Market Street's Vanilla Creme Ale clone recipe and more

Plus, kveik tips from the pros, scaling down recipes, motorized grain mill project and more

Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, You can brew year-round with these tips for hot-weather brewing [Digital Members]. This week's recipes offer two different takes on Creme Ales: Market Street's Vanilla Creme Ale clone [Free] and Cranberry Cream Ale recipe [Digital Members], the addition of cranberries will provide an astringency and acidity and can play nicely in this style. Here's how the pros at Ebb and Flow Fermentations and Buried Acorn Brewing Co. use kveik [Free], including a bonus recipe for Buried Acorn Brewing Co.'s Stoutland clone. In Mr. Wizard's opinion, scaling down recipes [Free] is part-art, part-science. Then, he answers the reader question: How do hops affect the final gravity of a beer? [Digital Members] Follow these step-by-step directions to motorize your grain mill [Free] to achieve maximum freshness by crushing just before mashing. This immersion lid temperature controller project [Digital Members] uses a temperature-controlled pump that flushes ice water through the immersed coil. Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Market Street's Vanilla Creme Ale clone Homebrew rendition of this vanilla-flavored ale from Nashville, Tennessee's Market Street Pub. (5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains) OG = 1.040   FG = 1.010 IBU = 14  SRM = 5  ABV = 3.9% Ingredients 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kg) Muntons light malt extract syrup 1.25 lb. (0.57 kg) wheat dried malt extract 1 lb. (0.45 kg) crystal malt (10 °L) 3.25 AAU Nugget hops (75 min.) (0.25 oz./7 g of 13% alpha acid) Read more Article Kveik: Tips from the Pros It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that when American craft brewers got their hands on the fast-fermenting kveik strains from Norway they immediately started using them to quickly turn around IPAs with characteristics never seen before. However, IPAs (and the traditional Old World styles from their home countries) aren't all these unique yeasts do well. Allow these two pros to share just how diverse kveik strains really are. Read more Ask Mr Wizard Scaling Down Recipes Q In "Designing Great Beers," Ray Daniels shows how to build a grain bill using a 5.5-gallon (21-L) example. How can you use his technique to brew a single-gallon (4-L) batch? Will you encounter any issues by just dividing all of the listed ingredients accordingly? A I have been designing beers using math since I first learned how to calculate a brew 25 years ago. There is something rewarding in the formality that goes into crunching numbers and coming up with the recipe on paper that is used as the brewing road map for wort production and the all-important start to something [hopefully] wonderful to follow. If a mathematical brewer is handed a recipe, the first thing they will likely do prior to brewing is to check the math and adjust the recipe for their system.    Read More Project Motorize Your Grain Mill Although you can make a good pale ale, porter or wheat beer with an all-extract kit, most brewers use crushed grain in their brewing. Inevitably the urge to add "just a touch of something special" motivates brewers to steep specialty grains or even perform mini-mashes. That requires grain — malted, roasted, toasted, even raw. Read More For Digital Members Only Members get access to thousands of recipes, all new BYO issues and more. Try membership risk free for 14 days.* Brew Better. Try Membership, Free!* Recipe Cranberry Cream Ale For a tart twist on a cream ale, the addition of cranberries will provide an astringency and acidity and can play nicely in this style. (5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains) OG = 1.054  FG = 1.012 IBU = 26  SRM = 4  ABV = 5.6% Ingredients 5 lbs. (2.23 kg) extra light dried malt extract 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) dextrine malt 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) light crystal malt (20° L)   Read more Article Make me Sweat! Cool Tips for Hot-Weather Brewing For centuries, brewing was a seasonal activity. Beer was brewed in the colder months and stored in caves. But the fermenters were empty throughout the summer because brewers could not control their fermentation temperatures. For many homebrewers, brewing is still a seasonal activity for the same reason. However, it doesn't have to be. I live in Texas, but I brew year-round. As I'll show you, there are many ways to ease or eliminate the problems of hot weather brewing. Read more Ask Mr. Wizard How do hops affect the final gravity of a beer? Q How do hops affect the final gravity of a beer? I recently brewed a new England IPA with 12 ounces of hops for 5 gallons (19 l). The final gravity was 1.018 and i expected 1.014 with the Gigayeast Vermont IPA yeast. So to me it tastes stronger than the 5.5% ABV that i calculated, and i don't understand why the hop content Doesn't make the hydrometer float higher. A Hops do not have a significant impact on wort or beer density because the concentration of hop soluble compounds is simply too low to make much of an impact on density. In order to increase the density of 1 liter of wort by 1 ˚Plato, 0.01 kg or 10,000 mg of soluble solids must be added. A beer that contains 100 mg of iso-alpha-acids per liter of beer (100 IBUs) adds sufficient "extract" to boost the gravity by 0.1 ˚Plato, which is within the error range of the typical brewery hydrometer. Hops do lend compounds to beer other than iso-alpha-acids, such as non-isomerized alpha acids, beta acids, and hop oils, but these are minor players in comparison to the iso-alpha-acids.   Read more Project Immersion Lid Temperature Controller For the past few years I've been doing small batch brew-in-a-bag (BIAB); brewing 2.5 gallons (9.5 L) of delicious beer at a time, in my kitchen, by my lonesome. Something was missing in my homebrew life, and that was the social aspect of brewing with friends. Determined to start up a monthly collaborative "experimental brew" at my place, I began amassing oodles of excellent gear for a ¾-barrel BIAB system. Read more *For new members and subscribers only. Limit one per customer. Additional auto-renewal terms apply. See product checkout page for details.  Copyright © 2020 Brew Your Own, All rights reserved. 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