Christmas Ale (Great Lakes clone) 5 gal 
All Grain Recipe
Submitted By: rfllolyd (Shared)
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| Brewer: Eric Smith | |
| Batch Size: 5.00 gal | Style: Christmas/Winter Specialty Spice Beer (21B) |
| Boil Size: 6.52 gal | Style Guide: BJCP 2008 |
| Color: 13.4 SRM | Equipment: Pot and Cooler ( 5 Gal/19 L) - All Grain |
| Bitterness: 23.6 IBUs | Boil Time: 60 min |
| Est OG: 1.070 (17.0° P) | Mash Profile: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge |
| Est FG: 1.015 SG (3.8° P) | Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage |
| ABV: 7.2% | Taste Rating: 30.0 |
Ingredients
| Amount |
Name |
Type |
# |
| 9 lbs 14.92 oz |
Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) |
Grain |
1 |
| 15.47 oz |
Crystal 40, 2-Row, (Great Western) (40.0 SRM) |
Grain |
2 |
| 13.52 oz |
White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) |
Grain |
3 |
| 5.57 oz |
Special Roast (50.0 SRM) |
Grain |
4 |
| 3.34 oz |
Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) |
Grain |
5 |
| 14.01 oz |
Honey (1.0 SRM) |
Sugar |
6 |
| 1.37 oz |
Hallertauer [4.8%] - Boil 60 min |
Hops |
7 |
| 1.82 oz |
Ginger Root (Boil 12 min) |
Misc |
8 |
| 0.46 oz |
Cascade [5.5%] - Boil 10 min |
Hops |
9 |
| 0.46 oz |
Cascade [5.5%] - Boil 5 min |
Hops |
10 |
| 1.82 items |
Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5 min) |
Misc |
11 |
| 0.9 pkgs |
London Ale Yeast (Wyeast Labs #1028) |
Yeast |
12 |
Taste Notes
pre boil taste was very sweet.
post boil : like a christmas cookie. ummm can deff taste the spices. Notes
I mashed on Monday, 10/14. Boiled on Tuesday 10/15. wrong stc 1000 setting. fixed that early Wed.am 10/16/15
Subed Liberty hops for Hallertauer used 3oz of Liberty and .05 oz of Hallertauer @ 60 min
mashed @ 152 -154, could not fit entire mash in my 48qt cooler. Used 2 coolers and dumped smaller mash into large @ 1st runnings. 3 sparges to get a Pre Boil vol @ 13.5 gal.
Pre Boil OG of 1.052 ?
Dumped Ginger in @ 9 minutes 4 oz sliced as thin as poss. Put in a hop bag as well as The hops were in a bag.
Pulled ginger out at about 20 minutes after flameout. Whirllpooled for about 15 minutes.
Took about an hour and 15 minutes to fill and cool to 74* with CFC, nextime Use IC 1st, then move on to CFC.
Each Carboy got 275 ML 1028 yeast. Have a ready to start jar of yeast from this starter.
i used washed yeast dated 11/10/12. 750 ml @ 1gram + 1 ML water, 2 day. 1.25 L starter for 2 days, 2.25 starter on stir plate for 4 dayys, cold crash for 1 day.
put 1.5 cinn. stick from boil kettle in each fermentor
Fermentation is set at 66 f , 18.9 C 10:30 pm was set in circus man
oops.. set STA1000 to [-18.9C] ????? was at that temp for 6 hours.was down to 12.5 C
corrected to 18.9 C. This Recipe Has Not Been Rated
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