The Christmas recipe thread

[Piscator]

There's a few threads appearing regarding Christmas recipes so I thought I'd make a space to bring them all together so please feel free to add your own liquid Christmas ideas.................................

Having given it some thought here is my planned brew which I need to get a wriggle on with pretty soon:

Fermentable Colour Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 4800 grams 89.7%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 250 grams 4.7%
Chocolate Malt 1050 EBC 100 grams 1.9%
Sugar 0 EBC 200 grams 3.7%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Northdown Whole 8.3 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 1.3 oz 36 grams 30%
Northdown Whole 8.3 % 15 mins 0 lbs. 0.9 oz 24 grams 20%
Challenger Whole 7.6 % 15 mins 0 lbs. 0.9 oz 27 grams 22%
Challenger Whole 7.6 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 1.2 oz 34 grams 28%


Final Volume: 25 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.058
Final Gravity: 1.013
Alcohol Content: 5.9% ABV
Total Liquor: 35.7 Litres
Mash Liquor: 15.5 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 90 %
Bitterness: 45 EBU
Colour: 58 EBC

[Dennis King]

I will probably brew TTL, always a top classy brew to serve to the horde of relees coming round.

[Barley Water]

I don't know that I have a recipe for a Christmas beer per se but I always think of really strong stuff around the holidays for a couple of reasons. First of all, as noted above, relatives stop by and God knows, you don't what to have to deal with that completely sober. Secondly, I seem to always spend money like water which stresses me out so I need a restorative to handle that also. Anyway, for Christmas I always think of the strong Belgian ales (and they have a spiritual tie in also) as well at Scotch Wee Heavy, Barley Wine and from the lager side of the house Double Bock.

[Piscator]

I like the idea of strong beer to cope with relatives

I tend to want a strong dark hoppy ale for supping and for some reason I also tend to favour hefe weiss beers around Christmas - perhaps its the clove aspect?

[Piscator]

Well it's in the fermenter but not quite as initially planned......................

I decided at the last moment to push it over into Porter territory and took the chocolate malt up to 250g and added 100g of black malt.

I managed 27ltrs at 1.055 which will do for me and the fermenter is going crazy with 2 inches of krausen within 5 hours of pitching

[flytact]

Winter Warmer 2010
40L
Estimated OG: 1.069 SG
Estimated Color: 15.7 SRM
Estimated IBU: 39.5 IBU

8.16 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
1.59 kg Mild Malt
0.91 kg Munich Malt
0.80 kg Caramalt
0.80 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
42.52 gm Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min)
28.35 gm Mt. Hood [4.40 %] (15 min)
14.11 gm Centennial [9.40 %] (15 min)
28.35 gm Centennial [9.40 %] Steep
28.23 gm Mt. Hood [4.40 %] Steep
2 Pkgs European Ale (Wyeast Labs #1338)

[Tony01]

I seem to always spend money like water which stresses me out so I need a restorative to handle that

You and me both!