At the behest of Sarah, and certainly not begrudgingly, this batch is a winter warmer \ud83d\ude42 Sarah asked for orange, ginger, cinnamon, and vanilla, and I happened upon this recipe:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.homebrewtalk.com\/f78\/holly-christmas-ale-145580\/<\/p>\n
Just in case that post or the site ever goes away, here’s the recipe (with minor changes that I made):<\/p>\n
Recipe Type:<\/strong>\u00a0Partial Mash (the author specified all-grain) Mash Efficiency: 65% (rough guesstimate). I had ~1 gallon of sweet wort after BIAB, then I added 1.5 gal to get to my boil volume, then realized I hadn’t measured my gravity to check for efficiency. At that point I measured 1.023, but the mash was at 150*. 1.023 corrected for 150* is 1.042, which yields a 65% efficiency for the grain bill and 2.5 gallons of wort. Original Recipe Fermentables What I used: 6# Black Dragon Pale Liquid Male Extract (60 min boil) Hops: Other Ingredients: Tea to add during bottling: Single Step Infusion (67C\/152F)<\/p>\n Recipe Notes I brewed at the Seelke’s house, while Matt was brewing an all-grain British IPA. It was neat to see his all-grain method, which seems incredibly straight-forward, and a lot less scary than it seemed before I witnessed\/assisted. I was mashing in the oven while Matt was boiling, and when his burner was free, I moved the mash to the burner. I had two boil-overs, with one where a significant amount of liquid was lost \ud83d\ude41 I believe I would have hit a much higher gravity had I been more careful about preventing boil-overs, but it will still be a huge beer! We all tasted the sweet wort that I stole for gravity readings before pitching the yeast, and it tasted delicious!! Thanks for a fun brew day, Matt!<\/p>\n UPDATE 8\/4\/12: 4 weeks in the primary, bottled with the above-mentioned tea, and it tastes FABULOUS, both with and without the tea. Gotta make this again without the tea, just as an imperial honey brown ale. FG 1.011, estimating an ABV of 8.6%. WOOT!<\/p>\n UPDATE 11\/11\/12: cracked my first chilled bottle, and it was delightful \ud83d\ude42 Not quite what either of us had expected, but it is a subtle, complex, and very pleasant brew. It has no noticable nose. It starts dark and malty, has a caramel middle, and ends with a soft press of spices, everything represented but nothing dominating. Quite quaffable.<\/p>\n UPDATE 1\/1\/13: keeps getting better \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the behest of Sarah, and certainly not begrudgingly, this batch is a winter warmer \ud83d\ude42 Sarah asked for orange, ginger, cinnamon, and vanilla, and I happened upon this recipe: http:\/\/www.homebrewtalk.com\/f78\/holly-christmas-ale-145580\/ Just in case that post or the site ever goes away, here’s the recipe (with minor changes that I made): Recipe Type:\u00a0Partial Mash (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,35,45,37,136,44,11,49,23,50,59,6,8,48,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-row","category-adjunct","category-belgian-special-b","category-bitter-orange-peel","category-brew-again","category-centennial","category-chocolate","category-cinnamon","category-crystal-60l","category-ginger-root","category-honey","category-hops","category-malt","category-vanilla-bean","category-white-wheat","category-winter-warmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYeast:<\/strong>\u00a0WLP001, (2) 3-week-old half-pints washed from Batch 5 (the author specified Safale-05)
\nYeast Starter:<\/strong>\u00a0No (unless you consider Batch 5 to be a starter \ud83d\ude09 )
\nBatch Size (Gallons):<\/strong>\u00a05
\nOriginal Gravity:<\/strong>\u00a01.077 (author spec’d 1.077, also here 1.077, which is corrected from 1.073 at 90 degrees)
\nFinal Gravity:<\/strong>\u00a01.01
\nIBU:<\/strong>\u00a036 (original spec)
\nBoiling Time (Minutes):<\/strong>\u00a060
\nColor:<\/strong>\u00a017 (original spec; my beer is significantly darker)
\nPrimary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):<\/strong>\u00a03 weeks<\/p>\n
\nFermentation Temperature: started high (77-79). I placed the carboy in a tub of water and added 2 frozen water bottles every 12 hours for the first 2 days to bring it down into the low 70s (72-73)<\/p>\n
\nUS 2-Row Malt 13lb 0oz (84.1 %) In Mash\/Steeped
\nUK Medium Crystal 8.00 oz (3.2 %) In Mash\/Steeped
\nBelgian Special B 8.00 oz (3.2 %) In Mash\/Steeped
\nGerman Wheat Malt 4.00 oz (1.6 %) In Mash\/Steeped
\nUS Chocolate Malt (350L) 3.20 oz (1.3 %) In Mash\/Steeped
\nSugar – Honey 1lb 0oz (6.5 %) End Of Boil<\/p>\n
\n3# Pale 2-Row Malt (mash)
\n8oz Crystal 60L (mash)
\n8oz Belgian Special B (mash)
\n4oz White Wheat Malt (mash)
\n4oz Chocolate Malt (mash)<\/p>\n
\n2# Honey (flameout)<\/p>\n
\nCentennial (8.7 % alpha) 1.00 oz Pellet Hops 60 Min From End
\nCentennial (8.7 % alpha) 0.50 oz Pellet Hops 30 Min From End
\nCentennial (8.7 % alpha) 0.50 oz Pellet Hops 10 Min From End<\/p>\n
\nWhirlfloc 10min<\/p>\n
\nVanilla Beans 1
\nOrange Peel, Bitter 1 Tbs
\nCinnamon Stick 1
\nGinger Root 1Tbs (dehydrated or fresh)<\/p>\n
\nMake a tea prior to bottling by boiling a quart of the beer with the above spices and priming sugar for about a minute to combine. Add the mixture to a french press and let sit for 15 minutes. Then add to bottling Bucket.<\/p>\n