christmas ale suggestions

[triggertrevor]

Morning all hope your all well on this lovely sunday morning.....!

I am after doing a christmas ale for.........? you guest it and i wass thing of starting with a woodfordes nog kit and adding some bits and bats.

One suggestion is to make up a syrup from a christmas pudding and add that to the kit of add a few cinnamon sticks to the fv and see how that turns out.?

Any other suggestions on this from past experience would be great.

thanks again

kev

[fractureman]

no I have no experience on adding stuff like that to brews mate, Can recommend milestone "old home wrecker" for a nice dark ale, got both of their xmas brews on the go at the moment donner & blitzed & the other one to sample this december

[Jim]

How about a treacle chocolate stout? There was a recipe in the April 2007 Newsletter.

[lancsSteve]

I made this one up nigh on a month ago:

Graham Wheeler's mulled Winter ale

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3700g MO
350g Crystal
250g Chocolate malt
240g Black malt
390g cane sugar

50g northdown [90 mins]

30g Asda mixed spice [15 mins]

OG 1045
30 EBUs
mash temp 67 degrees
23L

Swapped challenger for northdown and used a sachet of mulled wine spices for last 15 minutes of boil rather than asda spices...

Smelled amazing- looking forward to it.

You may want to go lower gravity though to ensure maturation is OK for Xmas...

[Benson_JV]

May i recommend the Brewferm Xmas kit. Perfect for fireside supping after the big meal.

[fractureman]

Thanks Benson, glad I got a Brewfeerm Xmas kit in better get it started so it can be bottled ready for xmas/new year celebrations

[Benson_JV]

No problems, better get it started quick, that brew takes a heck of a while to condition.

[fractureman]

ahh thanks Benson, roughly how long did you leave it in bottles before drinking please. I am going to start it off on friday when my first FV becomes free. I can leave the bottles in the shed for as long as needed so if is beyond new years eve before I can sample then no problems.

Just I was planning a new years eve party with most of the drinks being my home brew

[Benson_JV]

I found it to be quite suppable after around 2 months
But as of so far, it's been in bottles for about a year.