A Wherry Merry Christmas?

[twentyfootwilf]

I'm going to get my christmas brew on the go next week. My plan is to use the two cans from a Wherry as the base, it's described as having an aroma of malt and citrus fruit with a crisp citrussy palette with malt and fine hop notes so it sounds a bit festive as a base. I intend to use 250g crystal malt and 100g of chocolate malt and 20g soft dark brown sugar. I will boil up and steep 100g dried orange peel a couple of cinnamon sticks some nutmeg and some coriander seeds for the spice addition and I've got some citrus hop aroma oil to add prior to bottling. I'm intending to brew it to 20 litres. I've also got 500g of medium dme but thought that might overdo the malt and abv somewhat. Any thoughts please?

[seymour]

Sounds delicous. Just two more words for you: pureed cranberries.

[twentyfootwilf]

I hadn't thought of cranberries!

[Monkeybrew]

How long are you going to bake it for in the oven?

Cheers

MB

[twentyfootwilf]

I definitely want beer, not christmas cake! Though don't mind a bit of cake with a cup of tea

[lee1]

tea with cake its beer with cake enjoy