Beer 2013.11

http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/community/blog/show?title=beer-recipe-of-the-week-gingerbread-ale

maybe add molasses

TODO: make this a proper wiki page

Details

• Codename: Krampus' Gingerbread Reaper
• Original Gravity: 1.040
• Final Gravity: 1.008
• IBUs: 19.4
• SRM: 19
• ABV: 4.3%
• Primary Fermentation: Nine days at 70°F (21°C)

Brew Participants

The helpers who stuck through thick and thin:

• Eric Stein
• Joseph Bella
• Justin Conroy

Mash

• 5.83lbs (1.59 kg) TF & S Maris Otter pale malt
• 1.25lb (340 g) Crisp brown malt
• 0.416lb (113g) TF & S pale chocolate malt
• 0.416lb (113g) Simpsons Golden Naked Oats
• 0.416lb (113g) Cara 45 - Dingemans
• 0.416lb (113g) flaked barkley - OIO Gilbertson & Page
• 23.3 g East Kent Goldings pellets, 5.8% a.a. (60 min)
• 1.66 tsp Irish moss

Mash Schedule:

• Type: Single step in insulated mash tun, no heating
• 10.75 qt water at 168F
• Target temp: 150F
• Actual temp: 152F
• Time: 70 mins
• Start Mash: 15:21
• End Mash: 16:21
• End temp: 152F

Mash for 60 minutes.

Sparge

• 5.25 gal
• Target temp: 168F
• Actual temp: 176F

Boil

• 60 minute boil
• 5 gallons expected at end of boil
• Boil start ??pm
• 50 mins from end, spices
• 4 g cinnamon
• 2 g ground ginger
• 1 g allspice
• 1 g cloves
• 40mins from end: 2 cups molasses
• 23.3 g of goldings 20m before end of boil
• Boil end ??pm
• Measured 1.045 gravity after boil