughed in my falsebottom got stuck and it remained stuck for the entire duration.

3. ) I played around with the false bottom for about 20 minutes before I gave up on it while the mash temp was dropping and rising between 145-150 the whole time, I finally got the temp to about 150 and just left it alone single infusion style. After about an hour I went to start the sparge (which I knew was going to be stuck), so I pumped in about 8 gallons of water on top of it and waited 5-6 hours for the wort to drain through the grainbed, the grain started at about 165 degrees and dropped across the span of the sparge.

4. ) For the entire process I had no reliable method of measuring volume. Kind of just eyeballing everything. After boil I left the entire brewpot covered in the garage. next day I aerated and took a measurement. Got about 1.057 for what looked like 4.5-5 gallons. I topped it up to where the the better bottle started to narrow and pitched. It was chugging away this morning.

So anyways plenty of imperfections that I really am not too worried about. Tasted it and it seems pretty typical, sweet and a little bitter. I won't be surprised if the beer is off but either way I'll be making this one again, though next time with better volume control and especially RICE HULLS.

Happy brewing.

 

[Paco]

I'm almost at the end of the first of two keg now and I love it! I also received good comments at the last home brew club meeting. Most people that come by the house and try it like it a lot as well and that include the American light lager beer drinker. I will brew it again!

Thanks a bunch for the great recipe BierMuncher!

 

[BierMuncher]

...I will brew it again!

Thanks a bunch for the great recipe BierMuncher!

My pleasure. Anything to further the homebrewing crusade.