In addition to brewing the chocolate oatmeal stout and transferring the IPA to yet a third carboy (more on that later), we also bottled our Christmas Ale (name to be determined, suggestions welcome, comment away people!!)
In the end, we have 3 swing top lite bottles and about 14 22oz bottles of the Christmas ale currently carbonating with some priming sugar. We also took 2 liters and force carbonated with CO2 and chilled it that night... and wow, it was really good! Definitely the most interesting beer we've brewed to date and BY FAR the most experimental. Somehow, the cinnamon, nutmeg, flaked oatmeal, vanilla, honey, maltodextrin, and oak chips came together and was really refreshing. We even got the thumbs up from Sonia, which is apparently not easy (or so Brad says...)
In about 2 weeks we hope for the Christmas Ale to be properly conditioned and ready to drink... at which point we'll be giving out some bottles to friends to try and give us some feedback!
Beers we drank tonight:
Mayflower Thanksgiving Ale - just delicious. Brad and I are both completely enamored with Mayflower's beers. So glad they are starting to bottle their seasonals so I can enjoy them at home.
Olfabrikken Porter - Holy smokiness, the scandanavian countries really know how to brew porters.
Founders Backwoods Bastard - Woody, sweet, warming, delicious. Founders is magical when it comes to wood aging beers, and one of my favorites didn't disappoint again in this year's run.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment