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White Oak Winter Ale

White Oak Winter Ale

Specialty Beer • All Grain • 31 gal

hopkins

a lightly spiced winter ale

July 18, 2015  09:58pm

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Ingredients (All Grain31 gal)

  • 44 lbs American 2-row

    American 2-row

    Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt

  • 12 lbs Caramel Malt 40L;Briess

    Caramel Malt 40L;Briess

    Sweet, caramel, toffee flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam, foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • Caramel Malt 40L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts golden to light red color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to light amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 6 lbs Biscuit Malt (Mout Roost 50);Dingemans

    Biscuit Malt (Mout Roost 50);Dingemans

    This toasted malt will provide a warm bread or biscuit flavor and aroma and will lend a garnet-brown color. Use 5-15% maximum. No enzymes. Must be mashed with malts having surplus diastatic power.

  • 5 lbs Chocolate Malt;Breiss

    Chocolate Malt;Breiss

    Rich roasted coffee flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Chocolate Malt is used in all beer styles for color adjustment with minor or no flavor contribution. • Use 1-10% for desired color in Porter and Stout Beer. • The chocolate flavor is very complementary when used in higher percentages in Brown Ales, Porters, Stouts and other Dark Beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 8 lbs Honey

    Honey

    Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.

  • 6 oz Centennial -10.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • 3 oz Goldings -5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Goldings

    Mild. Slightly flowery.

  • 3 oz Centennial -10.0 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • 2oz Cinnamon (stick) -add at 60 minutes from end of boil (omitted from calculations)

    Cinnamon (stick)

    Cinnamon is the dried bark of various laurel trees in the cinnamomun family. One of the more common trees from which Cinnamon is derived is the cassia. Ground cinnamon is perhaps the most common baking spice. Cinnamon sticks are made from long pieces of bark that are rolled, pressed, and dried.

  • 6oz Ginger (fresh) -add at 10 minutes from end (omitted from calculations)

    Ginger (fresh)

    Ginger possesses an intriguing; sweet, spicy and pungent flavour. Ginger is the common name given to the underground stem (rhizome) of the perennial plant Zingiber officinale Roscoe. It is chemically classified as an essential oil with pungent principles, and has been in use as a flavoring agent worldwide for over 20 centuries.

  • 6oz Orange Peel (dried) -add at 5 minutes from end of boil (omitted from calculations)

    Orange Peel (dried)

    Has a fragrantt sweet odor and a subtle mild sweetness. One medium orange has about 3 tablespoons of grated peel.

  • White LabsWLP004Irish Stout

    White LabsWLP004Irish Stout

    This is the yeast from one of the oldest stout producing breweries in the world. It produces a slight hint of diacetyl, balanced by a light frui|iness and slight dry crispness. Great for Irish ales, stouts, porters, browns, reds and a very interesting pal

Notes

Seasonal offering - Winter; first batch did not have enough spices so recipe has been revised

Style (BJCP)

Category: 23 -Specialty Beer

Subcategory: A -Specialty Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.069 1.026 -1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 0.995 -1.035
Color: 25.1 SRM 1 -50
Alcohol: 7.3% ABV 2.5% -14.5%
Bitterness: 49.5 IBU 0 -100

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