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What are you brewing for the holidays?

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What are you brewing for the holidays?

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I just started bottling my Cranberry Stout. Not a bad result for an experiment.

The aroma is all deep chocolate, the flavour tart cranberry and the after taste is a mellow oatmeal stout. I'd say I guessed pretty well with the recipe, but next time I would use a little less cranberries. It took a solid month of conditioning to balance enough.

Anybody got some cool holiday recipe in the fermenter?
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Might try another Mini brew (12L) in the apartment after what seems to be a successful entry for SonofaBoneshaker. If it gets nice though I'll definitely take it outside, wouldn't mind trying to make a nice spring bock if the weather and temps cooperate.

I recently bottled a Christmas Pumpkin ale (details in the What are you brewing now thread) that I can see repeating with a few tweaks for next year.
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icemachine wrote:Might try another Mini brew (12L) in the apartment after what seems to be a successful entry for SonofaBoneshaker.
I'm going to try doing one this week for Boneshaker, a Belgian IPA. It gives me just enough time to ferment, dryhop and bottle before the close of the competition.
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A pale ale and an ordinary bitter. Noble hops in the pale ale and UK target and US Challenger in the bitter.
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made a chocolate vanilla porter last week, we'll see how it turns out.
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Post by cannondale »

I have a dubbel that I brewed for christmas several months ago. Looking forward to that once it's carbed up.

I will brew during the holidays. Maybe a rye IPA, but haven't decided yet.
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Post by elproducto »

Got my new Barley Crusher, so I'm going to put that through it's paces. Working on my House Pale Ale, so I'll probably fire up 5 gallons of that.
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