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Beer Style: American-Lager/Ale or Creame Ale
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5 gallons
Description:
Brew a balanced gluten-free blonde ale at home with The Difficult Blonde all-grain recipe, using pale millet, biscuit rice, and cara millet malts with Willamette hops for gentle bitterness and aroma. Designed for gluten-free homebrewing with added rice hulls and enzymes for efficient saccharification, this gluten-free beer recipe delivers a smooth, easy-drinking craft beer with about 5.7 % ABV — perfect for gluten-free beer lovers looking for a lighter style.
Ingredients:
- 12# Pale Millet Malt
- 1# Biscuit Rice Malt
- 1# Cara Millet Malt
- .5# Rice Hulls
- 1# Malto Dextrin
- 2oz Willamette Hops
- Yeast Nutrient
- Whirfloc
- 2 tsp CaCl2
- 1 tsp Gypsum
- Termamyl SC DS per dosing instructions
- SEBamyl L per dosing instructions
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 66Secondary Ferment: 55
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.054Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol by Vol: 5.7%
Color SRM: 3.0
Bitterness IBU: 15.0
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5.0 Gallons
Procedure:
● Enzyme Note: Ceremix® Flex and Ondea Pro can replace the listed enzymes; in a rising step mash they increase mash efficiency and may alter target beer parameters ●
Heat 6 gal RO strike water to 165 F. Add CACL2, Gypsum, and Termamyl SC DS to strike water. Mash in grains. Temperature should drop, but you should stir for a second, then maybe even recirculate, until it gets down to 155F at least, then add SEBamyl L. Then recirculate for 90 minutes at 150F after you stir in the SEBamyl L thoroughly.
Heat to 168F, and sparge with 2.5 gal of 170F water. Boil for 60 minutes - 1 oz of Willamette at 60 min, and 1 oz at 0 Min, I do a 45 min WP at 200F. Ad Malto and Whirfloc at 15 minutes before flame out.
Ferment at 66F until gravity is below 1.013. Cold Crash to 35F (option to add Biofine when you crash). Also option to add 1 oz Willamette dry hop before you cold crash for 2-3 days. would require additional racking before cold crashing. Yeast nutrients per dosing and time addition recommendations.