Christmas Ale

[dhelegda]

About a week and a half ago I brewed my Christmas Ale, I put an 1/8 tsp of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in the last 5 minutes of my Boil. I have two vanilla beans soaking in vodka (just put them in the vodka 5 mins ago) I plan on adding the beans and vodka to the beer tomorrow evening. Can I cold crash then or should I let the beer remain at 63 degrees for a few more days? I am not going to secondary. I am going to crash and let it lager for a few weeks before kegging.

 

[derekcw83]

The vanilla flavor really comes out after around a week soaking in vodka, I would suggest longer in vodka, but at least do longer in the beer before crashing. I bottle, so I just leave the beans in vodka for the entire primary, then add at bottling day to my taste preference.