Spiced Bombardier

[chef99]

hi guys

I wanted to do a spiced beer for Christmas and thought bombardier would be a good base for the beer, being sweet and heavy
the clone originates from a recipe off of here and is made to a length of 26l

recipe
5.7kg pale malt
510g crystal malt
510g torrefied malt
54 chocolate malt

Water treatment: 1tlb Epsom salt, 1tlb gypson and 1tlb precipitated chalk

In the copper
Hops:
Pilgrim 10.9% 90min
fuggle 3.9% 5min or when boiler turned off. (i found the later gives a better taster)
2tlb Irish moss

efficiecy 83%
SG 1.054

For the spiced part i wanted to add fresh ingredients but I didn't have enough to hand at the time of brewing, so the following was used

40g fresh ginger
2tbl groung ginger
4 cinamom sticks(small)
8 cloves

Standard fermentation processes are being followed


I'm quite interested in you views on this beer as previous spiced beer recipes that I've seen on here tend to go for a more pale variety of beer

[dave-o]

I think you might find 8 cloves a bit much, as the clove taste can be a bit overpowering.

4 cinnamon sticks looks about right.

SHould be good as long as the cloves haven't taken over (or you really like cloves)

[chef99]

I think your right had a try of it the other day whilst kegging and the clove is a bit pottent. would prob go for 4-5 cloves next time

It does have a slight medicinal flavour. I Just hope I haven't made a school boy error and failed to rinse out the sterilizer properly!