Gingerbread Ale Base Beer Hopping

[TheDarkSide]

I am planning on brewing a Gingerbread Ale beer soon and my base beer is going to be a basic Brown Ale ( 2-row, carapils, a little chocolate, etc ). I have a question on the hopping.

I don't want the hops to dominate, so I was thinking about just doing a single bittering hop addition, coming in about 30 IBU's on a 1.058 beer. Then adding spice to the boil and a little to the keg.

Will this be missing something by not having late additions and dry hop? If a late addition is warranted, what hops would be good to compliment the spice? I plan on bittering with Magnum the I bought from Nikobrew.

Thanks.

[speed]

i make a jalapeno beer that i use only bittering hops. i use saaz, about 1 oz. i don't want them to fight with the jalapeno flavor.

[Bugeater]

You definitely won't want to dry hop this. If you want to add a flavor hop, use a nice floral hop like hallertauer either as a late addition or, better yet, as a first wort hop. For FWH, figure the bittering the same as a 20 minute addition. If you do that, be sure to cut back the bittering hops so you maintain the same ibu's.

Wayne

[Pharmbrewer]

The Dark side,
Howed this beer come out? I was thinking of doing something similar. What spices did you use? What did you end up doing with the hops?

I was thinking of doing an amber with some molasses and brown sugar then spicing with nutmeg, clove, ginger, and cinnamon.

PB

[ElectricLandlord]

I brewed a beer based on the Yorkshire cake called Parkin, using black treacle (molasses), oats & ginger. I just used a simple bittering addition so the hops didn't clash with the ginger.

When it first went into the keg the ginger was a bit dominant, but it dropped away over a few weeks and turned out to be one of the best beers I've ever brewed. I'll try and dig the recipe out when I get internet back at home.