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[Big Nake]

I love a good cream ale, and flaked maize is the only thing between me and a double brew day today adding in a cream ale. Maybe a trip to the corner Kroger (where I am 100% sure they have masa) is in order. hmmmmm.

Do eeet! FTR... when I went to the LHBS yesterday I did pick up a bag of rice hulls for the next time I use this stuff. I still have 2-3 pounds of flaked maize in my inventory but I may never use it again because picking this stuff up at the grocery store is too easy. Brew it Chef... brew it!

[ChefLamont]

Wellllll, it is MLK day and I am already brewing a dark beer.  It would only seem right to brew a pale beer to go happily with it.

 

 

Yea I know. BAW! 

 

 

Getting late in the day (had to go to the Dr. this am )  May have to put it off till Friday.  We shall see.

[Poptop]

This beer is fermenting ROBUSTLY with White Labs 01. It's sitting in a plastic tub with 10-12 gallons of water and my Thermapen tells me that the water is 62.6°. The aroma from the airlock is of the late hops mostly but it's got a nice neutral yeast aroma along with a bit of this corn intermingled in there too. I'm curious about how the finished product will convey the corn because I've used flaked corn many times and never really got a BIG corn character although I often use it in the 10-12% range which is pretty reserved. Cheers.

First time I used 01 for my Double Cream Ale. It chewed through this batch fast and furious and I kept my swamp at 60. I can't wait to try this yeast again. I just kegged my batch Monday and it has a very nice clean flavor. I can pick out the flaked corn or I can pick out the 6 row. Or both. Adds that familiar creamy flavor. It's a week out from being fully carbed. Cannot wait.Something to be said for a simple Cream Ale... even if I accidentally turned mine into a monster (7.3%).....