Gingerbread Grog Brown Ale Recipe Kit

This kit has a really tasty product when it's all done - even brewing it smells amazing. I brewed a pot of hazelnut vanilla coffee and dumped it in the last five minutes of wort brewing, and so I had "Gingerbread Java". with a little patience after bottling, the finished product is amazing smooth, flavorful, and even smells great! Brew it this summer for Fall enjoyment!

I was looking to do holiday beer last year and ordered this extract kit by mistake. Made it anyway, and am happy I did. A great tasting beer, and a hit with my wife. Am doing it again this year. While I normally do all-grain brewing, I have to admit that sometimes it's nice to just pour and go. As another reviewer noted, I added spices to the fermenter, not the boil.

It was awesome the first time I made it when I threw spice in the secondary. But the second time I threw spice in the boil...bad idea, hardly taste the ginger and it is more bitter than the first. When you put the spice in fermenter it is my favorite brew.

I brewed it via the instructions and let it bottle age for at least 1 month and it is wonderful! I have about 30 bottles left that I've been aging for 6 months now and I'm going to open them during the holidays this 2017 year. I've gotten numerous compliments that it has just the right amount of spice to be a very enjoyable beer.

Just kegged it and man that's a really good brew, you can definitely taste the gingerbread spice, only thing it doesn't tell you in the recipe is when to add the spice so I added it the last 5 minutes of the boil. Definitely recommend it.