Rumcake Ale --------------- Batch: 5.50 gal All Grain Characteristics --------------- Recipe Gravity: 1.119 OG (actual 1.102) Recipe Bitterness: 27 IBU Recipe Color: 33° SRM Estimated FG: 1.030 (actual 1.022) Alcohol by Volume: 11.5% (calculated from grain and sugar only, does not include the rum) ABV actual: 10.3% (calculated from OG and FG, does not include the rum) Alcohol by Weight: 9.0% (actual 8.1%) Ingredients ----------- American two-row 17.00 lb, Grain, Mashed American chocolate malt 1.50 lb, Grain, Mashed American wheat 1.00 lb, Grain, Mashed Crystal 60L 1.00 lb, Grain, Mashed Flaked oats, toasted 2.00 lb, Adjunct, Mashed Mash at 156°F for 60 minutes 60 minute boil Northern Brewer 1.00 oz, Whole, 60 minutes Willamette 1.00 oz, Whole, 30 minutes At flame out, add: 1/2 tsp ginger 1 tsp Cinnamon 1/4 tsp cloves 1/4 tsp allspice 1 lb. dark brown sugar Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale yeast, 1 pack Wyeast 1272 American Ale II yeast, 1 quart slurry Notes -----
Toast oats in 350F oven on cookie sheet for 10 - 15 minutes.
Add 1 cup dark rum at bottling/kegging.
I missed the OG, I actually got 1.102.
Nov 29, transferred to secondary, took gravity measurements, added rum. The hydrometer sample tasted ... odd.
The small beer:
OG 1.042 (actual)
FG 1.012 (actual)
ABV: 3.9%
1 oz Galena 60 minutes
Wyeast 1272, 1 quart
No spices, no brown sugar. I missed the volume on this, I only got 4 gallons. I was using my HLT as the second boil kettle, so I really didn't have a way to heat up more water to sparge again.
Tasting Score Sheet
Date | 02/14/10 |
Batch # | 82 |
Beer Name | Rumcake |
Style | 21B. Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer |
Packaging | Bottle | Draft |
APPEARANCE | 1 2 3 |
Head | spare | small | average | large | huge rocky | creamy | frothy | fizzy | white | off-white | light brown | dark lasting | diminishing |
Lacing | excellent | good | fair | spare |
Body | clear | sparkling | flat | cloudy | hazy | murky | muddy |
Particles | None | lightly cloudy | cloudy | heavily particulate | chunky |
Color | light | dark | yellow | amber | orange | red | brown | ruby | black | tawny |
Comments | Very opaque, black beer. |
AROMA | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 |
Malt | light | average | heavy | harsh | bread | cookie | molasses | caramel | grain | hay | straw | cereal | chocolate | coffee | toffee | toasted | roasted | burnt | nutty | meal |
Hops | light | average | heavy | harsh flowers | perfume | herbs | celery | grass pine | spruce | resin citrus | grapefruit | orange | lemon | lime |
Yeast/Bacteria | light | average | heavy | harsh dough | sweat | horse blanket | barnyard | leather soap | cheese | meat | broth | earth | musty | leaves |
Miscellaneous | alcohol: light | average | heavy banana | bubble gum | clove | grape | raisin | plum | prune | date | apple | pear | peach | pineapple | cherry raspberry | cassis | wine | port | cask wood | toffee | butter | butterscotch | smoke | tar | charcoal soy sauce | licorice | cola | honey | brown sugar | maple syrup | vanilla | pepper | allspice | nutmeg cinnamon | coriander | ginger | tobacco | dust | chalk | vegetable | cooked cabbage/corn | cardboard paper | medicine | solvent | bandage | skunk | sour milk | vinegar | rotten eggs |
Comments | Spicy aroma. |
MOUTHFEEL | 1 2 3 4 5 |
Body | light | medium | full |
Texture | thin | oily | creamy | sticky | slick | alcoholic | thick | minerals | gritty |
Carbonation | fizzy | lively | average | soft | flat |
Finish | metallic | chalky | astringent | bitter |
Comments: | |
FLAVOR | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 |
Duration | short | average | long |
Sweet | light | moderate | heavy | harsh |
acidic | light | moderate | heavy | harsh |
bitter | light | moderate | heavy | harsh |
other | vinegar | sour milk | salty | minerals |
Comments | Spicy flavor with a strong alcohol backing. Young for the style, re-evaluate next Christmas. |
OVERALL | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
COMMENTS | My first attempt at a Christmas style beer. This beer was 3 1/2 months old for this tasting. I think it really needs to age some more for the spice flavors to blend and mellow. There is a fairly strong alcohol flavor, probably from the rum. |
TOTAL | 32 |
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