Frosted Flakes cream ale experiment

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

sounds like something for the cider forum? maybe add them to apple juice with alpha, and gluco amylases?

edit: and are cocoa puffs a collectible now? seems like all i find?

Basic brewing radio did count chocula

 

[Newsman]

sounds like something for the cider forum? maybe add them to apple juice with alpha, and gluco amylases?

Hmmm. Might have to get a box and try it. Before or after te V8 Splash, though?

edit: and are cocoa puffs a collectible now? seems like all i find?

No. Boo Berry is a seasonal (i.e. Halloween) cereal. Count Chocula is as well.

 

[bracconiere]

Well my frosted flake brown ale is mashing now!


smells like hot corn flake cereal really...getting what i think will be good conversion, judging from some quick draws from mash tun....

 

[Stormcrow]

Well my frosted flake brown ale is mashing now!


smells like hot corn flake cereal really...getting what i think will be good conversion, judging from some quick draws from mash tun....

What percentage of the grist did the frosted flakes make up in yours?

 

[bracconiere]

What percentage of the grist did the frosted flakes make up in yours?

~16.5lbs pale (damn scale!), 8ozs chocolate malt, 55oz box of corn flakes......10 gallon batch. sparging like a champ right now! thought it might be a concern.


P.S. mine had the seal of approval from tony, and they were "Gre-aa-te"

 

[bracconiere]

well as an update, if you decide to use corn flakes....boil them first, made no gravity difference for me..... (still smells good though)

 

[Stormcrow]

well as an update, if you decide to use corn flakes....boil them first, made no gravity difference for me..... (still smells good though)

That's crazy. I just mashed mine like normal and wound up with higher gravity than expected. I did crush them by hand in a plastic bag first and ran them through the mill with the regular malt just for kicks, but I doubted that was actually doing anything.

 

[bracconiere]

That's crazy. I just mashed mine like normal and wound up with higher gravity than expected. I did crush them by hand in a plastic bag first and ran them through the mill with the regular malt just for kicks, but I doubted that was actually doing anything.

i could have f'd up my sparge or something....first runnings were good. not like i'll cry at bed time over it, but yeah...i got a pre-boil of 1.043..11.3 gallons, which beersmith tells me will be a OG of 1.049...so i'm going to have to really frost these flakes to get my 1.060.

 

[RufusBrewer]

well as an update, if you decide to use corn flakes....boil them first, made no gravity difference for me..... (still smells good though)

You literally did a ceral mash/

https://winning-homebrew.com/cereal-mash.html

 

[bracconiere]

You literally did a ceral mash/

https://winning-homebrew.com/cereal-mash.html

if only i could laugh twice as hard! (and i'm sure it'll make good breakfast beer! )

 

[bracconiere]

that's what i ended up with my corn flake brew....i got some oat malt ready for the kiln, hoping to get it in the oven today, and brewing tomorrow, using my free to me mod'd dryer to deculm it.....told my boss to grab me a box of frosted flakes at costco, so this is going to be a brew with 100% oat malt as base malt, 60ozs frosted flakes, a slower sparge....

WILL the FUN never end! oh yeah, i plan on doing my first repitch of a $60 500g brick of apex ale yeast.....

(but i haven't had a bowl of corn flakes in, well since childhood. and had a bowl before they go into the mash, pretty good in milk! i wonder if lactose would be good for something like this? )

 

[Beermeister32]

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that's what i ended up with my corn flake brew....i got some oat malt ready for the kiln, hoping to get it in the oven today, and brewing tomorrow, using my free to me mod'd dryer to deculm it.....told my boss to grab me a box of frosted flakes at costco, so this is going to be a brew with 100% oat malt as base malt, 60ozs frosted flakes, a slower sparge....

WILL the FUN never end! oh yeah, i plan on doing my first repitch of a $60 500g brick of apex ale yeast.....

(but i haven't had a bowl of corn flakes in, well since childhood. and had a bowl before they go into the mash, pretty good in milk! i wonder if lactose would be good for something like this? )

 

[bracconiere]

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that's the way i meant it to look.....

 

[Stormcrow]

Awesome! How was it tastewise? It looks like I'll be brewing mine again sooner than I thought. My brother's been talking it up and has some of our non craft drinking neighbors curious about it.

PS I've never heard of a 100% oat base malt beer. Have you done that before?

 

[bracconiere]

Awesome! How was it tastewise? It looks like I'll be brewing mine again sooner than I thought. My brother's been talking it up and has some of our non craft drinking neighbors curious about it.

PS I've never heard of a 100% oat base malt beer. Have you done that before?

it's good enough for me?


yeah the feed store has been out of barley before...and YES oat malt will self convert, but although during the boil, it smells like a big pot of heavy cream, in the glass cold, it's kinda grassy... i'm curious if it will have enough diastatic power to convert the corn flakes though!

 

[Stormcrow]

We're going for round two, with just minor changes. My brother is so in love with this beer that I'm going to go ahead and make a slightly bigger batch for his upcoming Christmas party. Going for about 4 gallons.

