Cream Ale Cream of Three Crops (Cream Ale)

[Passload]

Today is Saturday the 5th of July. I just tapped this beer. My buddy Phil and the neighbors have all come over for this tapping. They were all here for the brew day of this beer. First reaction from the neighbor that only drinks Bud Light was, "Man, this is better that Bud Light. This has flavor! And it is soooo smooth." Phil, the one that I introduced to brewing that day, said, "This is some good beer. It tastes like beer...but with flavor." So, in closing I will post some pics of the beer, and I have to say I have converted two main stream drinkers into wanting to try more homebrew.

Great Lawn Mower Beer.

It is very clear the glass is frosted.

 

[SporkD2]

I will have my taste soon!

 

[Passload]

I will have my taste soon!

Yes, yes you will.

 

[BierMuncher]

Today is Saturday the 5th of July. I just tapped this beer. My buddy Phil and the neighbors have all come over for this tapping. They were all here for the brew day of this beer. First reaction from the neighbor that only drinks Bud Light was, "Man, this is better that Bud Light. This has flavor! And it is soooo smooth." Phil, the one that I introduced to brewing that day, said, "This is some good beer. It tastes like beer...but with flavor." So, in closing I will post some pics of the beer, and I have to say I have converted two main stream drinkers into wanting to try more homebrew.

Great Lawn Mower Beer.

It is very clear the glass is frosted.

Sweet looking beer.

This can definitely turn in to a mass-brew beer once your friends get a hold of it.

 

[nikko]

can i use yellow rice i don't have any minute rice on me is it important enough to go out and buy the minute rice?

thanks.

 

[niquejim]

can i use yellow rice i don't have any minute rice on me is it important enough to go out and buy the minute rice?

thanks.

Minute rice can be mashed as is . All others need a cereal mash before the mash.

 

[Reverend JC]

BM-


My sisters wedding is in 4 weeks not the 8 i had thought it to be. I need a beer and not a Hefe. Will this bad boy be ready if i chill and the force keg 3 days before hand? needs to be ready by Aug. 10th.

 

[BierMuncher]

BM-


My sisters wedding is in 4 weeks not the 8 i had thought it to be. I need a beer and not a Hefe. Will this bad boy be ready if i chill and the force keg 3 days before hand? needs to be ready by Aug. 10th.

That's plenty of time...I'm doing a batch this weekend for an August 2nd public event.

The corn/rice mix in this really clears very quickly.

I'd say...two weeks primary, rack to secondary with gelatin for 2 days (that's all it will take for 98% of the yeast to fall out)...then in to a keg and chill until the event.

That short stint in the secondary with gelatin will make a big difference.

Here's mine from last week after just 24 hours...notice you can see the imprint of the bucket behind the carboy.:

 

[Reverend JC]

Great!. Thanks for the quick reply. I have two packets of safale 05 sitting at home.

Im going to use polenta i think and do a cereal mash for the corn. The flaked maize at my LHBS is silly expensive. .......................wait for it.................waaaaiiiiittttttt. opps there it is, my laziness has just dictated that i buy the $2.50 flaked corn at the LHBS.

lol, that didnt take long. no cereal mash for me now!

 

[Big10Seaner]

Any way to do this with extract? I've about had it with extract- I've got the process down good and I'm making some great tasting beers, yet I feel very held back when I look at some of these recipes. I foresee myself buying an all grain setup very soon!

 

[ISUBrew79]

I brewed a batch of this beer this Sunday. I was shooting for a half recipe (5.75 gallons). I halved the amounts of all the grains from the original recipe for 11.5 gallons. BeerTools Pro calculated I should have gotten an OG of 1.040 at 75% efficiency. To my surprise, I ended up with 5.4 gallons of 1.050 wort post-boil. I can attribute some of the higher than expected gravity to a slightly low post-boil volume, but I must have gotten much better than 75% efficiency. I believe the efficiency increase is due to a finer crush on the grain. On this batch, I crushed the 2-row using my buddy's Barley Crusher, and I definitely got a finer crush than my LHBS provides. Hopefully, this brew isn't too underhopped. I think it will be fine as it isn't a hoppy style and should be well-attenuated also.

 

[Reverend JC]

Well-

Just got finished and cleaned up after brewing this beer.

