
Deck The Halls... Seasonal Ale
Seasonal/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer • Extract • 5 gal
An attempt at a Christmas ale with some spicy notes. Brewing it tomorrow. I plan to add the cinnamon, nutmeg, and 2 tsp of allspice at flame out.
November 11, 2012 am 12:56am
Ingredients (Extract, 5 gal)
- 1 lbs
Crystal Malt 60°L
Crystal Malt 60°L
Sweet caramel flavor, deep golden to red color. For dark amber and brown ales.
- 1 lbs
Rye Malt
Rye Malt
Often used in German Ales and specialty beers
- .5 lbs
Belgian Biscuit
Belgian Biscuit
Warm baked biscuit flavor and aroma. Increases body. Use in Belgian beers.
- .5 lbs
Special Roast Malt; Briess
Special Roast Malt; Briess
Toasty, biscuity, sour, tangy flavors. Characteristics & Applications: • Excellent for Nut Brown Ales, Porter and other dark beer styles. • Special processing develops unique Toasty, Biscuity, Sour, Tangy flavors distinctive to Special Roast Malt . • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- 2 lbs
Amber Dry; Brewferm
Amber Dry; Brewferm
Highest quality malt extract powder. Does not contain any proteins.
- 3.3 lbs
CBW® Pilsen Light Liquid (Malt Extract); Briess
CBW® Pilsen Light Liquid (Malt Extract); Briess
Neutral to subtle flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • CBW® Pilsen Light is a liquid, 100% pure malted barley extract made from 100% Briess malts and water. It is the lightest pure malted barley extract available and produces a very crisp, clear wort. • CBW® Pilsen Light can be used in the production of all extract beer styles and to adjust the color, flavor and gravity of all grain beers. • Advantages of using extract in a brewhouse include: o Save time. o Increase capacity/boost productivity. o Extends the brew size by adding malt solids to the wort. o Boost gravity. o Adjust color. o Improve body and head retention. • Briess Malt & Ingredients Company is the only vertically integrated malting company in North America. That means we make our pure malt extracts from our own malt so you are assured of receiving only the fullest flavored, freshest, pure malt extracts for top brewhouse performance.
- 1 lbs
Honey
Honey
Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.
- 1 lbs
Candi Sugar Clear
Candi Sugar Clear
Smooth taste, good head retention, sweet aroma and high gravity without being apparent. Use in Belgian and holiday ales. Use clear for tripels, amber for dubbels, and dark is used in brown beer and strong golden ales.
- 1 oz
Northern Brewer - 9.0 AA% whole; boiled 60 min
Northern Brewer
Used for bittering with strong flavors and very fragrant in steam beers, dark English ales, and German lagers. Aroma is medium-strong with evergreen and mint overtones.
- 1 oz
Fuggle - 6.0 AA% whole; boiled 10 min
Fuggle
Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.
- 2 ea
Cinnamon (stick) - (omitted from calculations)
Cinnamon (stick)
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. Cinnamon sticks are made from long pieces of bark that are rolled, pressed, and dried.
- 2 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 1728 Scottish Ale™
Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale™
Ideally suited for Scottish-style ales, and high gravity ales of all types.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 21 - Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer
Subcategory: B - Seasonal/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer
Range for this Style | |||
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Original Gravity: | 1.069 | 1.026 - 1.120 | ![]() |
Terminal Gravity: | 1.014 | 0.995 - 1.035 | ![]() |
Color: | 15.6 SRM | 1 - 50 | ![]() |
Alcohol: | 7.3% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | ![]() |
Bitterness: | 32.7 IBU | 0 - 100 | ![]() |
Discussion
brew day
2012-11-13 2:04am
I brewed this tonight. Smells great, nice color, and the gravity was where it should be.
Secondary
2012-11-23 11:29pm
Racked to secondary tonight. Great color, good body and spices so far
Tasted
2012-12-16 9:22pm
Smells like cinnamon and nutmeg, slight sweetness, spiciness from the rye. Really nice Christmas Ale.