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Kotikalja Cream Ale

163 calories 14.4 g 12 oz
Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: Cream Ale
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 7.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 8.33 gallons
Post Boil Size: 7.5 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.045 (recipe based estimate)
Post Boil Gravity: 1.050 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 82% (brew house)
Calories: 163 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 14.4 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Wednesday September 8th 2021
1.050
1.009
5.3%
19.1
8.7
5.3
9.82
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
9.50 lb Rahr - Standard 2-Row9.5 lb Standard 2-Row 0.98 / lb
9.32
36.8 1.8 74.5%
1 lb Flaked Oats1 lb Flaked Oats 33 2.2 7.8%
1 lb Weyermann - CaraRye1 lb CaraRye 33 75 7.8%
0.50 lb German - Acidulated Malt0.5 lb Acidulated Malt 27 3.4 3.9%
0.75 lb Weyermann - Vienna Malt0.75 lb Vienna Malt 37 3.5 5.9%
12.75 lbs / 9.32
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
10 g Magnum10 g Magnum Hops Pellet 15 Boil at 204 °F 45 min 12.88 15%
2 oz Centennial2 oz Centennial Hops Pellet 10 Whirlpool at 175 °F 10 min 6.19 85%
66.70 g / 0.00
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
6.5 gal Infusion 157 °F 152 °F 60 min
3.3 gal Sparge 152 °F 170 °F --
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.75 qt/lb
 
Other Ingredients
Amount Name Cost Type Use Time
0.50 lb Rice hulls Water Agt Mash 1 hr.
1 each Whirlfloc / 5 Each 0.50 / each
0.50
Water Agt Boil 10 min.
1.20 g Yeast Nutrient Other Boil 10 min.
7.50 ml Biofine Clear Fining Kegging 0 min.
0.50
 
Yeast
Lallemand - LALBREW® NOTTINGHAM HIGH PERFORMANCE ALE YEAST
Amount:
2 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
80%
Flocculation:
High
Optimum Temp:
50 - 72 °F
Starter:
No
Fermentation Temp:
-
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 123 B cells required
0.00 Yeast Pitch Rate and Starter Calculator
Priming
Method: co2       Amount: 5.72 psi       Temp: 35 °F       CO2 Level: 2.1 Volumes
 
Target Water Profile
Light colored and malty
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
60 5 10 95 55 0
into 10 gallon R/O water -

Gypsum - 2.5 grams
Calcium Chloride - 6.2 grams
Epsom salt -2 grams
Canning salt -1 gram.
Mash Chemistry and Brewing Water Calculator
 
Notes

Note - In the mash recipe the Wyermann Cara Rye approximates the Tuoppi Kotikalja, but it is not the same malt. There's not option for me to add this maltster in BF. I'm using Finnish toasted rye, from Laihian Mallas 60-70, maybe 80? lovibond. Tuoppi, if you're interested.

I ordered a cream ale at a tap house the other week, and when I got it, I was surprised to see, it was closer to a brown ale in color. It wasn't what I was expecting, and I asked if it was the correct order, and sure enough yep, it's the cream ale. It had some really nice spicy, gingery, bready subtleties going on in the malt palate. It was so good, I got to thinking about how I might reproduce a similar cream ale, and I figured not only do I have a bag of Finnish Rye malt kicking around, that's literally all I did have that is suitable to the brewing of this color/flavor of beer that might even approximate what was used in the beer I tasted that fateful eve.

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