Husky’s Bane Spiced Ale

Here’s the first batch of beer that me_not_you and I made today.


Recipe
3.3 lbs Amber malt extract
3.3 lbs Light malt extract
1 lb Orange Blossom honey
0.5 lbs Crystal malt
1 oz. Centennial hop pellets (bittering)
0.5 oz. Northern Brewer hop pellets (bittering)
1 oz. Freshly grated ginger
3 2.75” cinnamon sticks, broken up
Grated zest from four small oranges
1 oz. Tettenang hop pellets (aroma)
British ale yeast (Wyeast 1098)

Procedure

Step Time Instructions
1 X Place the bags of malt extract into hot water to make them more manageable.
2 X Add 2 gallons of water to the brewing pot.
3 X Pour the Crystal malt into a muslin bag and tie the bag closed.
4 12:32 Place the bag into the cold water and allow the grains to steep. Raise the temperature to 130-140 degrees F but no hotter.
5 X After 30 minutes from turning on the burner, turn off the burner.
6 X Lift the bag from over the water with tongs. Pour 0.5 gallons of hot water through the bag. Discard the grain bag.
7 X Add the Amber and Light Malt Extract, and honey to the pot.
8 X Stir the pot until everything is completely dissolved. Make sure no syrupy liquids remain on the bottom of the pot.
9 13:10 Restart the burner and bring the pot to a boil.
10 X Place the 1 oz. of Centennial and 0.5 oz. of Northern Brewer hops into a muslin bag.
11 13:29 When the pot begins to boil, add the Centennial and Northern Brewer hops to the pot.
12 X Monitor the pot for the first 20 minutes to make sure it does not boil over. If it appears ready to boil over, turn down the heat.
13 X Place the ginger, cinnamon, and orange zest into a muslin bag.
14 14:19 50 minutes after the pot started boiling, add the ginger, cinnamon, and orange zest to the pot.
15 X Place the Tettenang hop pellets into a muslin bag.
16 14:24 55 minutes after the pot started boiling, add the Tettenang hops to the pot.
17 14:29 Five minutes later, turn off the burner.
18 X Place 2.5 gallons of cold water in a sanitized carboy.
19 14:38 Cool the pot as quickly as possible.
20 14:38 When the temperature of the wort is below 120º F, pour it into the fermenter.
21 14:40 When the fermenter temperature is at 70º F or below, pitch the yeast.
22 X Pull a sample from the fermenter and measure and record the Original Gravity: 1.053

2 thoughts on “Husky’s Bane Spiced Ale”

    1. woofwoofarf Post author

      This is actually a re-make (with a few variations in hops) of a beer I made back in 1996. I recall that it was tasty, although the only notes I have is that it was “a beer to get philosophical about!”
      A side note: I forgot to add the 0.75 pounds of Light Dried Malt Extract that the original recipe called for. I was worried that this might lead to a lower gravity but it would appear that that is definitely note the case!

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