Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Croûte de Pécan Bière (A Pecan Pie Ale)

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BoZzyFresh

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Location
Seattle
Recipe Type
All Grain
Yeast
Wyeast #1332 NW Ale
Yeast Starter
none
Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter
none
Batch Size (Gallons)
10
Original Gravity
1.061
Final Gravity
1.021
Boiling Time (Minutes)
60
IBU
34.3
Color
20.1
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
7-9 days 64-68 degrees F
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
7-9 days 64-68 degrees F
Tasting Notes
Rich taste, slightly dry, like drinking a pecan pie when warmed a bit.
:mug:DO NOT DRINK THIS BEER ICE COLD. Gets better as it sits after secondary (i give it 2 weeks maturation time). You may want to add a little carapils for better head retention. Also, bringing the brown sugar down a bit will probably cut the dry alcohol edge off. Add 2 cap-fulls venetian vanilla extract to secondary as well as 1lb candied pecans (slightly broken) You will need to rack twice in order to get out all sediment. If kegging first 3 pints will be cloudy. Enjoy!

Mash Temp- 154 degrees F for 60 mins
raise to 171 then mash out
1 hour sparge

16lb- US 2 row
8lb- Gambrinus Honey Malt
5lb- Cara 40L
1lb- Munich 20L
1lb- Brown Sugar (start of Boil)
10oz- Molasses (end of boil)

1oz- Magnum (60mins)
1- Whirfloc (15 min from end)
4oz- German Tett (10 min from end)
 
Wowza, that's alot of honey malt! Sounds interesting though and I'd really like to try it. Unfortunately, something like this I have such a hard time committing myself to 5 gallons.
 
Well I committed myself to 10 gallons this weekend... split it into 2 batches of 5 and pitched different yeasts into each batch.

My basement's 69 degrees, so I'm hoping that's ok to ferment at. I placed my fermenters directly underneath an AC vent that's normally closed (I opened it) so that my drop the temp a few degrees.

I knocked 3# of 2-row off because the brewing software said it was too malty. I like a little more hops so I split the Tettnang 2oz. for 20 mins, and the other 2oz. at 10. I'm guessing that wasn't too big of a deviation.
 
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