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You can get a real Duff beer now at Universal Studios Orlando, in Moe's Tavern, no less! http://www.orlandobeerguide.com/2/post/2013/11/had-a-duff-at-moes-tavern-today-at-universal-studios.html

Sorry, didn't realize I was digging this thread up from the grave!

I used an Oktoberfest kit and added 3oz sliced fresh ginger at 60 min, 3oz sliced ginger and 2 tblsps Pumpkin Pie Spice at 30 min, and 1 cup of blackstrap molasses at 5 min. It smelled great through most of the boil, but when I added the molasses, it was like, YES! This smells just like...

Maybe a splash of butter-flavored extract?

Thanks for the response, I also excited to try this. It sounds like exactly the result I'm looking for.

How did the batch with the sugar-free caramel syrup turn out? I'm considering doing something similar.

Has anyone added sugar-free caramel syrup after their cider has fermented dry? It sounds like a great way to add the caramel flavor without having to back sweeten/stove-top pasturize.

Oh yeah, the rum is delicious. It's a spiced rum that is slightly sweet--maybe the sugar reacted badly with the oak chips? Hard to say.

Thanks! That is a good and reasonable explanation--I'll keep to the recipe and look to bottling late next week or on the weekend.

I don't know what particular brand they were, just French Oak Chips from my LHBS--never had any issue with "off" ingredients from them before. The rum was Tortuga Spiced Rum that I got in Grand Caymen.

I have this in secondary right now with the vanilla bean and rum-soaked French oak chips. I left itin primary for a month vs. three weeks, so my oak chips had been soaking in rum all that time. After I drained the rum from the oak chips, I tasted the oaked rum; it was, in a word, TERRIBLE...

I'm excited to try this recipe next weekend, though I'm considering boiling 1/2 to 1 gallon on the apple juice with a packet of mulling spices before adding it to the fermenter. I like the idea of a dry, mulled, carbonated cider, and this seems like the most direct way to achieve it. Thoughts...

Just starting out here in Baton Rouge, Highland/Perkins area. Really looking forward to quaffing my first batch of Oktoberfest in about a month!