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Author:

HPSarah

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.033

Efficiency: 45

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/1/2019 3:53 PM

Notes: On Bottling Day:
Felt like the flavor was a little bland and lackluster. Adding a little bit of Caramel (maybe 20L) might help balance the flavors a bit. Additionally, we might've wanted a little bit of a fruitier hop to add as well.

Author:

The Keg

Boil Size: 23 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.062

Efficiency: 73

Mash Thickness: 3.65

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/12/2023 11:46 AM

Notes: Nicely balanced beer with not as much residual sweetness as typical with a hefeweizen. The idea was a throw back to skiing in Austria in 1993 and this does the trick, will brew again...

Author:

Bitter & Esters

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.33

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/20/2023 5:15 PM

Notes:

Author:

Rupe901

Boil Size: 23 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 21 ° C

Priming Method: sucrose

Priming Amount: 127.7 g

Creation Date: 3/27/2023 8:31 PM

Notes:

Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 61

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/5/2022 5:58 PM

Notes: ================================
12/24/2022
this beer came out really nice. spices are nice, faintly sweet, molasses i think fermented away mostly, could experiment with adding it cold in the keg. the spices could get dialed up a bit and also up the ratio of ginger. possibly a third vanilla bean. its slightly thin bodied and a little like tart overfermented note, maybe something off from voss. maybe mash higher and use london ale yeast next time. mostly all the way there though, its a good beer as is.

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12/5/2022
reworking this into a gingerbread wheat ale for wifey.
reducing flaked barley to 2lb oats. replacing half the base malt with wheat malt. reducing lactose. replacing sugar with honey and reducing (maybe remove - a lot going on in this beer), adding some honey malt. adding molasses.

going with 0.75 lb molasses, seeing 0.75 in other recipes with similar gravity

gonna do 6g total spices taking that from pumpkin milkshake. wifey suggests a 1:1:1/4 ratio cinnamon ginger and clove so that works out to 2 2/3 g each of the cin and gin then 2/3 g clove.

vanilla bean and cinnamon, cloves, and ginger (....almost pumpkin spice).

full list of adjuncts - molasses, honey?, lactose, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, cloves. that a lot.

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11/24/2022
updating for '22. last year i did a light colored and malty profile but cant get it to balance here today, this year i have updated profile on my tap so it might be slightly different, kind of thinking KISS and use straight tap im sure it will still be light colored and malty.

everything else looks good tbh just need to decide which system to brew it on, adjust volumes and efficiency accordingly.,,,

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12/22/2021
follow up notes. adding volume to the batch size to account for the 2ndary addition of lactose and nutmeg mixture of approx 0.75 gallon, bringing abv down to about 8.1%. It still doesnt taste like an 8% beer but 8 is probably more accurate than 9.

if and when you rebrew you will prob need to adjust the pre and post boil numbers.
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12/19/2021
final notes - beer turned out great! i think still could use more nutmeg, the color was pretty good - mostly yellow to golden. the body was nice, on the thin side for a hefty beer but that was sort of the intent and it worked well. vanilla came through nice. pretty sweet but not too sweet imo.

still didnt take another FG of the final beer or adjust OG calculations for the added lactose volume. calculator says over 9 that is definitely wrong. it really does not taste or feel like it could be 8% so if I had to guess I would say its probably 7% or 7.5% at most.

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12/3/2021
not sure whats going on with FG. Got a reading at 1.010 dont understand how that is possible with the lactose.

Tasted not very sweet or nutmeggy so I added another 1/2lb lactose and 1.5tsp nutmeg to some water into the keg before transfer. that will dilute the beer a little from these numbers.

beer tastes really thin bodied. Not sure if I like the thin body since that was what I was aiming for? or if it needs to be beefed up with more malt, and maybe reduce the sugar.

Light light color almost too light. It does look like a cream ale, I was picturing more of a yellow, but this is like transluscent bud light / cream ale yellow.

Beer has nutmeg sediment floating around. Next time consider fresh crushed nutmeg in bigger chunks that way you can filter it out.

The beer tastes pretty good though overall. It could probably be sweeter, again with maybe more base malt and less sugar.

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11/19/2021
Brew day boosting warrior to boost ibu from 30 to 46ish .bu to gu seems really low especially with lactose
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11/17/2021
brew day update. got RO water and added some salts to the recipe for light colored and malty profile. i think it wouldve been fine with tap but i was worried about the beer coming out orange which has been happening with some of my ipas using tap only...

the ph is a little low because i already have acid malt in the grist. i think its mixed in so too late to remove it.
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11/7/2021
since egg nog many times is mixed with bourbon, bourbon oak aged version of this wouldnt be off the table....

maybe taste/can half or 2/3 of the batch from the keg then add the oak to the rest...?

--nutmeg discussion--
note that freshly ground nutmeg is not the same by weight/flavor as preground. grating 2 1/2 nutmeg seems like a PITA but im worried about messing up the conversion to preground so i may just do it that way?