5.5 lbs. Rahr pale malt
1.5 lbs. Great Value Frosted Flakes
8 oz. white wheat malt
.25 oz. Loral hops at 60 minutes.
.25 oz. Loral hops at 15 minutes.
Probably going to use s05 again at 63f.

The corn flakes are 20% of the grain bill this time. After doing some more research on foam, I decided to lose the oats and replace with a little white wheat malt.

I've already milled the grains. The corn flakes like to bridge the roller feed and not go through. So I simply crushed them up as fine as I could with my bare hands, which is very satisfying. Not sure if it matters, but after bracc's bad experience, I wanted to give the barley enzymes the easiest access possible. (And it seemed to work out well for me last time.) I opted not to boil them first because it seems like it shouldn't be necessary with a flaked adjunct.

I might not update as often with this one unless something weird happens.

 

[Stormcrow]

Major update!

All the brewing stuff was already moved into the kitchen for the brew tonight, but I'm stuck hauling soybeans out of the field and working late. That being the case, my wife said she would go ahead and get everything started, but hadn't anticipated how late I'll be. So it looks like this is going to be her very first solo brew! She's nervous, but she's literally helped with every batch I've done, so I'm sure she knows the process better than she thinks she does. I'm sure there will be a few phone calls along the way, but I'm pretty excited to be honest. I imagine it will be easier than trying to talk a passenger through landing a plane. (Not to insinuate that I've ever done that.)

Wish us luck!

 

[bracconiere]

i wanted to think up a caption for this for the meme thread.....

 

[Stormcrow]

Everything went great. I'm not even a little surprised. My wife is just the best. (It will be a little hard to swallow though if this winds up being the best beer to come out of our little brewery yet.)

I actually got home in time for chilling and yeast pitch. I grabbed a refractometer reading that showed 1.054 OG. The software predicted 1.048 with flaked maize entered in the place of the Frosted Flakes; so the numbers are pretty much right where I expected. This one's in the Sovereign where I can't see it. So I guess I'll just be watching the airlock for a few days.

 

[BeerAndTele]

i wanted to think up a caption for this for the meme thread.....


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"Flying a plane is like riding a bike ... it's just a little harder to put baseball cards in the spokes."

 

[bracconiere]

"Flying a plane is like riding a bike ... it's just a little harder to put baseball cards in the spokes."

it makes it easier when their frosted though.....

 

[Miraculix]

Major update!

All the brewing stuff was already moved into the kitchen for the brew tonight, but I'm stuck hauling soybeans out of the field and working late. That being the case, my wife said she would go ahead and get everything started, but hadn't anticipated how late I'll be. So it looks like this is going to be her very first solo brew! She's nervous, but she's literally helped with every batch I've done, so I'm sure she knows the process better than she thinks she does. I'm sure there will be a few phone calls along the way, but I'm pretty excited to be honest. I imagine it will be easier than trying to talk a passenger through landing a plane. (Not to insinuate that I've ever done that.)

Wish us luck!

Great wife!!

 

[Stormcrow]

Great wife!!

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Stormcrow]

Finally got around to bottling this tonight. FG was 1.010 for an apparent ABV of 5.8%. Sample tasted great, but I was also sipping a glass of bourbon, so I'm not going to share any tasting notes beyond saying that it was enjoyable. It was different than the first (a little wheat to replace oats from original recipe, also Loral hops this time instead of Simcoe). Looks like we had good conversion and fermentation. It's official; my wife doesn't need me around to brew. Can't wait till these carb up.

 

[bracconiere]

Finally got around to bottling this tonight. FG was 1.010 for an apparent ABV of 5.8%. Sample tasted great, but I was also sipping a glass of bourbon, so I'm not going to share any tasting notes beyond saying that it was enjoyable. It was different than the first (a little wheat to replace oats from original recipe, also Loral hops this time instead of Simcoe). Looks like we had good conversion and fermentation. It's official; my wife doesn't need me around to brew. Can't wait till these carb up.

if i ever have a bowl of corn flakes again, i am so putting a shot of bourbon in it.....to take off the chill!

 

[Stormcrow]

if i ever have a bowl of corn flakes again, i am so putting a shot of bourbon in it.....to take off the chill!

If I ever get my still built, I'll have to do a frosted flakes moonshine experiment now.

 

[GoodTruble]

Thank you for following through with this thread!

I brew a Red Ale every football season (Chiefs fan), and this year I wanted to add a new ingredient......

I am a bit worried about "BHT" listed as an ingredient, but think it should be okay based on info in this thread.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Thank you for following threw with this thread!

I brew a Red Ale every football season (Chiefs fan), and this year I wanted to add a new ingredient......

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I am a bit worried about "BHT" listed as an ingredient, but think it should be okay based on info in this thread.

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Google says that at low levels BHT has anticancer effects like other antioxidants; not sure what effect it might have on saccharomyces cerivesiae or hop compounds, but it doesn't seem like it will inhibit fermentation.

 

[GoodTruble]

Yeah, from what I read, it doesn't seem like it should cause a problem. And the same seemed to be suggested earlier in this thread.

 

[bracconiere]

And the same to send to be suggested earlier in this thread.

amen! lol