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Offline colinsmith

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adding spices
« on: December 02, 2011, 09:55:26 pm »
I made a spiced Christmas ale but ended up aging it a little longer than planned and it seems to have lost most of the spice effect.

I was thinking about adding some more spices (cinnamon and cardoman) before bottling.

Does anyone have experience with this?
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Offline tschmidlin

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Re: adding spices
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2011, 10:58:46 pm »
Soak them in vodka then dose to taste.  Err on the light side, just to be safe.  I would probably soak them separately so you can get the desired level of each, but you can do them together.
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Re: adding spices
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 12:16:38 am »
If you've kegged it, I would take some spice and toss it in a hop sock and "cask condition" it
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Offline tomsawyer

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Re: adding spices
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2011, 02:26:36 pm »
If you can barely taste the spice, its perfect.
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