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Milk and Honey Seasonal Ale

Milk and Honey Seasonal Ale

Seasonal/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer • Extract • 5 gal

Datahazard

I love that beertools decided "Christmas" was a bad word and replaced it with "Seasonal"

October 31, 2010 pm 02:35pm

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Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • .5 lbs Belgian Caramunich

    Belgian Caramunich

    Caramel, full flavor, copper color. For Belgian ales, German smoked and bocks.

  • 1 lbs Crystal Malt 60°L

    Crystal Malt 60°L

    Sweet caramel flavor, deep golden to red color. For dark amber and brown ales.

  • .5 lbs Belgian Biscuit

    Belgian Biscuit

    Warm baked biscuit flavor and aroma. Increases body. Use in Belgian beers.

  • .5 lbs Toasted Pale Malt

    Toasted Pale Malt

    Imparts nutty flavor and aroma. Use in IPAs and Scottish ales.

  • 3.3 lbs Liquid Light Extract

    Liquid Light Extract

    A brewer can create any beer style with this extract when used as a base in conjunction with colored malts and selected hops. Contains no colored malts or hops.

  • 2 lbs Dry Amber Extract

    Dry Amber Extract

    Cream-colored and full-flavored; will produce amber colored beers such as pale ales, IPAs, and bitters. Made of pale and crystal malts.

  • 1 lbs Honey

    Honey

    Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.

  • .25 lbs Lactose

    Lactose

    Adds sweetness and body. Use in sweet or milk stouts.

  • 1 oz Northdown - 8.6 AA% pellets; boiled 51 min

    Northdown

    Mellow English higher alpha-acid hop.

  • .5 oz Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 10 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • .5 oz Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 2 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • 1/2 tsp Cinnamon (ground) - (omitted from calculations)

    Cinnamon (ground)

    Cinnamon is the dried bark of various laurel trees in the cinnamomun family. One of the more common trees from which Cinnamon is derived is the cassia. Ground cinnamon is perhaps the most common baking spice. Ground cinnamon is ground from long pieces of bark that are rolled, pressed, and dried.

  • 1/8 tsp Nutmeg (ground) - (omitted from calculations)

    Nutmeg (ground)

    Nutmeg is pungent and sweet. Nutmeg is the seed of Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree native to the Molucca Islands. Interestingly, the tree produces both Nutmeg and mace, and grows up to 60 feet tall. Although the tree takes seven years to bear fruit, it may produce until the 90th year. Both spices come from the trees fruit, which splits into a scarlet outer membrane, mace, and an inner brown seed, Nutmeg.

  • Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale™

    Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale™

    Slight residual diacetyl and fruitiness; great for stouts. Clean, smooth, soft and full-bodied.

Notes

Just moved to Secondary, Cinnamon smell is strong, smells a lot like Red Hots candy. I'm brewing another batch today, seasoned like this: 1/2 tsp of cinnamon 1/4 tsp of ginger 1/8 tsp nutmeg 1/8 tsp of allspice for a five gallon batch (credit http://beertools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6259&highlight=winter+specialty+warming+spiced+cinnamon)

Style (BJCP)

Category: 21 - Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer

Subcategory: B - Seasonal/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.060 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 16.9 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 6.4% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 31.6 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

Datahazard

Just moved to secondary

2010-11-13 5:19pm

Smells kinda like Cinnamon Gum, might need to back off the Cinnamon.

Grox

Timing of Spices

2010-11-16 5:59pm

When did you add your spices?

Datahazard

RE: Spices

2010-11-18 10:49pm

In second batch added in last few minutes of boil.

Datahazard

Just tasted both batches.

2010-12-11 5:44pm

Batch 2 is definitely better, but they're both pretty good, might dry out if aged more, a little sweet from the lactose.

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