Tamir
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Hi,
Tomorrow I will be brewing a standard Irish Dry Stout.
I am brewing 12 Litre batches (for experimenting...) and now I am thinking about splitting this batch after fermentation is done, bottling the first half batch as is, and making a Christmas Stout out of the other one.
My question is - I know it most acceptable to boil the spices at the 10/5 last minutes of the boil, and since I'm not going to do that (for I want a half batch of a standard Irish Stout), and there is this way of soaking spices in Vodka, but it takes too long - how about boiling my spices in water for 10 minutes to sterilize them, and then adding the spices + the spiced water for secondary?
Did someone try this way? am I going to lose too many aromas/flavours?
Tomorrow I will be brewing a standard Irish Dry Stout.
I am brewing 12 Litre batches (for experimenting...) and now I am thinking about splitting this batch after fermentation is done, bottling the first half batch as is, and making a Christmas Stout out of the other one.
My question is - I know it most acceptable to boil the spices at the 10/5 last minutes of the boil, and since I'm not going to do that (for I want a half batch of a standard Irish Stout), and there is this way of soaking spices in Vodka, but it takes too long - how about boiling my spices in water for 10 minutes to sterilize them, and then adding the spices + the spiced water for secondary?
Did someone try this way? am I going to lose too many aromas/flavours?