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What are you brewing for the holidays?
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:13 pm
by Tapsucker
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?
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:36 pm
by icemachine
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:50 pm
by phirleh
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:47 pm
by Swampale
A pale ale and an ordinary bitter. Noble hops in the pale ale and UK target and US Challenger in the bitter.
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:25 am
by bufordsbest
made a chocolate vanilla porter last week, we'll see how it turns out.
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:39 pm
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.
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:45 pm
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.