I made this recipe and added bourbon suggested somewhere on this thread but I refuse to read 12 pages of posts to find it. I tried it fresh as was suggested that it was best and hated it. This was in June of this year. I almost poured it out but instead put it in a dark corner and forgot about it.
I bought a house and packed my brewing equipment which will be in storage for three months and was running out of homebrew so I dug up what I had put away in June.
IT WAS AWESOME!!!! It has turned out to be one of my best beers.
I exhumed the recipe and found that I had used more hops than the original and that the kolsh yeast didn't take off for a couple of days and I added US 05. This was a three gallon batch.
I believe I will use it as is the next time but make a 5 gallon batch using US 05 yeast. Here is the recipe I used for the three gallon recipe I made in May.
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Recipe: Vanilla Nice
Brewer: Jerry Pritchett
Asst Brewer: Cheesefood
Style: Specialty Beer
TYPE: Partial Mash
Taste: (35.0) Fresh it was not nice but after 6 months it was delicious. I mean really great.
Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 3.00 gal
Boil Size: 5.70 gal
Estimated OG: 1.051 SG
Estimated Color: 11.1 SRM
Estimated IBU: 30.4 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Boil Time: 80 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
2 lbs Pale Extract (3.0 SRM) Extract 43.86 %
2 lbs Wheat Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 43.86 %
9.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 12.28 %
0.60 oz Cascade [5.80 %] (60 min) Hops 22.6 IBU (actually used 1 oz)
0.60 oz Saaz [3.30 %] (20 min) Hops 7.8 IBU
0.60 oz Hallertauer [3.80 %] (5 min) (Aroma Hop-Hops -
0.15 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
1.00 oz Bourbon, Jim Beam Black (Bottling 5.0 minMisc
2.40 oz Lactose (Milk Sugar) (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
2.40 oz Lactose (Milk Sugar) (Bottling 5.0 min) Misc
4.00 oz Malto-Dextrine (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
30.00 ml Vanilla Extract (Bottling 0.0 min) Misc
30.00 ml Vanilla Extract (Primary 0.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs German Ale/Kolsch (White Labs #WLP029) [SYeast-Ale
1 Pkgs Safale American Ale (DCL #US-05) Yeast-Ale
Mash Schedule: Partial Mash Steep
Total Grain Weight: 0.56 lb
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Partial Mash Steep
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
45 min Grain Steep Add 0.85 gal of water and heat to 15155.0 F
10 min Sparge Add 0.85 gal of water at 175.3 F 165.0 F
Notes:
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Note: At Bottling add Lactose & Vanilla & Bourbon
5/27/2007 Missed a lot of targets. Ended up with 6.2 gallons of pre-boil. Forgot to allow extract volume. Boiled 20 minutes before adding 1 oz Cascade instead of .60 ounce. Used Tradition Hops in place of Hallertaur and used Tpschitz Saaz. Ended up with 2.8 gallons in fermenter.
Pitched 1 tube of yeast at 79° and set fermenter chamber to 68° at 1PM.
5/28/2007 7PM 30 Hours. No activity yet. Swirled the yeast in suspension and returned to fermenter.
5/29/2007 8 AM - Almost no activity. Sprinkled a packet of US 05 on wort.
6/11/07 Bottled with 3 oz Corn Sugar, 2.5 oz Lactose, 1 oz Vanilla, 1 oz Bourbon.