Milk and Honey Seasonal Ale
Seasonal/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer • Extract • 5 gal
I love that beertools decided "Christmas" was a bad word and replaced it with "Seasonal"
October 31, 2010 pm 02:35pm
Ingredients (Extract, 5 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.
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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
Just moved to secondary
2010-11-13 5:19pm
Smells kinda like Cinnamon Gum, might need to back off the Cinnamon.
Timing of Spices
2010-11-16 5:59pm
When did you add your spices?
RE: Spices
2010-11-18 10:49pm
In second batch added in last few minutes of boil.
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.
