Cream Ale Fizzy Yellow Beer

[Yooper]

Recipe Type

All Grain

Yeast

S-05

Yeast Starter

No

Batch Size (Gallons)

5

Original Gravity

1.054

Final Gravity

1.008 (too low!)

Boiling Time (Minutes)

60

IBU

21

Color

4.8 SRM

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

14 days at 62

Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

Kegged and cold

Tasting Notes

A huge hit with the BMC crowd! Nice white head, clear and crisp but with flavor.

7 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 70.00 %
3 lbs Pilsner (2 Row) UK (1.0 SRM) Grain 30.00 %
0.50 oz Pearle [8.40 %] (60 min) Hops 14.4 IBU
0.50 oz Tettnang [4.20 %] (45 min) Hops 6.6 IBU
0.50 oz Tettnang [4.20 %] (0 min) Hops -
1 Pkgs Safale US-05 (Fermentis #US-05) Yeast-Ale

Mash at 150 degrees for 60-75 minutes. Sparge to get boil volume. Boil for 60 minutes, and rapidly chill to 62 degrees. Add yeast, and ferment at 62 for 14 days. Rack into secondary, or keg, and crash cool until clear.

This beer was not originally mine- I found it somewhere here, but can't find the thread of who posted it. Will the real recipe-czar please confess? I made a few changes, to match my supplies, but other yeast strains can be used. German Ale yeast, at a cool ale temperature, would be wonderful. This beer tastes like a more flavorfull BMC.

Beersmith file: View attachment fyb.bsm

Due to my long and low temp mash, it finished at 1.008, lower than my goal of about 1.010-1.012. I thought it might be too dry, but it actually turned out perfect!

 

[Saccharomyces]

Vienna FTW! Gawd, this must be amazingly good. I'll have to give this a try in my quest to find a perfect thirst quencher for summer. :rockin:

 

[Yooper]

Vienna FTW! Gawd, this must be amazingly good. I'll have to give this a try in my quest to find a perfect thirst quencher for summer. :rockin:

It was wonderful. I "lagered" it for a couple of weeks in the keg and then "jumped" it into a new keg so there wouldn't be any sediment in it when I took it out to the lake. (Black QD, beerline, black QD- pushed with co2).

It worked perfectly- crystal clear (using only whirlfloc) and no sediment to offend non-homebrew drinker's sensibilities. Everyone loved this beer. My homebrew ale loving husband, and my lager loving friends, all sucked it down with gusto. I liked it, too. It's got the basic taste of a crisp German lager, but with a bit more flavor.

 

[enderwig]

This beer was not originally mine- I found it somewhere here, but can't find the thread of who posted it. Will the real recipe-czar please confess? I made a few changes, to match my supplies, but other yeast strains can be used.

I think it might be my recipe you are referring to Maltier,Hoppier, Yellow Beer!
If so, it is a fine beer, pleases even the uninitiated!
The german ale yeast is what I used, also one more hop addition at 20 mins.
Anyway, glad someone else in the world enjoyed it!

 

[Yooper]

I think it might be my recipe you are referring to Maltier,Hoppier, Yellow Beer!
If so, it is a fine beer, pleases even the uninitiated!
The german ale yeast is what I used, also one more hop addition at 20 mins.
Anyway, glad someone else in the world enjoyed it!

YES! That's it! I changed it a bit (no 20 minute hops and slightly different malt bill) and used different yeast. I KNEW I wasn't crazy, and had read it on here recently!!!!!!

The beer turned out great! Thanks for posting it, and then allowing me to post it in the database. It really is a "bridge" for BMCers to try homebrew. Clean, clear, yellow, well-carbonated and crisp, it looks like a typical fizzy yellow beer. But it has some flavor! Not too hoppy, not too malty, it won't scare away commercial beer drinkers, but it will please craft drinkers as well.

Great recipe! Thanks.

 

[fastricky]

I'm gonna brew this one in the next week, excited!

 

[Poobah58]

Thanks for the recipe. I'm going to do this using American Lager Wyeast 2035 Fizzy Yellow Lager

 

[chri5]

I'm brewing a slightly altered version of this on Friday.

7lbs Vienna
2.5lbs Pale Malt
0.5lbs Munich

0.25oz Magnum (12.2% AA) - 60
0.75oz Tettnang (3.3%AA) - 45
0.5oz Tettnang (3.3%AA) - 0

US-05

Since my LHBS considers Vienna a specialty grain, and Pilsner almost a specialty grain, I decided to save a few bucks and go with regular pale malt. I figure the little bit of Munich will give it a nice little bit of maltiness i prefer in my fizzy yellow beers.

The malt bill for this was 50% more than on the 7.8% Amber i made a month or so ago! If this recipe goes over well, I'll need to consider buying Vienna in bulk.

Edit - Hit an OG of 1.050, FG of 1.011. Warm sample tasted quite good. Going to be kegging today (8/16)

 

[Yooper]

That sounds good!

I made it again, with the same recipe, and it's a big hit with my Corona-loving best friend. It's still a bit "much" for her, but she will gladly drink it.

 

[Yooper]

I'm brewing a slightly altered version of this on Friday.

7lbs Vienna
2.5lbs Pale Malt
0.5lbs Munich

0.25oz Magnum (12.2% AA) - 60
0.75oz Tettnang (3.3%AA) - 45
0.5oz Tettnang (3.3%AA) - 0

US-05

Since my LHBS considers Vienna a specialty grain, and Pilsner almost a specialty grain, I decided to save a few bucks and go with regular pale malt. I figure the little bit of Munich will give it a nice little bit of maltiness i prefer in my fizzy yellow beers.

