Christmas Eve Nightcap Wheat Beer

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This is a Christmas beer I decided to brew with my left over pound
of wheat LME. It is a little on the hoppy side for my taste, but it
is actually not too bad. It is a hop that I like, at least, and it mixes
well with all the other flavors in the beer.

1 Gallon Batch
1# Wheat LME
2oz cane sugar
2oz honey

Steeping Grains
2oz dark munich
2oz chocolate
2oz Crystal 60L
1oz rolled oats

.25tsp ground cinnamon
.0125tsp ground nutmeg
.0125tsp ground ginger
**all spices put in with 10 minutes left

several pieces of orange peel

1gram Simcoe hops 60 minutes
1gram Simcoe hops 10 minutes

I've already taken this off the yeast and it is sitting the secondary. I plan to rack it one more time (got a lot of sediment falling out still) and let it sit for a week or two. I've done that with my other two brews, and they came out really nice.

 

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In case anyone cares, this has been bottled for a month now...it sat longer than that in the secondary (before getting a small infection, which prompted me to bottle it). This is actually quite a very nice beer. It is hoppy, but as I said above, it is a hop I know I like. I will certainly be making this again. May try a different hop next time...I currently have Whitbread in stock.