Hello all! I'm going to bite and will volunteer as organizer this year...
For the unfamiliar, here's the concept...(you can also check out last year's thread):
- 12 different brewers each brew one of the "12 Beers of Christmas" -- recipes from Randy Mosher's book Radical Brewing.
- We each send the other 11 brewers a few (last year it was three 12 oz longnecks to each).
If you do the math, you will need to bottle most of your batch in 12 oz bottles, as you will be sending 33 beers out, and will be receiving 33 beers in return. I'd like to get an early a start this year (I'm already brewing the Caramel Quad...) as many of these beers do need a bit of aging, being stronger beers. I've actually saved some from last year to drink this year! You could brew at any point now, the earlier the better for some recipes. Assuming you bottle carb/condition, and your not bottling from a keg, you should be thinking about bottling by late Oct/early Nov at the latest. We'll be talking about shipping sometime right after Thanksgiving/first week of December.
It does cost a bit to mail out all the boxes, but it was definitely worth it for me last year -- a great experience to share and experience others' homebrew, and some great experimental recipes!
If any interested brewers don't have access to the book, PM me and I can forward the recipes. Note that a couple of these are lagers, so please, any lager-capable brewers concentrate on those...
Here are the beers:
1) Caramel Quadrupel (biochemedic) Silver cap w/ black 'Q'
2) Spiced Cherry Dubbel (Pint_destroyer)
3) Spiced Dunkel Weizenbock (MasterJeem) N/A - MIA brewer
4) Juniper Rye Bock (dgez) Silver cap w/ black 'J'
5) Fruitcake Old Ale (SavoryChef) Fancy Label: 'Fruitcake Old Ale'
6) Saffron Tripel (Piratwolf) White Label: 'Saffron Tripel / Saffron Strong Saison' w/ OG/FG/yeast strain notation
7) Christmas Gruit (Shuznuts) Fancy Label: 'Christmas Gruit'
8) Honey Ginger IPA (RedBeard1) Fancy Label: 'Thistlehair'
9) Crabapple Lambicky Ale (Clanchief) Fancy Label: 'Crabapple Lambicky Ale'
10) Gingerbread Ale (sfrisby) Fancy Label: 'Gingerbread Porter,' waxed cap
11) Spiced Bourbon Stout (Draygon)
12) Abbey Weizen (jtakacs) Silver cap w/ black '33'
EDIT: I will start posting the names of volunteer brewers next to the respective recipes once they commit to being part of the project. In interest of fairness, I'm going to make this first come first served when it comes to recipe choice. If there's enough interest; ie, a lot of the brewers from last year also want to do this again, we could consider making a second 12 brewer group and just have 2 separate lists...
For the unfamiliar, here's the concept...(you can also check out last year's thread):
- 12 different brewers each brew one of the "12 Beers of Christmas" -- recipes from Randy Mosher's book Radical Brewing.
- We each send the other 11 brewers a few (last year it was three 12 oz longnecks to each).
If you do the math, you will need to bottle most of your batch in 12 oz bottles, as you will be sending 33 beers out, and will be receiving 33 beers in return. I'd like to get an early a start this year (I'm already brewing the Caramel Quad...) as many of these beers do need a bit of aging, being stronger beers. I've actually saved some from last year to drink this year! You could brew at any point now, the earlier the better for some recipes. Assuming you bottle carb/condition, and your not bottling from a keg, you should be thinking about bottling by late Oct/early Nov at the latest. We'll be talking about shipping sometime right after Thanksgiving/first week of December.
It does cost a bit to mail out all the boxes, but it was definitely worth it for me last year -- a great experience to share and experience others' homebrew, and some great experimental recipes!
If any interested brewers don't have access to the book, PM me and I can forward the recipes. Note that a couple of these are lagers, so please, any lager-capable brewers concentrate on those...
Here are the beers:
1) Caramel Quadrupel (biochemedic) Silver cap w/ black 'Q'
2) Spiced Cherry Dubbel (Pint_destroyer)
3) Spiced Dunkel Weizenbock (MasterJeem) N/A - MIA brewer
4) Juniper Rye Bock (dgez) Silver cap w/ black 'J'
5) Fruitcake Old Ale (SavoryChef) Fancy Label: 'Fruitcake Old Ale'
6) Saffron Tripel (Piratwolf) White Label: 'Saffron Tripel / Saffron Strong Saison' w/ OG/FG/yeast strain notation
7) Christmas Gruit (Shuznuts) Fancy Label: 'Christmas Gruit'
8) Honey Ginger IPA (RedBeard1) Fancy Label: 'Thistlehair'
9) Crabapple Lambicky Ale (Clanchief) Fancy Label: 'Crabapple Lambicky Ale'
10) Gingerbread Ale (sfrisby) Fancy Label: 'Gingerbread Porter,' waxed cap
11) Spiced Bourbon Stout (Draygon)
12) Abbey Weizen (jtakacs) Silver cap w/ black '33'
EDIT: I will start posting the names of volunteer brewers next to the respective recipes once they commit to being part of the project. In interest of fairness, I'm going to make this first come first served when it comes to recipe choice. If there's enough interest; ie, a lot of the brewers from last year also want to do this again, we could consider making a second 12 brewer group and just have 2 separate lists...