Winter Ale Recipe

[todd49401]

Hey everyone,

I'm going to brew my winter ale this weekend and need some advice for my recipe. I bought the Winter Warmer kit from Northern Brewer but want to up the gravity on it for more warming alcohol notes. The original gravity is 1.069 with the kit:

.75 lbs. English medium crystal
.25 lbs. English chocolate malt
9.45 gold malt syrup
3 oz. Willamette
Danstar Windsor Ale yeast

I want to add 1.5-3 lbs. of honey and 1 lb. corn sugar. I also have an extra sachet of Safale S-05 yeast to help with fermentation. I will probably add cinnamon, lemon peel, ginger, nutmeg, and a little allspice at flameout to get a good holiday ale flavor profile.

Should I add all the honey AND the corn sugar or will that reduce the body too much? Any suggestions?

 

[fatnoah]

I think if you were to add 3 lbs of honey and 1 lbs of corn sugar that would be a LOT of simple sugars and you could have some fermentation/flavor issues. I'd probably pick just 1 simple sugar so maybe do 2 lbs honey and forget the corn sugar. I think that would bump your OG up to about 1.085 which could be nice. Definitely use 2 yeast packs.

 

[todd49401]

Thanks--I chose 1.5 lbs. honey and 1 lbs. DME and used two packets of yeast. FG was 1.09