I did decide to go with the grits and do a cereal mash. next time i should start before 4 in the afternoon when i decide to attemp a new techinique.

Shoot for 11 gallons at 1.044 and nailed it.

Dropped in two packet of US-05 and turned the temp controller to 65.

Cream of 3 crops here i come!

 

[wolf08gang]

I've got a couple of ounces of Czech Saaz @ 2.3 AA, looking for a home. Do you think that it would work for this one?

I'm thinking about brewing this one this weekend as my first 10 gallon batch.

 

[BierMuncher]

I've got a couple of ounces of Czech Saaz @ 2.3 AA, looking for a home. Do you think that it would work for this one?

I'm thinking about brewing this one this weekend as my first 10 gallon batch.

That sounds like a perfect hop.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Darn - After looking at passload's pictures I'm wondering if this is gonna carb slowly. I haven't anything other than Edworts cider thats been this clear.

What you guys think, rack the 2ndary to the bottling bucket and not worry about dusting up the yeast a little or will it carb even clear as a bell?

I can see through the carboy....

 

[wolf08gang]

That sounds like a perfect hop.

Can I just mention that every time I ask you a question, you reply in less than 10 minutes? Seriously, you are just so stinkin' helpful.

Thanks.

 

[davebl]

I'm 15 minutes into the boil on this. Having made BM's Centennial Blonde, I can't see how this couldn't be a winner.

Mash went great, hit my numbers dead on. I have never used corn or rice in a brew. Tasting the wort I noticed a sweetness that was different from barley, and I liked it.

Making a 5.5G batch, I used 6lbs of 2 Row, 2lbs of Flaked Maize and 1lb of Minute White Rice, sparged slowly and remained problem free. I'm pretty excited about this.

I can't decide on US-05 or Notty though....

 

[Schlenkerla]

Go with US-05. Mine has cleared really well.

 

[Reverend JC]

I just checked this morning before work and yeast was pitched sunday night at 10:30, dry mind you, and it is fully rocking this morn.

I was concerned i didnt aerate enough but the dry yeasts are supposed to not need aeration any way. oh well.

will dump yeast this weekend and rack in another week and let you know how it turns out.

 

[BierMuncher]

Can I just mention that every time I ask you a question, you reply in less than 10 minutes? Seriously, you are just so stinkin' helpful.

Thanks.

SWMBO would just say I'm so stinkin.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Bump....

Darn - After looking at passload's pictures I'm wondering if this is gonna carb slowly. I haven't anything other than Edworts cider thats been this clear.

What you guys think, rack the 2ndary to the bottling bucket and not worry about dusting up the yeast a little or will it carb even clear as a bell?

I can see through the carboy

 

[BierMuncher]

What you guys think, rack the 2ndary to the bottling bucket and not worry about dusting up the yeast a little or will it carb even clear as a bell?

Clear wort doesn't mean yeast-free wort.

Rack it to a bottling bucket and keep the wand about 1" off the bottom (maybe use a paint strainer to filter even further). When the level gets low...prop up the "away" side of the carboy so the wort pools down toward the cane.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Thanks BierMuncher. The sucker is now in 19 1-Ltr bottles. The invisible yeasts are about to have a fiesta on the dextrose. This should be a primo beer for my HB Club's Convert A Bud Drinker (CABD).

I tasted this again and its pretty damn drinkable even warm and flat. I juiced this with a little extra sugar. This will be the Champagne of Beers!!!

If we do a blind taste test at this party, I wonder how many people could ID their Fav BMC or the HB?

• Old Milwaukee
• Michelob
• Miller High Life
• Budweiser
• Coors
• Pabst Blue Ribbon
• Miller Genuine Draft
• BierMunchers' Cream of 3 Crop Ale

$hit - How many pick the HB as the best tasting?!!! :rockin:

I can see the Hard-Core Bud Light Drinker saying the 3-Crop is their beer.

I bet they will get about ~3 of oz. each brew and by the time they are done they will be b'fuddled as to which was even their brew.

 

[Passload]

Well, today is July 16, 2008. Just sitting here in the summer heat drinking the last of my Cream of Three Crops. This beer is even better 5 weeks from first tap. This beer has converted 4 people to trying more homebrew which is good and bad at the same time. I, myself, find this beer to be my house ale. From now on, only 10 gallon batches will be brewed. In closing I will post a few pics of this wonderful home brew.

