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Spotted Tongue Apple Pie Ale

Spotted Tongue Apple Pie Ale

Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer • All Grain • 2.5 gal

Homebrewer Stan

A nice fall treat.

September 23, 2015 pm 12:04pm

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Ingredients (All Grain2.5 gal)

  • 2 lbs German Light Munich

    German Light Munich

    For a desired malty, nutty flavor. Lagers, Oktoberfests and bock beer.

  • 3 lbs Midwest Wheat Malt

    Midwest Wheat Malt

    Light flavor and creamy head. For American weizenbier, weissbier and dunkelweiss.

  • 1 lbs Belgian Biscuit

    Belgian Biscuit

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

  • 0.5 lbs Light Brown Sugar

    Light Brown Sugar

    Imparts rich, sweet flavor. Use in Scottish ales, old ales and holiday beers.

  • 1 tsp Nutmeg (ground) - adjust amount to taste (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.

  • 1 tsp Cinnamon (ground) - adjust amount to taste (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.

  • White Labs WLP002 English Ale

    White Labs WLP002 English Ale

    A classic ESB strain from one of England's largest independent breweries. This yeast is best suited for English style ales including milds, bitters, porters, and English style stouts. This yeast will leave a beer very clear, and will leave some residual s

Notes

This makes the "crust" part of the apple pie beer. 3 gallons of apple juice is added in the primary fermenter for the "filling" part of the beer. The spices should be added at the end of the boil. If more are needed, they can be added at bottling/kegging time by making a tincture or tea. Pumpkin pie spice could probably be used as well, which would add a little ginger and clove to the mix.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 21 - Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer

Subcategory: A - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.064 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 15.6 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 6.7% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 0.0 IBU 0 - 100

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