It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. At least around here, where my backyard is covered in leaves and I’ve moved full-time to the all-fender bike. Oh yeah, Mother Nature says Christmas is right around the corner, which means it’s time to trot out my holiday ale recipe.
We’re completely pumped here at Schoen-Brau world headquarters, so here’s my holiday ale recipe that I brewed up this weekend.
- 1.5 lbs Caramel Malt
- Handful of organic British chocolate malt
- 1/2 lbs flaked barley
- 7 lbs light malt extract
- 1.5 lbs Neighborhood Clover Honey
- 1 giant cinnamon stick
- 1/2 oz. orange peel
- Irish Moss
- 1.5 oz Fuggle hops (boiling hops)
- 0.5 oz Fuggle hops (aroma hops)
- White Labs Burton Ale Yeast (WLP023)
Original gravity: 1.045 at 68 degrees.
Between the Fuggle hops, the Burton Ale yeast, and the British chocolate malt, I’m shooting for a Dickensian holiday ale; something ol’ Jacob Marley would’ve toasted Ebenezer with before he kicked it, doomed to haunt the earth for seven years, chained to his usurious past.
So, that’s what I’ll be stuffing in the stocking this year. What’s your holiday ale recipe?
p.s. Mmmm. Holiday ale means Holiday Ale Festival is just around the corner. Get pumped!
