Recipe Help...F'ed up my Grain Bill!

[LongDukDong]

Whats the Happs HBT!

I need some help with a grain bill i messed up when i placed my order and hope someone out there in HBT land can help creating a new recipe or if i can proceed with the botched order.

I was getting ready to brew the Vanilla Cream Ale recipe that's been floating around on the boards and placed my order and realized i F!@$%# up the grain bill. I was going to go ahead and brew it but think the additional crystal malt is going to throw it off.

What do you guys think? Here's what i got...

7lbs Pale
3 lbs Wheat
2 lbs Crystal 60 <<< Supposed to be 1lb

If that is to much crystal malt, then what can i do with this pre mixed grain? I was thinking an Imperial Porter or Stout if i added a little of this or that, but wanted some advice from a seasoned brewer out there.

Thanks in Advance!

The Donger

 

[509inc]

I think you should just brew it. You may have mistakenly came up with the perfect grain bill.

If you don't have brewing software you can use http://beercalculus.hopville.com/recipe to figure out how the extra grain will change the aspects of the beer.

 

[wildwest450]

I think you should just brew it. You may have mistakenly came up with the perfect grain bill.

I hardly think that Vanilla cream ales have 2 pounds of crystal 60 in them.

Add a buttload of hops and make an IPA, otherwise it's gonna be sweet. blech.

 

[devilishprune]

Put all that crystal into a large, graduated container (like a pitcher or a big measuring cup). See how much volume it takes up and just divide it in half. That way you can have more or less a pound in your batch.

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

Problem with that is all his grains are mixed.
I'd go with wildwest on this one.

 

[RJSkypala]

Mash low too.

 

[NCBeernut]

Don't cream ales by definition have corn in the grist? Either way, with 2 lb of crystal malt, it definitely moves out of the cream ale style. It still might brew a decent pale ale if you mash low. I would leave out the vanilla personally, since the beer will be a little sweeter than you anticipated, but that is your call.

 

[dirty_martini]

I'd say add 1.5-2 lbs of your choice of dark malts and go stout with it. That would take the percentage of the total bill down in the teens and you just may end up with a sweeter stout. At least the dark malts will cut the crystal sweetness and the body left behind by the crystal is good for a stout. It's also gonna end up in the 6.5-7% range which pits right in that American stout category. With the crystal and wheat, you should have head for days.

 

[prosper]

double up the base malts and make a double-batch

 

[the_bird]

Don't cream ales by definition have corn in the grist? Either way, with 2 lb of crystal malt, it definitely moves out of the cream ale style. It still might brew a decent pale ale if you mash low. I would leave out the vanilla personally, since the beer will be a little sweeter than you anticipated, but that is your call.

Cheesefood's Vanilla "Cream Ale" has much more in common with cream soda than with a true cream ale (which yes, usually features corn as an adjunct). Hell, based on everything I've heard of that beer, I'm a little surprised there ISN'T two pounds of crystal malt in it, the accounts I've heard of it (never made it myself) describes it as being terribly, terribly sweet and only vaguely beer-like. Nothing at all like a true cream ale.

 

[dcp27]

Hop it into the 30-40s and just call it an american amber. or you can wait til yoop finishes and see how that comes out and go from there: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/american-amber-192478/