Homebrew Recipe
Collision Bend Brewing Co.'s 8 Crazy Nights Clone
- Method:
- All Grain
- Style:
- Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
- Boil Time:
- 90 min.
- Batch Size:
- 5 gal.
- Boil Size:
- 7 gal.
- Efficiency:
- 0
- Rating:
- Source:
- Brew Your Own
- Source Notes:
- November 2019, Vol. 25, No. 7 page 43. Part of "Winter Warmer", Christmas Ale brew special. 8 Crazy nights is a full-bodied spiced winter ale brewed with cinnamon, honey, and apples.
- Notes:
- With a somewhat thick mash, and a fairly hard water profile featuring at least 50 ppm of calcium, target a mash temperature of 148F and mash for 90 minutes or until conversion is complete. Recirculate (vorlauf) 2 gallons of wort from the bottom to the top of your mash tun to set the grain bed, then sparge with 5 gallons of water at 170F and collect about 7 gallons of runoff to your boil kettle. Boil for 90 minutes and add the hops, apples (in a muslin bag if using fresh apples), and spices at the times indicated in the ingredients list. At flameout, rapidly chill the wort to 60F and transfer the wort to your fermenter. Pitch the yeast, oxygenate thoroughly, and ferment at about 65F. Once fermentation is near completion after two weeks, raise the temperature to 70F to perform a diacetyl rest for two days. Then cool the beer about 6F per day for four days to help clear the beer. Rack the beer into a keg and force carbonate to 2.5 volumes (or prime and bottle condition). If bottle conditioning , leave the beer at 70-75F for a week or two. Lager at 35F for two weeks to a month. Serve at 40-45F.
Brew Numbers
| OG | FG | ABV | SRM | IBU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.078 | 1.018 | 8.2 | 13 | 25 |
Fermentables
| Name | Amount | % Grain Bill |
|---|---|---|
| Pale Malt - 2-Row | 13 lbs. | 80.62 |
| Munich Light | 1 lbs. | 6.20 |
| Notes: 8 L | ||
| Honey Malt | 0.84375 lbs. | 5.23 |
| Notes: Calls for 13.5 oz Gambrinus honey malt | ||
| Honey | 0.53125 lbs. | 3.29 |
| Notes: Calls for 8.5 oz | ||
| Caramel Malt 45 | 0.3125 lbs. | 1.94 |
| Notes: Calls for 5 oz. | ||
| Biscuit Malt | 0.3125 lbs. | 1.94 |
| Notes: Calls for 5 oz Briess Victory malt | ||
| Chocolate Malt | 0.125 lbs. | 0.78 |
| Notes: Calls for 2 oz | ||
| Total: | 16.13 lbs. | |
Yeast
| Name | Lab | Product |
|---|---|---|
| London Ale | Wyeast | 1028 |
| London Ale | White Labs | WLP013 |
| SafAle | Fermentis | S-04 |
Other Ingredients
| Name | Amount | Time | Use | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinnamon Stick | 0.02 oz. | 60 minutes | Boil | Flavor |
| Crushed Apples | 0.5 lb. | 60 minutes | Boil | Flavor |
| Notes: Or 1 pint apple cider. Place in muslin bag if using fresh apples. | ||||
Mash Steps
| Step | Name | Temp | Time | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Single Infusion Mash | 148 | 90 | All Grain |
| Notes: With a somewhat thick mash, and a fairly hard water profile featuring at least 50 ppm of calcium, target a mash temperature of 148F and mash for 90 minutes or until conversion is complete. | ||||