Hardywood Gingerbread Stout clone

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  1. ShanePB

    ShanePB Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2010 Pennsylvania

    #1 ShanePB, Jul 17, 2013
  2. clearbrew

    clearbrew Initiate (0) Nov 3, 2009 Louisiana

    I've never had the beer, so I can't really help with the cloning. I am curious, did you find a clone recipe somewhere that you based yours on? Like I said I don't know the original beer, but that hop bill looks odd for a spiced stout. I usually make spiced ales around Christmas time, and I almost always use something like Hallertau (or some other noble hop). The hop bill you have listed looks like something I would use in an IPA. If you want to taste the spices, I would loose the late hop additions and just do a 60 min addition with Hallertau or Tetnang. 2 -3 oz of either should put you around 55 IBUs.
    This is just based on my very limited experience with spiced ales, so hope it helps. Good luck.
     
    #2 clearbrew, Jul 17, 2013
  3. MrOH

    MrOH Grand Pooh-Bah (3,995) Jul 5, 2010 Virginia
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    There's a fairly large thread over on Homebrewtalk.com about this. I do know that the ginger used is baby ginger, which might take a bit of searching to find.
     
    #3 MrOH, Jul 17, 2013
  4. ShanePB

    ShanePB Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2010 Pennsylvania

    That's where the general recipe came from the thread on HBT. No one ever reported back with their findings on an extract version. I could use the hopping schedule from the all-grain posted which was 3 oz of Challenger (if I can find it). Perle I have in there as my substitute.
     
    #4 ShanePB, Jul 17, 2013
  5. montman

    montman Maven (1,444) Mar 10, 2009 Virginia
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    I actually helped a buddy brew his extract version of this a few weeks ago, the recipe was somewhat similar to your link, I'll copy paste his post from HBT below. The brew went fine, smelled great, he is bottling it this weekend I believe. We live in VA and have had the orginal several times, guess we will see how close we got later.

    OG - 1.112
    FG - 1.033
    ABV - 10.46%
    IBU's - 55
    SRM - 34

    Chocolate malt - 12 oz
    Roasted Barley - 12 oz
    Victory - 12 oz
    Carapils - 6 oz

    Extra light DME - 12 lbs
    Lactose - 1 lb

    Warrior 2 oz at 60 min
    Nugget 2 oz at 20 min
    Challenger 1 oz at 5 min

    Wildflower honey - 2 lbs at 10 min
    Fresh ginger root - 5 oz at 5 min
    Vanilla beans - 5 beans split and scraped
    Cinnamon sticks - 3 whole sticks at 5 min

    Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale with 3L starter on stir plate
     
    #5 montman, Jul 17, 2013
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  6. ShanePB

    ShanePB Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2010 Pennsylvania

    That's exactly what I used to put into BrewToad. I just dropped the amount of honey is all.

    This is great to hear you guys brewed this. I want to brew it soon for the holidays. The only thing is this looks like it's going to be quite an expensive beer! I priced out all the ingredients on NB and I'm at almost $100 and still am missing the ginger root and wildflower honey items.
     
    #6 ShanePB, Jul 17, 2013
  7. pieman396

    pieman396 Initiate (0) Jul 22, 2013 Pennsylvania

    How is this guys?
     
    #7 pieman396, Nov 5, 2013
  8. Beejay

    Beejay Pooh-Bah (2,559) Dec 29, 2008 Virginia
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    I just bought some of this at Elwood Thompsons in Richmond...
     
    #8 Beejay, Nov 6, 2013
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