The malt bill for this was 50% more than on the 7.8% Amber i made a month or so ago! If this recipe goes over well, I'll need to consider buying Vienna in bulk.

Edit - Hit an OG of 1.050, FG of 1.011. Warm sample tasted quite good. Going to be kegging today (8/16)

I'd like to know how this came out! I love Munich malt.

 

[MartyB]

Man this is good stuff.

Tested a bottle of my batch last night. Just 2 weeks in the bottle, but carbing nicely.

I added the remaining 1/2oz of Perle with the 1/2 of tett at flame-out for a little more hop flavoring. WOW!

The first batch is still conditioning, and I'm checking my bottle supply to brew another batch before the weather gets bad. This recipe is going to be a regular brew.

 

[bkov]

i dont have to much experience with vienna yet. what do you think making this all vienna and no pilsner? or subbing the pilsner with 2row? (because i have a sack of vienna and a sack of 2row but no pils)

 

[enderwig]

i dont have to much experience with vienna yet. what do you think making this all vienna and no pilsner? or subbing the pilsner with 2row? (because i have a sack of vienna and a sack of 2row but no pils)

I've made it all vienna and it's awesome. The only reason I didn't go all vienna the first time was because I had vienna that had to be used up but not quite enough for a batch so I supplemented with pils.

 

[CA-LT1]

Ok, going on my to brew list

 

[Lilahblossom]

I made this last year but unfortunately I experienced a massive fruit fly problem brought in by strawberries and lost the whole thing. I'm going to try this again. I see that brewmasters has the recipe you can just buy. I may do that. Thanks for the recipe.

 

[CA-LT1]

Huh? How did the flies get into your beer?

 

[Lilahblossom]

Fruit flies love beer. They got in under the lid. I had my beer in a five gal. bucket settling out but the lid wasn't tight fitting. I now keep a can of non toxic spray in the kitchen.

 

[BrewSkies]

Made this recipe a few weeks ago for a shrimp boil we're hosting for the 4th. I went went with all Vienna malt. After a week in the keg, just pulled a sample- this is good stuff! Carbed and ready just in time for the party! My fiancee is a Bud Light Lime type of gal, and even she likes this one (a first for my homebrew). Thanks!

 

[Lilahblossom]

I ordered your recipe from Brewmasters. It should be in today. I'm using Wyeast's special Rasenmaher yeast. I'm anxious to give this another go round. Thankyou Yooper!

 

[smakudwn]

Can i replace the Vienna with Munich?

 

[passedpawn]

Can i replace the Vienna with Munich?

No, you'll end up with an Octoberfest.

 

[MeanGreen]

If you went 50/50 or 60/40 on the vienna/pils would I need to move to 90 min boil

 

[eulipion2]

Brewed this grain bill with Bravo hops, to about the same specs. Delicious, malty with great balance from the hops. Finished at 1.012. My sample was room temp, and only been in the bottle a week, but it was great! Maybe not as traditional-tasting as with the original hop bill, but I'm certainly not complaining.

 

[Yooper]

Brewed this grain bill with Bravo hops, to about the same specs. Delicious, malty with great balance from the hops. Finished at 1.012. My sample was room temp, and only been in the bottle a week, but it was great! Maybe not as traditional-tasting as with the original hop bill, but I'm certainly not complaining.

I've never used bravo hops. But your thread bump reminds me that I have to make this again. I'm putting this down for my very next brew!

 

[crash1292]

waiting for mine to carb up.
added a extra pound of each grain
og 1.072
fg 1.010

 

[CA-LT1]

Hey crash, be sure to let us know how it ends up. At 8.1% ABV, I think you just made Steel Reserve ;-)

 

[StinkyVp]

Bought 2 of these yesterday. Will follow original recipe.
3rd all grain ever (13th total). It takes me like all day to get done.
BAIB on the stove and dunk sparge (whats that called?) in brew pot. It seems to work out pretty well. I will take measurements this time and see what my efficiency is. Never done that.

BIAB seems to work fine. What is the down side?
What's better a cooler MT or doing BAIB?
I already had some turkey fryer pots and the bag is pretty cheap. I'd probably have to invest around $100 to get a MT going. I was looking for the 10 gal rubbermaid water cooler. What's better that or the rectangle cooler?

This Fizzy Yellow seems like it will not be that light. More of a Bud than a Bud Light? Is that right?
This is twice as much grain as the Miller Lite Clone I did last weekend. It may be more than I'm looking for as I'm looking for a pretty light tasty beer. Can't wait to find out.

 

[CGVT]

I brewed this on Aug 28th and cracked a bottle today after only one week in the bottle. It has a little bit of chill haze because I didn't have any Whirlflock, but it is pretty clear over-all. It is a bit undercarbed because I couldn't wait to taste it, but it is very tasty. I'm a bit of a hop head so this is not my favorite style, but now I have GOOD beer to serve to my less hop-enlightened friends.:rockin:

I believe that this may be a gate-way beer

Thanks for another great recipe, Yooper.

 

[Yooper]

Thanks for the photo! We still like this beer and enjoy having it around for our non-craft beer drinking friends, as well as a thirst quencher lawnmower beer.

 

[StinkyVp]

I am brewing my other batch of this today. My friend gave me what I think is around 2 OZ of fresh hops from his yard (picked Thurs). What are my options to add to this recipe?