beer church. sunday 12/8. noon. gingerbread beer.

[Eric Stein]

I'm the brewmaster for this week. Hit it.



If you have recipe suggestions on how to achieve my aims, let me know. Usual beer tasting first.

Eric

[Brittany Zimmerman]

1000X yes! It's about time....

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[Alfredo Castil]

Gaaaah! I'm booked that day, but I'm glad it's back.

On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:18 AM, Brittany Zimmerman <brizim...@gmail.com> wrote:

1000X yes! It's about time....

On Dec 3, 2013 11:51 PM, "Eric Stein" <to...@des.truct.org> wrote:

I'm the brewmaster for this week. Hit it.

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If you have recipe suggestions on how to achieve my aims, let me know. Usual beer tasting first.

Eric

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[Eric Stein]

Donna and I did a bit of research and this is the recipe that pops up:

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

Anyone got thoughts?

Eric

[Christa Dahman]

I wonder what adding molasses would be like. I have a soft spot for molasses.

[Ryan Pierce]

Depends how fermentable molasses is. Adding sugars can have an opposite effect: more alcoholic and more dry. Definitely worth researching though.

[Christa Dahman]

It's about 75% sugar, but it has its own bitter flavors that are part of the allure. Molasses is a strong contributor to the flavor of most gingerbreads.

[Christa Dahman]

[Ryan Pierce]

Simple mash, looks straightforward in terms of process. In terms of ingredients, the malts look pretty specific. You sure B&G has them?

70F ferment temp may be a bit hard. We have no way of heating the fermenting chamber and I imagine shop temp is <70F. Well, I might be able to help. I can bring in a small 100W electric heater and set it up in the fermentation chamber for the winter. It looks like this and should get about 10 giga hashes per second:

[Eric Stein]

Nice.

[Eric Stein]

Let's do it. I've put in brown sugar in a beer before.

[Ryan Pierce]

So can we get another Ethernet drop into the beer cabinet for my, uhhhh, space heater?

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Date:12/06/2013 12:38 AM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: Re: [Beer Church] beer church. sunday 12/8. noon. gingerbread beer.

[Eric Stein]

lol

On 12/06/2013 10:45 AM, Ryan Pierce wrote:

So can we get another Ethernet drop into the beer cabinet for my, uhhhh, space heater?

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Date:12/06/2013  12:38 AM  (GMT-06:00) 
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Nice. 

On 12/05/2013 11:27 PM, Ryan Pierce wrote:
Simple mash, looks straightforward in terms of process. In terms of ingredients, the malts look pretty specific. You sure B&G has them?

70F ferment temp may be a bit hard. We have no way of heating the fermenting chamber and I imagine shop temp is <70F. Well, I might be able to help. I can bring in a small 100W electric heater and set it up in the fermentation chamber for the winter. It looks like this and should get about 10 giga hashes per second:



On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Eric Stein <to...@des.truct.org> wrote:

Donna and I did a bit of research and this is the recipe that pops up: