Yesterday, we racked and spiced the Winter Strong Ale. We made a concentrated spice tea to add to the beer to give it a hint of spice flavor in the background. The spice tea contained traditional winter spices: cinnamon sticks, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. We added ~3/4 cup of the spice tea to the 5 gallon batch, which should give it a very subtle spice flavor without over powering the beer.
The Winter Warmer will sit in secondary for about 2 months now before bottling it towards the end of October. The beer will be ready to drink following the Thanksgiving holiday, so we have quite some time before we find out whether our first winter ale was a success!
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