Poplar Plains Cream Ale

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Ingredients
8 lbs. Rahr
1 lb. Flaked Rice
1 lb. Flaked Corn
30 grams Hallertauer - ( 4% )
Escarpment Labs House Ale

This is Reign's first beer. I am going to guide him through it all. Using Mr. Robobrew to do this.
Total wort will be around 5 gallons but with the boil and other things related to that, I decided
to ferment this in a 3 gallon Fermonster carboy. I think I will bottle condition this in PET
bottles and hand it over to Reign to take home. Thinking about using the CPBF and I could
clear it better but decided not to do that at the moment. I think in time it will clear in the
bottle if my memory serves me but will take a month or so to do that. Not sure if Reign will
wait that long, especially when you first start brewing. I haven't told him about this yet, but
will do that sometime between now and opening the pool.

O.G. - 1.050
F.G. -
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SRM - 3.5
BU - 20

Not sure about my efficiency lately as it seems to be quite low but hope this is around 5%.
I have to be careful brewing a small wort volume and not sparge too much. I have to stop
sparging when it hits 5 gallons. Between boil evaporation and trub I should be able to get
3 gallons of clean wort.

Yellow Balanced

CA - 50
MG - 8
S04 - 75
CI - 59
PH - 5.35

Mash Volume - 4.75
Sparge Volume - 5 gallons

Fermentor Volume - 3 gallons

Mash 
Gyp - 1.3 g
CC - 1.6 g
Eps - 1.5 g
Lactic Acid - 2.1 ml

Boil
Gyp - 1.4 g
CC - 1.7 g
Eps- 1.6 g


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