Get advice on making beer from raw ingredients (malt, hops, water and yeast)
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PieOPah
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by PieOPah » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:43 am
Providing I can get myself grain, I should be making another beer fairly soon. The wife is away on her course again next week. This gives me time to brew again. The only problem is getting a delivery as there is nobody around to collect it!!! If I can get enough from my LHBS then I should be good.
Anyway, I want a Winter Brew. What do you guys make of this?
Winter Nut Ale
21-B Winter Specialty Spiced Beer
Size: 35 imp pt
Efficiency: 65%
Attenuation: 73%
Calories: 314.93 per 1 imp pt
Original Gravity: 1.059 (1.026 - 1.120)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.016 (0.995 - 1.035)
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Color: 22.1 (1.00 - 50.00)
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Alcohol: 5.64% (2.50% - 14.50%)
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Bitterness: 22.0 (0.00 - 100.00)
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Ingredients:
4.5 kg Maris Otter
0.5 kg British Crystal 55°L
0.454 kg Treacle
0.25 kg Belgian Cara-Pils
0.1 kg English Chocolate Malt
1.0 ea Cinnamon (stick) - added during boil, boiled 30 min
0.5 tsp Nutmeg (ground) - added during boil, boiled 30 min
35.0 g Willamette (5.00%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
1 L White Labs WLP005 British Ale
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mysterio
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by mysterio » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:18 pm
Looks awesome PoP. Out of interest, is the 30 minute boil for the spices BeerTools choice or yours?
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Calum
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by Calum » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:34 pm
PoP, looks like an interesting brew. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
I have never ventured into brewing with spices but Jacobite Ale from Traquair uses corriander seed along with East Kent Goldings. It a cracking example of a strong well flavoured ale so I will have to try something similar down the line.
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bod
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by bod » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:32 pm
that looks good! i'd be interested as to how the nutmeg flavours come through. its quite a strong flavour, but i can't really think how much 1/2 a tesspoon actually is.
i take it that you use beertools pro? i'm thinking of asking the SWMBO to buy me it for christmas!
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PieOPah
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by PieOPah » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:00 am
mysterio wrote:Looks awesome PoP. Out of interest, is the 30 minute boil for the spices BeerTools choice or yours?
I chose the timings. Never sure how long to do things so thought 30 minutes would be a good medium. Also, no idea how much of things so the amount is an experiment. I guess I should really look up a few other recipes and see how much others use in general....
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PieOPah
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by PieOPah » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:03 am
PieOPah wrote:I guess I should really look up a few other recipes and see how much others use in general....
5 minutes seems a popular choice - think I will go with that!
