High Seas Brewery Inland Sea Ale

Cream Ale brewed in the tradition of Gennessee Cream Ale. Basically, a light Pilsner Beer brewed at ale temperatures.

Brewer:	Kevminator		Email:	Kevminator@Yahoo.com
Beer:	High Seas Brewery Inland Sea Ale		Style:	Cream Ale
Type:	Partial mash		Size:	5.5 gallons
Color:	5 HCU (~5 SRM)		Bitterness:	17 IBU
OG:	1.049		FG:	1.008
Alcohol:	5.3% v/v (4.2% w/w)
Water:	Used Burton Salts in filtered tap water. Local water is very soft (<60ppm Carbonate)
Grain:	1.75 lb. American 2-row 1 lb. American 6-row 2 lb. Flaked corn
Mash:	70% efficiency
	Performed a mini-mash of all the grains. Mashed in with 1 gal. of water @ 168F. Temperature after dough in, 153F. Placed in preheated oven set to 170F for one hour. After mash, batch sparged with 2 gallons of water @ 175F.
Boil:	75 minutes	SG 1.060	4.5 gallons
	4 lb. Light malt extract 0 lb. Corn sugar
	Add 1/2-1 Tbs. Irish moss in the last 15 minutes of the boil
Hops:	1 oz. Kent Goldings (5% AA, 60 min.) 1 oz. Kent Goldings (5% AA, 5 min.)
Yeast:	Used Safale-56 Ale Yeast. Good general purpose Ale yeast. Ferments in the 70-80F range with no problems.
Log:	Fermented at 68-70F for 2 weeks.
Carbonation:	Used 4 oz. corn sugar. Mini-Kegged 2.5 gallons. Bottled the rest.
Tasting:	Green beer tasted great! After bottle conditioning, beer taste was very good. However, carbonation was very low. Will try to do something different next time.

Recipe posted 06/05/07.