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Cream Ale with Coffee and Vanilla — 4.5

All Grain

Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.043
Final Gravity: 1.009
IBU (Tinseth): 20



Mash

Temperature — 154 °F — 60 min
Mash Out — 167 °F — 10 min

Malts (7 lb 9.7 oz)
5 lb 6.1 oz (67%) — Malt 2-Row — Grain — 1.8 SRM
1 lb 12.6 oz (22.3%) — Corn Yellow, Flaked — Grain — 1.3 SRM
7.1 oz (5.5%) — Rice, Flaked — Grain — 1 SRM

Other (6.7 oz)
6.7 oz (5.2%) — Rice Hulls — Adjunct — 0 SRM

Hops (0.9 oz)
0.5 oz (12 IBU) — Mount Hood 6% — Boil — 60 min
0.4 oz (8 IBU) — Willamette 5% — Boil — 60 min

Miscs
200 g — Ground Coffee (Lavazza Crema e Aroma) — Flameout
3 items — Vanilla Bean (cut and scraped added to vodka for 3 days) — Secondary

Yeast
1 pkg — Fermentis US-05 Safale American 81%

Fermentation
Primary — 65 °F — 14 days
Secondary — 68 °F — 3 days

Water Profile
Ca2+
20
Mg2+
0
Na+
12
Cl-
16
SO42-
31
HCO3-
17

Super enjoyable. Crushed this easily. Could drink a few more to be honest. Great job, might steal the recipe and try myself.

Found this to be very interesting. Reminds me of some sort of tasty square. Or an iced capp. Thanks!

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This was lovely. At first smell I though I had another smoked beer and was disappointed. After the first taste I was incredibly happy I was wrong. The coffee was roasty and chocolatey. Smooth, creamy body, crisp finish. Thanks for sharing

Really enjoyed this one as well. Not one to reach for a cream ale often but this made it so much better! Fantastic balance

This tasted pretty good and seemed well made. Unfortunately mine was pretty flat... the cap came off too easy so I suspect it was due to the twist off bottle. Been there!

This is a fine example of my palate lying to me. I didn’t look at the thread before opening this one and my brain said “chocolate and cherry” when the reality is “coffee and vanilla”. Even now that I know the truth, I still get a fruity, cocoa-y impression from it.

Not a beer I would ever even consider making, so it was fun from that perspective too. Thanks for sharing.


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RubberToe wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 13, 2020 8:48 am

This tasted pretty good and seemed well made. Unfortunately mine was pretty flat... the cap came off too easy so I suspect it was due to the twist off bottle. Been there!

Shit sorry bout that. Didn’t even realize I had a twist bottle in the bunch.

Had this yesterday. I was getting coffee crisp chocolate bar from the nose. What a great dessert beer this would make after a meal.

Easily the best cream ale I've ever had. I'm not a.. well saying vanilla would be confusing here.. plain cream ale fan on most days, but the vanilla and coffee additions really make it sing.

Thanks for sharing!!

Really enjoyed this one! Haven't had a cream ale I enjoyed so thoroughly in a long time! Thanks

I thought I was probably not going to enjoy this one, but I was, fortunately, mistaken.

It was great - really well balanced and compatible flavours, a great mouthfeel, and no carb issues for me at all.

The comments about twist off caps and carb issues are always interesting to me... I have used twist off caps for the vast majority of my brews (my wife drinks Propeller IPA most of the time), and I have never had any issues with carbonation - I think I must have the best capper there is. You really need to come onto 'er to get it to seal, but I can actually twist my homebrew caps off most of the time and carb is perfect...

Anyways, I digress. Thanks for the great beer!

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