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Bourbon Cream Ale

Bourbon Cream Ale

Specialty Wood-Aged Beer • All Grain • 5.0 gal

John_M

Bourbon grain bill, using wheat and oats, similar to Maker's Mark (70% corn, 16% wheat, 14% barley).

November 23, 2022 pm 06:16pm

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Ingredients (All Grain5.0 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.

  • 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
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

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