Autumn Wheat Ale

[seilenos]

I've been looking for a recipe that is similar to Free Will's Scarecrow which is an Autumn Spiced Wheat Ale. I hadn't found anything so I figured I'd try to combine two recipes that individually have given good results and I think they'd combine well, I just don't know the particulars of the spicing.

Any thoughts, good or bad about my first pass at a recipe?

Recipe: Autumn Wheat
Style: Weissbier
TYPE: All Grain

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 7.60 gal
Post Boil Volume: 6.50 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal
Bottling Volume: 4.75 gal
Estimated OG: 1.049 SG
Estimated Color: 3.8 SRM
Estimated IBU: 15.3 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 87.5 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU Volume
5 lbs Wheat Malt (Avangard) (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 54.1 % 0.39 gal
4 lbs Floor-Malted Pilsner (1.7 SRM) Grain 2 43.2 % 0.31 gal
4.0 oz Melanoidin (Weyermann) (30.0 SRM) Grain 3 2.7 % 0.02 gal
1.00 oz Tradition [6.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 4 15.3 IBUs -
1.00 tsp Cinnamon Powder (Boil 15.0 mins) Spice 5 - -
1.00 Items Vanilla Bean (Boil 15.0 mins) Spice 6 - -
0.50 tsp Allspice (Boil 15.0 mins) Spice 7 - -
0.12 tsp Nutmeg (Boil 15.0 mins) Spice 8 - -
1.00 tsp Cinnamon Powder (Boil 3.0 mins) Spice 9 - -
1.00 Items Vanilla Bean (Boil 3.0 mins) Spice 10 - -
0.50 tsp Allspice (Boil 3.0 mins) Spice 11 - -
0.12 tsp Nutmeg (Boil 3.0 mins) Spice 12 - -
1.0 pkg Weihenstephan Weizen (Wyeast Labs #3068) [124.21 Yeast 13 - -

 

[Hurphy]

This is interesting. I randomly decided to do something similar but in a brown ale and minus the nutmeg.

I’m dialing back the spices though.

1 tsp cin powder
.25 tsp allspice
3 tbls vanilla extract

 

[kjdevault1]

This sounds delicious! I have a pumpkin and an apple kit to brew. Both are Brown ales with only the spices, no actual fruit. I’m going to add a kuri squash pie filling I canned to the pumpkin. Kuri is similar to pumpkin, but more intense, between a pumpkin, butternut, acorn squash and sweet potato. I’d take it hands down comparatively. On the apple I’ll split the batch, half no apple and just spices, half with actual apple added. Up the OG, and make it more of an imperial size and let it age until next fall/ winter.
Keep us posted on the final outcome!

 

[EugenPrusi]

I think the combination of cinnamon, vanilla, allspice, and nutmeg is excellent.

 

[AlexKay]

You’ve probably already made this beer by now. I’d always recommend adding spices post-boil in a hop spider with a long (20+ minute) stand at 150-160 F.

I like to try a test run of the spices using water instead of wort, to try to gauge the intensity. Once I’ve figured out how much I think I should use, I cut it down by a factor of two to three for the first try of the actual beer.

 

[kwilson16]

@seilenos​

Did you brew this? What did you use for hops? I have been looking at a similar recipe called Ryezenbock:

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/between-18-and-50-ryezenbock/