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[KingBrianI]

I plan on brewing this recipe this weekend for my first all grain batch. I just downloaded the trial version of Beersmith but I'm having trouble trying to figure out my water volumes and temps. I only have a 9 gallon brew kettle so I wanted to aim for a batch in the 5-6 gallon range. I've halved the recipe to 6 lb. 2-row, 1 lb corn and 0.5 lb rice (and I'm thinking about throwing in 0.25 lb crystal 40L, bad idea?). Anyway, I know the mash should be done at 152 F but what temp should I aim for on the sparge? And how much water should I use to sparge? If it makes a difference, I have a 10 gallon rubbermaid cooler with a false bottom for my MLT. Thanks for any help!

 

[davebl]

Instead of doing a secondary, what if I did a 14-20 day primary, then crash cooled and went straight to keg. I think this beer is so light it wouldn't hurt it to miss a secondary, and the cold crash should drop whatever yeasties are left floating to the bottom.

What do you think BM?

 

[BierMuncher]

Instead of doing a secondary, what if I did a 14-20 day primary, then crash cooled and went straight to keg. I think this beer is so light it wouldn't hurt it to miss a secondary, and the cold crash should drop whatever yeasties are left floating to the bottom.

What do you think BM?

That's what I did with my first batch and it was crystal. Of course, I always add a 1/2 tsp of dissolved gelatin to the keg when I rack.

The last batch I secondaried because I'm transporting to a party and don't want to kick up the least bit of sediment that will fall during conditioning.

 

[badsneaker]

I visited my HBS this afternoon and came back with 1/2 recipe ingredients ala Aubie Stout: 4# pale malt, 2.5# flaked maize, 1# flaked rice. The HBS didn't have Crystal hops, but I settled for Argentinian Cascade (3.5%) and Williamette leaf (4.3%), and I had to substitute WLP001 for Safale-05 (which I like better but they were out of) (I know, I need to start harvesting my yeast but I haven't got that far in brewing yet). My first order of business tomorrow morning is brewing this. My plan is 7 days in Primary, 14 in Secondary, and 3-5 weeks in bottles (I haven't graduated to kegs yet!).

What I find interesting is that BeerSmith calculates this recipe to be 43 calories/pint, which is 32+ in 12 oz bottles. My goodness, Bud Lite is, what, 110 cal/12oz, Miller Lite is 96 cal/12oz, Coors 102 cal/12oz. BierMuncher, I think you're on to something. Look at all the weight we're not gaining by drinking your beer!

It is going to be interesting to see how it comes out with the substitutions. If I get anything like the results I've been reading, I will be happy

 

[BierMuncher]

I visited my HBS this afternoon and came back with 1/2 recipe ingredients ala Aubie Stout: 4# pale malt, 2.5# flaked maize, 1# flaked rice. The HBS didn't have Crystal hops, but I settled for Argentinian Cascade (3.5%) and Williamette leaf (4.3%), and I had to substitute WLP001 for Safale-05 (which I like better but they were out of) (I know, I need to start harvesting my yeast but I haven't got that far in brewing yet). My first order of business tomorrow morning is brewing this. My plan is 7 days in Primary, 14 in Secondary, and 3-5 weeks in bottles (I haven't graduated to kegs yet!).

What I find interesting is that BeerSmith calculates this recipe to be 43 calories/pint, which is 32+ in 12 oz bottles. My goodness, Bud Lite is, what, 110 cal/12oz, Miller Lite is 96 cal/12oz, Coors 102 cal/12oz. BierMuncher, I think you're on to something. Look at all the weight we're not gaining by drinking your beer!

It is going to be interesting to see how it comes out with the substitutions. If I get anything like the results I've been reading, I will be happy

Beersmith uses the "actual" gravity points off to the right to determine the calories. Plug in the correct numbers and see what you get.

If this were a 43 calorie beer...I'd make a fortune.

 

[badsneaker]

Beersmith uses the "actual" gravity points off to the right to determine the calories. Plug in the correct numbers and see what you get.

That figures! I haven't used BeerSmith that long.

Thanks!