French Toast - Double Brown Ale with Maple Cinnamon and Vanilla

French Toast - Double Brown Ale with Maple Cinnamon and Vanilla

Dermott Dowling

Wood, Whisky, What is there not to love?  Every brewer loves everything made from malt including Single Malt Whisky of course. So when by luck chance and happenstance we came across the opportunity to join a Bulk Buy! for a couple of 20L Single Malt Whisky casks from a name Craft Whisky Distillery in Tasmania, who shall remain nameless for now...well the offer was simply too good to be true and miss out on an opportunity to get a Whisky Barrel and get our Brewing on!  So we did! cheers #brewhappy #barrelsoffun

French Toast - Double Brown Ale with Maple Cinnamon and Vanilla Beans aged in Wood!

Vital Stats:

  • Type: All Grain  Batch Size: 21.00 l  Boil Size: 23.77 l
  • Boil Time: 60 min
  • Est Original Gravity: 1.081 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.014 SG
  • Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.8 %
  • Bitterness: 34.9 IBUs Est Color: 58.1 EBC
  • Mash Name: Single Infusion @67C
  • Date: 14 Feb 2018 Brewer: Dermott Dowling Asst Brewer: Roger Lew
  • Equipment: Robobrew with Pump Efficiency: 72.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 72.0 %

Ingredients

Amt       Name                                                     Colour               %

5.20 kg Gladfield Ale Malt                                    (6.0 EBC)             68.4 %

0.60 kg Gladfield Dark Crystal Malt                   (190.0 EBC)             7.9 %

0.60 kg Gladfield Munich Malt                             (15.5 EBC)              7.9 %

0.60 kg Harraway's Rolled Oats                            (2.8 EBC)              7.9 %

0.20 kg Gladfield Biscuit Malt                                (60.0 EBC)            2.6 %

0.20 kg Gladfield Brown Malt                                 (178.0 EBC)          2.6 %

0.20 kg Gladfield Light Chocolate Malt                   (900.0 EBC)         2.6 %

Hops

  • 25 gm Perle [8.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 8 21.4 IBUs
  • 25 gm Willamette [4.70 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 9 9.5 IBUs
  • 25 gm Willamette [4.70 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 11 4.0 IBUs

Adjuncts:

  • 2 Vanilla Bean (Boil 5.0 mins) Split beans and scrap out contents and all in the boil @5 mins from flameout
  • 0.11 oz Cinnamon Stick 1 Scroll (Boil 5.0 mins) add a scroll @5 mins from flameout
  • 750ml Maple Syrup (Boil 0.0 mins) add at flameout - save another 250mL for addition into secondary fermentation

Yeast:

Method:

  1. Mash In Add 21.82 l of water at 72.3 C 65.6 C 75 min
  2. Sparge: Fly sparge with 10.56 l water at 75.6 C
  3. Ferment at 18-22C letting the beer free rise and ferment out the primary before adding last 250mL of Maple Syrup into secondary Fermentation
  4. Fine, rack into Barrels and let age for 1-3 months tasting using a wine thief nail or other such methods that reduce oxygen entering the beer
  5. Bottle or Keg to your liking using 111 grams of Dextrose (Corn Sugar) to a C02 level of 2.3
  6. Sip, Savour and enjoy! Prost!

Sauces of Brewspiration:

More pics and news coming but you might enjoy this BrewTube with Matt @Boatrocker talking about Wood and Beer and Brewing!