Brew Day 03/07/06 -- Cream Ale

[mysterio]

I was in Canada for my hols so I devised a couple of recipes when I was over there. I'd never heard of cream ale before, which is fairly common there, and it was great for hot weather drinking so I'm going to have a go based on the style guidelines. It's basically a lightly hopped 'lager' brewed with an ale yeast, with some corn to lighten the body and add some creamyness. I used corn in my last ESB and I really enjoyed it! I'm brewing this for a party so hopefully it will be a crowd-pleaser.

So here's what I'm brewing today:

Based on 70% efficiency and for 5 UK gallons, shooting
for an SG of around 1.045 to 1.050.

Pale ale malt (maris otter) - 9 Lb
Carapils - 0.75Lb
Flaked Corn - 1.5 Lb
Munich Malt - 6oz
Gypsum - 1tsp
Mashed at 66C/151F for 90minutes, 1.5Qt:1Lb
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Hallertau Hersbruker 1oz (60mins)
Hallertau Hersbruker 0.5oz (15mins)
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WL007 Dry English Ale yeast.

Going to ferment it at the cool end of the range and maybe cold condition for a week or two. Sorry for the pounds and ounces I designed it in pro-mash!!

[Bigster]

How did your brew day go, mysterio..

I can barely summon the energy to make it in to my air conditioned office let alone consider a brew in this heat

[mysterio]

Really well thanks. The WLP007 dry english ale yeast started within a couple of hours!

My efficiency shot up for some reason too.. I think it was the slightly thinner mash.