Honey cream ale thoughts

[Wahoo87]

So I decided to brew a honey cream ale. This is my first non kit brew. I was just wondering before brew day what everyone thought.

2lbs honey malt

6.6lbs golden light LME

1oz cascade

2lbs raw honey

1/2oz hallertau

Safale us-05

I don't know it it will give me too much of a honey taste or if the honey will stay in the background and not overpower the beer


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[FarmerTed]

I've done an orange blossom cream ale (twice), and it's turned out really well. I'd recommend using orange blossom honey. You will definitely know it's there. I'd also 86 the honey malt. Two pounds is a crap-load, and I personally wouldn't want to muddle the honey flavor with it. You could add some carapils if you want to give the beer some body. Otherwise, I think your recipe looks fine, although if you use orange blossom honey, you don't really need an aroma hop. The honey will provide a really nice floral and lightly citrusy aroma and flavor. I've added the honey at flame-out, and into the fermenter at the end of primary, and got good and very similar results using either method. I think it's a lot easier to add it at flame-out, as it's a pain in the ass to dissolve a lot of honey in a small amount of warm to hot water for the addition to primary. Measuring the OG is also a lot easier if you add the honey at flameout.

 

[Wahoo87]

The orange blossom is a great idea maybe I will try that. Thanks for the suggestions


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[BMWillis]

Orange blossom honey for sure.

I brewed up a Honey Wheat a while ago with 2.25# of the Orange blossom honey, a little Carapils and a little Honey malt to steep (I wanna say it was 8oz. of both), and it turned out AWESOME.

 

[redwing_al]

Yesterday I brewed a Orange Honey Cream Ale with locally procured wildflower honey and sweet dried orange peel. I did a partial mash with Wyeast. It was bubbling away after about 8 hours. fingers crossed it turns out, but it had a very sweet smell and sweet wort!

good luck with yours!

 

[BrewWNC]

Honey malt is awesome. 2 lbs may be a little much but I say try it.

 

[copyright1997]

Honey malt is awesome. 2 lbs may be a little much but I say try it.

Two pounds of honey malt on a 5 gallon batch is too much. I did something similar using the cream of there crops recipe as a base last year... I still have most of it in my basement...

Honey malt is great stuff but should be used sparingly. Take a look at Kabe's award winning apa for a good example of using honey malt.

Eta: here's the link to the Kabe's secret recipe: www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/bbd-brewing-kabes-secret-apa-139831/


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