"There is no exact standard of conversion between fresh and preground, but to give you an idea, you might only need 1/4 tsp of freshly ground nutmeg where you might need a whole teaspoon of preground – and you’ll probably get more flavor from that 1/4-tsp." from https://bakingbites.com/2009/08/whole-vs-freshly-ground-nutmeg/

that makes me think that 2 1/2 fresh ground nutmeg is really a ton...?

confusingly, my pumpkin ale uses 6 grams pumpkin pie spice. northern brewer winter spiced ale uses 0.5oz mulling spice which is 141g but i think those are whole spices. another winter warmer recipe im seeing is 1 1/4 teaspoon total spices including 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg.

calculator showing 0.25oz nutmeg (which is how much is used in many pumpkin ales is about 7.1 g) that is close to what i use for pumpkin but it might be too powerful for just nutmeg so lets go with something a little lower like 3 or 4g.

it should be easy enough to measure it in grams but in case you want to just use teaspoons : 1tsp nutmeg is 2.37g so 4/2.37 = 1.68 tsp i.e. 1 3/4 teaspoon

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10/28/2021
adding a bit of cane sugar to cut down on base malt just thinking that we want to keep it light colored..? can go against the body thickness of the beer but we are using the flaked barley and oats and we could mash higher for a higher FG? At the same time there is the lactose so we dont want it to come out too too sweet.

noticing high pH so adding some acid malt.

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update 12/31/2019 : combining egg nog stout and blonde stout recipes to create this new blonde egg nog ale which i think would aesthetically be more accurate, and less similar to GBS.

for this im going for like a light colored sweet lactose ale, like imperial cream ale crossed with barley/wheatwine, but adding thick body adjuncts as well like a NEIPA. consider adding wheat.

original stout recipe here : https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/578314
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update 11/26/2018 : there is an egg nog milk stout recipe in brooklyn brew shop's beer making book. it calls for 2 1/2 whole nutmegs (grated), 1 lb lactose, and 3 (!) vanilla beans.
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update 11/25/2018 : not sure the original thoughts here but
i think we would need to add vanilla bean, nutmeg and possibly cinnamon. would this be significantly different than GBS? obviously no ginger, but seems similar. adding british ale yeast just thinking maybe i could then piggy back the yeast and make a barleywine, but might be too roastey to reuse....
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working recipe from left hand milk stout clone : https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/left-hand-milk-stout-clone/

needs scaling for higher abv

Author:

sfbenjo

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/20/2022 12:01 AM

Notes:

Author:

Gmarg

Boil Size: 26.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 76

Mash Thickness: 3.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/23/2021 5:44 PM

Notes:

Author:

Hillside Brewing

Boil Size: 3.69 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/6/2021 8:40 PM

Notes: Fermentation Dry Hop @ 70% attenuation (1.027)
Traditional Dry Hop after fermentation is complete.

Fermentation temp: 68F

Author:

magnus.p.hald@unn.no

Boil Size: 26.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.066

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: 3.14

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/8/2021 8:15 PM

Notes: Won 1st place at 2018 Stone Homebrew Competition and American Homebrew Association Rally!

Recipe is for 70% brewhouse efficiency. Standard infusion mash at 152 for 60 minutes and batch sparge.

Adjunct addition notes :
* Lactose can be added at flameout
* For the mango, plan to add after high krausen. I buy frozen mango chunks, thaw at room temperature, then blend into puree.
* vanilla bean should be prepared in a tincture : split and scrape the bean(s), add to a small glass and top with very small amount of vodka (enough to cover the scraped bean and filling)
* add the vanilla bean tincure and coconut with the dry hops - usually put them all together in a muslin bag
* once fermentation is complete i usually cold crash for 24 hours then package.

Author:

Genus Brewing

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.055

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/28/2019 9:31 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.126

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/12/2015 12:20 AM

Notes:

Author:

PlatonicBeer89

Boil Size: 1.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.052

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/20/2019 1:31 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: White Cane Sugar

Priming Amount: 4.5 oz

Creation Date: 6/1/2018 7:17 PM

Notes: Pitch yeast cold - sub 60 deg. - Add 10 tablets of crushed Beano to the wart before lagering.

Lager at 57 deg for eight days.

Increase temp to 68 deg across five days and let rest until fermentation stops.

Author:

Simon PK Smith

Boil Size: 14 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/8/2018 9:24 PM

Notes:

Author:

Turboawdevo

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/2/2017 5:06 PM

Notes:

Author:

Adam Corsaut

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/31/2017 7:17 PM

Notes:

Author:

alan jhones

Boil Size: 34 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/9/2017 1:32 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.062

Efficiency: 81

Mash Thickness: 2.7

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 21 ° C

Priming Method: Sugar

Priming Amount: 80g

Creation Date: 7/12/2016 9:30 AM

Notes:

Author:

tomc

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/31/2015 5:34 PM

Notes:

Author:

nicboily12@gmail.com

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/25/2015 11:45 AM

Notes: OG. 1066
Racked 1019
Final 1014