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Aup me little toffee puddin's

After getting fed up of looking for a good christmas brew , i decided to make one up , with help from other peoples post (thanks )

right, here we go..

25l IBU 45

6000 gms pale malt
200 gms cyrystal malt
300 gms choclate malt
110 gms torrified wheat
300 3ms brewing suger

90 minute mast at 67'c

64gms Northdaown hops ( FWH)
50 Boadicea hops (late hops)
last 15 minutes added
4 , 3inch cinnoman sticks
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
4 orenge yest

yeast - recultured Brakspar tripple yeast

i only tuck a couple of pics



the late addittions



the mash



first hops in, IC in there too



the OG came out 1.066

it smells and tastes lovly, very christmasy, cant wait too see how it comes out, i may add some ginger once the fermentation has died down,
was a nice smooth brewday, althoug there was a twist in one of my IC hoses and the connection started spraying stream out then burst open..no biggy, two minutes to fix and back on with cooling,

thanks again to Flytact,Deebee and Likesbeer for your posts in the recipe section.

Certainly sounds tasty, No name for it yet??
Santas Sack?? Sleigh Lube??

pdtnc wrote:Certainly sounds tasty, No name for it yet??
Santas Sack?? Sleigh Lube??

no name as yet but nice suggestions! ill bare those in mind

100% you have to have a daft name for it thats half the point of an xmas beer its also how you know it'll be good (I wish)
I'd encourage a bit of ginger recon it might give it that nice toasty warm fealing on the way down, a pint to have with slippers and a pipe infront of a roaring fire.
When did you chuck the spices in?

Sounds great, hope it turns out well mate!

i think your right with the ginger likesbeer, i picked some up today, im going to boil up say a tea spoon with about 200ml of water and stick in,in a couple of days, i think that wil work....

i put the spices in with the late hops, last 15 minutes.

cheers duck.

rick_huggins wrote:Sounds great, hope it turns out well mate!

thanks, did you have any luck with your recipe for xmas?

that sounds excellent!

Loving the ingredients list, so should be a nice drink.

what about santa's baubels?

i could name it after one of my favorate christmas songs ' Santa was a skinhead'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIo8taKm ... re=related

kevthebootboy wrote:

rick_huggins wrote:Sounds great, hope it turns out well mate!

thanks, did you have any luck with your recipe for xmas?

I'm getting there; i'm sure it'll be along the same lines as yours... Love the colour of yours and I'll bet the taste is bang on for bonnie night and xmas... Must get fired in there soon!!

I'll prolly use OP as a baseline and work from there with strength and put my fav hops in there, cascade, challenger, bobeks, brambling and let it mature till xmas.

Regarding a name for yours; hows about "Santa's suede head schwally"?

yeah OP is great place to start, love that ale, ive meaning to d a clone for a good while now...right back to names....

' Ebenezer's bell'
'The ghost of christams hangover'
'Tiny tim's pissed again'

im rubbish at naming ales..

That looks good to me. Should be right Festive....

How about: "Festive Fistfight", or "Christmas Crowbar"

Glad it worked well for you. Looks great so far!

That looks great, I may just plagiarise that (if you don’t mind ) a little. When the cinnamon etc go in does, is that last 15 min to? What difference would it make to leave the brewing sugar out (I’m a bit of a purist )?

Thanks

Go for Vargflock what a great name.
Santa's got a skin head goes for me as well.
Hope it comes out well