dylanphelan
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Hi All
It's winter here in South Africa, so I thought it would be a good time to brew a small test batch of a Spicy Xmas Beer.
I'm looking to get flavours of plum and clove. I know that Special B can give you plum flavours, but i havent found much info on how much to use. I'll add either All Spice or cloves late in the boil and possibly dry hop.
This is what I've come up with so far? Anybody got any input on the grain %.
Especially the Special B %
Plum & Clove Xmas Ale
Baltic Porter
Batch Size (fermenter): 4.50 l Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: My Equipment (4.5L)
End of Boil Volume 5.51 l Brewhouse Efficiency: 63.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 4.00 l Est Mash Efficiency 74.2 %
Ingredients
3.00 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 1 -
1.43 kg Pale Malt (5.0 EBC) Grain 2 77.9 %
0.15 kg Munich Malt (22.0 EBC) Grain 3 8.3 %
0.15 kg Special B Malt (354.6 EBC) Grain 4 8.2 %
0.10 kg Biscuit Malt (45.3 EBC) Grain 5 5.6 %
12.25 g Fuggles [5.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 29.1 IBUs
0.20 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining 7 -
5.00 g Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 8 -
2.00 g All Spice (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 9 -
0.4 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml] Yeast 10 -
I might rather use safale T58 - belgian yeast
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.076 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.016 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.0 %
Bitterness: 29.1 IBUs
Est Color: 45.8 EBC
It's winter here in South Africa, so I thought it would be a good time to brew a small test batch of a Spicy Xmas Beer.
I'm looking to get flavours of plum and clove. I know that Special B can give you plum flavours, but i havent found much info on how much to use. I'll add either All Spice or cloves late in the boil and possibly dry hop.
This is what I've come up with so far? Anybody got any input on the grain %.
Especially the Special B %
Plum & Clove Xmas Ale
Baltic Porter
Batch Size (fermenter): 4.50 l Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: My Equipment (4.5L)
End of Boil Volume 5.51 l Brewhouse Efficiency: 63.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 4.00 l Est Mash Efficiency 74.2 %
Ingredients
3.00 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 1 -
1.43 kg Pale Malt (5.0 EBC) Grain 2 77.9 %
0.15 kg Munich Malt (22.0 EBC) Grain 3 8.3 %
0.15 kg Special B Malt (354.6 EBC) Grain 4 8.2 %
0.10 kg Biscuit Malt (45.3 EBC) Grain 5 5.6 %
12.25 g Fuggles [5.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 29.1 IBUs
0.20 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining 7 -
5.00 g Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 8 -
2.00 g All Spice (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 9 -
0.4 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml] Yeast 10 -
I might rather use safale T58 - belgian yeast
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.076 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.016 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.0 %
Bitterness: 29.1 IBUs
Est Color: 45.8 EBC