Winter Seasonal Beer Holiday Spiced Ale

[The Pol]

Recipe Type

All Grain

Yeast

S-04

Yeast Starter

YES

Batch Size (Gallons)

5.3

Original Gravity

1.061

Final Gravity

1.016

Boiling Time (Minutes)

90

IBU

31.5

Color

17.3SRM

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

14

Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

14

Additional Fermentation

60 Aging

Tasting Notes

Malty, well balanced with the spices, great for a holiday grog!

10Lbs American 2-Row
8oz. Crystal 120L
8oz. Caravienne
4oz. Honey Malt
2oz. Black Roast Barley
2oz. Special B


1oz Glacier @ 60min.
1oz. Willamette @ 1min.

1 tsp Ginger @ 3 min.
1 tsp All-Spice @ 3 min.
2 tsp Cinnamon @ 3 min.

Whirflock @ 5 min.

Mash @ 155F for 60 min.
Ferment @ 66F for 14 days Safale S-04
Secondary @ 66F for 14 days
Keg Age @ 66@ for 60 days.

OG 1.061
FG ~1.016
ABV 5.8%
SRM 17.3
IBUs 31.5

 

[The Pol]

This has been a big hit at our family Thanksgiving Dinner! I actually used my turkey fryer to fry a turkey too... damn it worked so well!

EDIT: Also great with a fire in the fireplace, the tree lit, baking cookies with the kids.

 

[jldc]

Fresh Ginger?

 

[The Pol]

No this was ground ginger...

 

[Talloak]

What SRM black roasted barley are you using? Is it Roasted Barley (300) or Black Barley (500) or something else.

 

[The Pol]

What SRM black roasted barley are you using? Is it Roasted Barley (300) or Black Barley (500) or something else.

It is about 400

 

[Talloak]

I'll try to find something close to (400). Looks pretty darn good. I haven't had many holiday beers, but I liked the ones I have had. Think I will make this soon for Thanksgiving. I bottle so I like to give beer as much time in the bottle as possible. Might have to wait until X-mas.

 

[Talloak]

I brewed this today. Followed recipe pretty closely except I used about 12.5 lbs of pale malt instead of 10 lbs (long story) and added 2 oz of black patent since my SRM's weren't adding up to yours. Also, I could only find 350 or 500 SRM Roasted Barely so I used 350.

 

[Gremlyn]

Making this again this year? I want to do a holiday porter, I think this will make a nice base to work from, thanks Pol

 

[The Pol]

Tis the season... this is a great little beer.

 

[midfielder5]

This looks great, Pol.
Have you done this as a no chill version? if so, did you modify the spice additions- like you would for the hops? I am looking for guidance on whether to modify the timing of the spice additions.
thanks in advance!

 

[The Pol]

I have done it as a no chil, and no... no changes to the spice additions. I dont think the time will matter so much at high temp. Didnt taste like it mattered!

 

[kryolla]

can I substitute roasted barley for chocolate malt? thanks

 

[Gremlyn]

You can do anything you want, but it won't be the same brew. Those two grains have completely different flavour profiles.

 

[kryolla]

its only 2oz so I doubt it will contribute much to flavor but more towards color. This will also be my first no chill brew, the cube and ingredients minus MO which I have will be here next week.

 

[splifs]

Just made this, this weekend missed my OG by a bit due to some propane issues, still smelled pretty good and is fermenting away in the basement now. We'll see how it turns out....

 

[kryolla]

it looks like the same recipe as this thread

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/holiday-ale-137860/

 

[Gremlyn]

it looks like the same recipe as this thread

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/holiday-ale-137860/

Could very well be that The Pol frequents two homebrew forums... that traitor! This one was posted nearly a year before the one in the link.

 

[suhornet84]

Brewed this bad boy up today as a partial mash and it tasted amazing! Racked into primary at 1.060. Went with 1.3tsp of cinnamon and just a pinch of ginger and scottish ale wyeast. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[suhornet84]

Racked into secondary at 1.016, I'm excited about this one.

 

[motobrewer]

looks like a great recipe!

one question - are you really getting 30+ IBU's out of 1oz of Glacier?

thanks!

 

[Talloak]

Thats a good point. My beersmith says 18.8 IBUs total. 18 for the glacier and .8 for the Williamette. I didn't pay any attention to it when I made it, it will be well balanced I think and the hops aren't the focus of the beer anyway.

My batch of this has been sitting in primary for 5 weeks now. I want to bottle it soon, so it is ready fo thanksgiving. If I wait any longer, it will have to be for christmas.

 

[Gremlyn]

Maybe he uses a different calculation method for IBUs.

 

[The Pol]

It should be 18-21 IBUs...

 

[Q2XL]

Bottled this one today and it tasted outstanding going into the bottle!!

 

[bferullo]

how long would you say this needs to sit in bottles (not including the normal bottle conditioning carbonation). Think I can get it done for thanksgiving?

 

[phatuna]

Pol and gang, is this a beer that could possibly be used as a parti-gyle? I've been wanting to try a gyle, but am a little lost.
I've put this into beersmith, doubled the grain and hops, and kept it as a 5 gallon batch. I messed w/ the hops a bit to keep the IBU's around 19. However, the color ends up being black. I'm sure I can adjust the specialty grain to lighten it up, but was wondering if any of you had more experience with this.

I'm thinking 5 gallons of the holiday ale est. OG 1.1

then another 5 or 6 gallons of a brown or whatever this style would suggest. Any thoughts?

 

[beowulf]

Smelled really good during the boil...spiced were scant, but were definitely noticeable while boiling. I substituted Wyeast 1028 (London ale) w/1.6L starter for the S-04, due to availability locally. I'm hoping for a nice english ale-type flavor. Fermentation was going gangbusters after about 4-6 hours.

I was tempted to add some cloves, due to my friend's preferences, but resisted the urge since I've been hearing from numerous sources that it's easy to over-clove with spiced ales. I think this is a good spice combination. Since this is my first spiced ale, it'll give me a baseline to see how I might like to adjust spices....which may not even be necessary.

Although I boiled off a little too much (down to about 4.5 gals), the OG came out at exactly 1.060. I added a smidgen of water along with the yeast starter to bring to 5 gals, and ended up with about 1.055-ish. No matter...I have high hopes for this one. Now the tough part....waiting!

 

[Talloak]

Update: Well I cracked open my first bottle. I knew it wouldn't be ready in time for Christmas, much less Thanksgiving, but thats ok - I didn't want to share anyway. My girlfriend really digs this one, as do I. It will be better in another 3-4 weeks when the spices mellow out. The ginger (I think its the ginger) has a large presence, plus I over carbed it just a little bit (bottle conditioned).

 

[munklunk]

I brewed this up last Saturday. It smelled and looked amazing, and the Safeale-04 took off like a rocket. Luckily I got a blow-off on all my brews, but this one was a rager. I'll let yalls know how the finished product tastes.