SantaClaus
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I brewed a Christmas ale a few months ago. Well I got the brilliant idea to add some Oak chips I had to the secondary to give it that oak barrel aged flavor. Well the chips sat in the secondary, and the secondary sat in a back closet in my basement for the past couple months. Basically, I forgot about it. I kegged the beer last week, and while the flavor and beer turned out pretty good, it is seriously dominated by the oak taste. Anyone have any ideas of how to balance this out?
I thought about adding some spice and flavor to round out the oaky-bite. I tried adding a couple drops of vanilla extract to a pint and found it rounded out the flavor some; and thought maybe that and a little fresh ground nutmeg might do the trick. Anyone else have any ideas?
PS: I'm looking to serve this at our annual Ugly Christmas Sweater party in 1 1/2 weeks, so I don't have a ton of time.
Thanks
I brewed a Christmas ale a few months ago. Well I got the brilliant idea to add some Oak chips I had to the secondary to give it that oak barrel aged flavor. Well the chips sat in the secondary, and the secondary sat in a back closet in my basement for the past couple months. Basically, I forgot about it. I kegged the beer last week, and while the flavor and beer turned out pretty good, it is seriously dominated by the oak taste. Anyone have any ideas of how to balance this out?
I thought about adding some spice and flavor to round out the oaky-bite. I tried adding a couple drops of vanilla extract to a pint and found it rounded out the flavor some; and thought maybe that and a little fresh ground nutmeg might do the trick. Anyone else have any ideas?
PS: I'm looking to serve this at our annual Ugly Christmas Sweater party in 1 1/2 weeks, so I don't have a ton of time.
Thanks