
Bourbon Cream Ale
Specialty Wood-Aged Beer • All Grain • 5.0 gal
Bourbon grain bill, using wheat and oats, similar to Maker's Mark (70% corn, 16% wheat, 14% barley).
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Ingredients (All Grain, 5.0 gal)
- 1.0 lbs
White Wheat Malt; Briess
White Wheat Malt; Briess
Sweet, malty, wheat, floury flavors. Characteristics & Applications: • Imparts malty flavor not obtainable from raw wheat. • Use with rice hulls to improve lautering and help prevent stuck mash. • White Wheat Malt contributes to foam production and foam stability.
- 1.0 lbs
Red Wheat Malt; Briess
Red Wheat Malt; Briess
Creamy, Sweet, Malty, Wheat, Flour. Characteristics & Applications: • Imparts malty flavor not obtainable from raw wheat. • Use with rice hulls to improve lautering and help prevent stuck mash. • White Wheat Malt contributes to foam production and foam stability.
- 0.75 lbs
Oat Malt; Thomas Fawcett
Oat Malt; Thomas Fawcett
- 0.75 lbs
Golden Naked Oats
Golden Naked Oats
Huskless oat crystal malt. Exotic ingredient for subtle nutty difference. This malt lends a sweet berry-nut flavor. Use at a rate of 4-15% of the total grist to deliver a deep golden hue with light caramel flavors as well as a creamy, satin finish.
- 1.0 lbs
BEST Pilsen Malt; Best Malz
BEST Pilsen Malt; Best Malz
Our first class BEST Pilsen Malt gives beer a fresh and rounded taste. It can be used for all types of light beer. It also forms an excellent “light” foundation for almost all beer specialities. The malt is produced from high-quality two-row-spring barley, which was grown in the best German and European barley regions. The properties of the malt: low protein levels, high extract content, light colour and high enzymatic activity.
- 1.0 lbs
BEST Red X® Malt; Best Malz
BEST Red X® Malt; Best Malz
BEST Red X® is a malt that has become synonymous with red-tinted beers. As it can make at 100% of the grain bill, there is no need to add any other malt. Thanks to its exceptional process reliability and optimal processability, BEST Red X® can be employed to brew consistently fiery beers with intense reddish hues. The malt was designed for a 12°P beer. To retain the red color in stronger beers, some BEST Pilsen Malt should be added to the grain bill due to the higher wort gravity. BEST Red X® complies with the purity guidelines of the German Reinheitsgebot.
- 1.0 lbs
Honey; Gambrinus Malting
Honey; Gambrinus Malting
Honey malt is the best description for European malt known as 'Brühmalz'. Its intense malty sweetness makes it perfect for any specialty beer. It’s color is 20-25 Lov and is without any astringent roast flavors.
- 15.0 lbs
Corn Flaked (Maize)
Corn Flaked (Maize)
Generally a neutral flavor, used to reduce maltiness of beer. Produces beer with a milder, less malty flavor. Uses: Primarily for light Bohemian and Pilsner lagers.
- 1.0 oz
Czech Saaz - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Czech Saaz
Very mild. 'Noble'.
- 0.5 oz
Czech Saaz - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
Czech Saaz
Very mild. 'Noble'.
- 0.5 oz
Czech Saaz - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 0 min
Czech Saaz
Very mild. 'Noble'.
- 1.0 ea
Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - Boil 15 min. (omitted from calculations)
Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss)
Enhanced Irish Moss in convenient tablet form
- 2.0 oz
Oak Wood Chips - Secondary (omitted from calculations)
Oak Wood Chips
Adds a pungent woody flavor. Adding oak chips (which is done in the fermenter, not the mash tun) can add some interesting flavors to your homebrew as well as acting as a surface area to accelerate aging. To provide aged-in-oak flavor. Used in some IPA to simulate flavors from ocean passage to India.
- 2.0 ea
Vanilla (whole bean) - Secondary (omitted from calculations)
Vanilla (whole bean)
Vanilla Beans have a sweet, perfumed aroma with a woody or smoky flavor. Pure Vanilla Extract has a similar aroma. Vanilla Beans are the long, greenish-yellow seed pods of the tropical orchid plant, Vanilla planifolia. Before the plant flowers, the pods are picked, unripe, and cured until they're dark brown. The process takes up to six months.
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White Labs WLP099 Super High Gravity Ale
White Labs WLP099 Super High Gravity Ale
Can ferment up to 25% alcohol. From England.WLP099 Super High Gravity Yeast, Available Nov.-Dec.
Notes
Make 1 gal. starter. Add 1 gal. wort every 2-3 days and oxygenate. Use Fermentis SafBrew HA-18 yeast. Condition on the oak chips and vanilla beans 1-2 weeks.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 33 - Wood Beer
Subcategory: B - Specialty Wood-Aged Beer
Range for this Style | |||
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Original Gravity: | 1.113 | 1.025 - 1.120 | ![]() |
Terminal Gravity: | 1.002 | 0.995 - 1.035 | ![]() |
Color: | 11.5 SRM | 0 - 50 | ![]() |
Alcohol: | 14.8% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | ![]() |
Bitterness: | 23.1 IBU | 0 - 120 | ![]() |