Bad Santa Holiday Ale
It’s a little late, but I’m finally brewing a holiday ale for the Christmas season. This is an old recipe – named and brewed a decade before BYO magazine stole my name for what appears to be a inferior beer (I jest, it looks pretty good). My Bad Santa is a great winter beer – strong (~7.5%), medium-bodied, with cinnamon, honey and ginger adding to the already great dynamic provided by hallertauer and cascade hops, aromatic malt, and wheat. Assuming this one replicates previous batches, it’ll be ready for the holiday season and well into 2013.
Not your usual brew – honey, ginger and cinnamon round out a strong ale brewed with wheat, roasted barley, caramel malt and hallertauer/cascade hops. |
Recipe below the fold…
EDIT: and update on a miserable day brewing this beer can be found here…
Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Boil Size: 27.31 l Post Boil Volume: 21.84 l Batch Size (fermenter): 20.00 l Bottling Volume: 19.50 l Estimated OG: 1.067 SG Estimated Color: 9.6 SRM Estimated IBU: 30.7 IBUs Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 75.6 % Boil Time: 90 Minutes Ingredients: ------------ Amt Name %/IBU 4.55 kg Malt (2 Row) 75.7 % 0.50 kg Wheat Malt 8.3 % 0.21 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L 3.5 % 0.15 kg Aromatic Malt 2.5 % 0.04 kg Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) 0.6 % 27.00 g Hallertauer [7.30 %] - Boil 90.0 min 26.4 IBUs 10.00 g Cascade [6.40 %] - Boil 10.0 min 2.9 IBUs 1.50 oz Ginger Root (Boil 5.0 mins) 10.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min 1.4 IBUs 2.00 Items Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 mins) 1.0 pkg SafAle English Ale (S-04) 0.57 kg Honey 9.4 % Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge Total Grain Weight: 6.01 kg ---------------------------- Name Description Step Temp Step Time Mash In Add 14.45 l of water at 73.3 C 66.7 C 60 min Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (4.78l, 13.78l) of 75.6 C water