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Carbonation is just right for the style. Think Chimay Blue label or similar. My house tends to stay around 78deg F in the summer so I don't really have a way to cellar things. Texas summers will do that.

First sample bottled approx 2mo ago - great carbonation and head retention. Tastes like bottled gingerbread! Can't wait til Christmas.

Oh and as to temps? I live in TX so best I can hope for is mid 70s on avg. go figure!

Grab some fresh ginger at the local Asian market, and sweet orange peel at your LHBS. I generally steep my grains in the 160F range for 90mins. In my experience longer is better than less ( you're already investing 4hrs what is another 25min? ). Dry hopped with pellets as my LHBS doesn't carry...

Not sure about the OP but I left them in through primary. The taste was NOT disappointing. I should have done something similar in secondary, but kind of hoping the orange peel and so forth sinks to the bottom.

Just brewed this last weekend. Furious fermentation, had to clean off the top of my fermenter a few times due to overflow from the airlock. Did Perle instead of Saaz (didn't have any Saaz on hand... bad planning on my part) and Wyeast 3787 which appears to be a similar yeast. Smells fantastic...

Free Stuff! Yippee

I'm in! Need some new Kegging Toys!