"Cheerios Beer" NHBC Club Nite - CRABS

[Gallibrew]

It was nice meeting the gang at NHBC and talking about my "Cheerio Beer"

Here is the actual recipe for Breakfast Cereal Wild Rice American Brown Ale. The goal is to use up things but make a usable beer within an accepted style. Good Cereals may be sweetened but better if not too weird.

Batch size: 12 gallons
Total Grain: 21.53#
OG: 1.051

6.4% 1.38# Wild Rice ground into grits.
9.5% 2.00# Cereal (mix Honeynut Cheerios/Frosted Cheerios, Flakes)
66.9% 14.4# Pilsner
7% 1.5# Crystal 120
1.7% .38# Chocolate Malt
1.7% .38# Home made roasted barley
7% 1.5# Munich Malt

Use cereal mash with adjuncts and small percentage of regular grist.
Calculate to additional strike water to hit higher single infusion to keep some non fermentables and balance adjunct sugars.

Hop Schedule
1.5 oz Cent. 10.5 Alpha 60 Min.
.75 oz Cluster 6.8 Alpha 60 Min.
.50 oz Cent. 10.6 Alpha 30 MIn.
.50 oz Cascade 5.75 Alpha 15 Min.
.25 oz Bramling Cross 5.0 Alpha 15 Min. (unique flavor)
1.25 oz. Liberty 3.4 Alpha 5 Min.

Ferment with clean English or Chico yeast. In this case I used the new dry Chico and loved it.

Let me know who tries it.

Joel Gallihue

[bubba]

I seem to remember reading about a guy who liked to use Grape Nuts. He suggested the fortified vitamins aided in his fermentation. Grape Nuts is aparently made from malted barley.

Here is the site : http://www.birkocorp.com/brewing/strangebrew.asp

[Gallibrew]

Yep the Grapenuts has malt extract as do other cereals. All of them have carbs and nutrients that make yeast happy.

[brewsters millionths]

i use cornflakes in most of my light coloured beer as it is almost identical to flaked maize.