Vanilla Pale Ale Recipe

[Dazzling]

I already have my own idea of how to do this but was just interested to get some other opinions. What I want to do is to create a pale ale, not unlike jayses skunkfart recipes, but instead of loading up the cascade hops for that "little creatures" taste, i wanted to get a vanilla aroma and slight taste. My thoughts were to just use the cascade for bittering and maybe a 15min boil addition and then a couple of vanilla beans scraped out into the secondary.

thoughts??? :blink:

Cheerio

Dazzling

 

[Steve]

dazzling - do a search for vanilla.....i definately remember reading something similar a while ago

 

[Jye]

Hey Dazzling

This sound interesting so keep me posted on what you end up doing

Jye

 

[Dazzling]

Yeah the only real thing I can find is Doc's vanilla bourbon porter. Will have a look on morebeer and beer tools and see what comes up.

Cheers

Dazzling

 

[bonk]

the one thing i found with the vanilla is that it fades rather quicky.

it might be best in the 2nd fermenter or putting some in the keg.

 

[tangent]

some types of oak leave a vanilla/butter taste and smell
that might be worth a go
(staves or chips instead of buying barrels)

 

[sluggerdog]

maybe vanilla extract would be better? Not the cheap stuff but the proper extract.

 

[Andrew]

By all means use diced vanilla pods in secondary, but do not get lazy and add them to your keg. They'll make your beer foam like crazy when you pour!
Cheers!

 

[jayse]

I think I remember reading somewhere the idea about the vanilla/bourbon beer was to give something to the beer which would reasonble that of a beer stored in a whiskey barrel, The vannilla supposedly being a similar flavour to that of the oak. I don't know personally one way or the other.
The idea of vannilla in a APA doesn't sit to well with me though but who am I to stop you.
Brew on

Jayse