How to Make Cream Ale at Home
Homemade recipes have a unique freshness and taste. Today, I bring forward the recipe for a cream ale so you can give it a try at your home.
As the name suggests, Cream Ale does not have cream as its ingredient. It is a light beer that can be consumed repeatedly. It is an American-style lager with a touch of corn in it.
To make cream ale, you need to get hold of the grains and mill them. Prepare a mixture of calcium chloride, water and milled grains and boil it. Moist the grass to get a wort of about 6.5 gallons and boil for an hour. Ferment the beer and allow it to reach a temperature of about 68 °F. Bottle it up and let it carbonate.
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Ingredients for Cream Ale
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| 2 Row Malt | 6lbs/2.7kg |
| Flaked Corn | 2lbs/0.9kg |
| Flaked Rice | 1lb/0.45kg |
| Crystal Malt | 4oz/113g |
| Servomyces | 1 capsule |
| Calcium Chloride | 5.5g |
| Corn Sugar | ¾ cup |
| White Labs WLP080 Yeast | Cream Ale Yeast Blend |
The ingredients for making the beer will be available at a homebrew store. If not available nearby your place, then you can even opt for the online supplier. I prefer to buy them in bulk and then measure and use them. Till then, take a look at the hop schedule.
Hop Schedule
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| 3.5AAU Hallertau Magnum hops (0.25 oz. 7 g at 14% alpha acids) | 60 minutes |
| 1.9AAU Saaz hops (0.5 oz./14 g at 3.75% alpha acids) | 10 minutes |
Let’s take a look at the steps involved in the beer making process.
Cream Ale Recipe
- Take the grains and mill them. Mix calcium chloride and strike with 13.1 liters of water with a temperature of 164 °F (73 °C). Make a mash with this at a temperature of 150 °F (66 °C). Hold on to this temperature for 60 minutes.
- After boiling add to this mash to reach the temperature of 168 °F (76 °C). Hold onto this temperature for 5 minutes and then start with vorlauf.
- Moist the grains with enough water to get a wort of 6.5 gallons (24.6 L). Boil it for 60 minutes and add hops as per the given hop schedule.
- After the boil, whirlpool the mash for 5 minutes and settle it for 5 minutes. Rest the wort to chill to reach the temperature of 65 °F (18 °C) and pitch in the yeast.
- While fermentation, allow the beer to rise to the temperature of 68 °F (20 °C). Hold this temperature for ten days or till the fermentation is done, whatever is the later one.
- Bottle up the beer and let it get carbonated to 2.5 volumes.
Content Information in Cream Ale
| SRM | 5 |
| OG | 1.045 |
| FG | 1.008 |
| IBU | 15 |
| ABV | 4.7% |
How to Make Cream Ale at Home | Video
To help you out, I have uploaded the video of the recipe. Watch it for better clarity of the process.
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