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Honestly I didn't have high hopes for it. I knew better than to use cookie mix with all the crappy ingredients in it. But that's why it was a brewsperiment. Learned what doesn't work !!

So..checked the FG on the experiment Sugar Cookie, 1.010 and the spiced Xmas beer, 1.010. The Sugar cookie was...well ..NOT Sugar Cookie ! Really weird tasting, a bit of funk in the beginning, slight taste of stale sugar cookies in the back of the mouth. Not happy ! Never use cookie mix in the...

I would never presume to correct you ! You are light-years ahead of me in brewing knowledge ! It just triggered a long lost memory. It was 1984..ahem ahem, cough and blush...when I 1st became cast qualified at Wurzburg Army hospital in Germany , and I didn't even utilize those skills much as a...

One of my qualifications in the army was cast tech. It's called a stockinette. If I remember...40 years ago !... stockinette, webro, plaster of Paris. Little hop sacks are pretty much same thing, lighter material.

Sounds like a winner ! Czech is one of my fave styles. But I'll just have to make it along some how with my run of the mill Perlick foam controls 🤣. Some of us can't afford Starwars type advanced gear !!!

Looks wonderful !!!! How's it work ? 😳. Looks like something Boba Fett dropped...

That's a real bummer. Been there done that 2x in my 3 years of kegging.

I'm going to be way late 😵‍💫. Only been a week in the fermenter. I usually won't even look at the fermenter for min 21 days but I'm gonna have to push this one. 2 batches ! I'm usually spot on by the 24th but not this year. What I keg will be ok but the bottles won't be ready. So looks like Xmas...

I love this bucket too ! I make more 3 gallon batches than 5 so it sees more action in the last 2 years than my 2 7 gallon Chapman's. Great little SS bucket that could !!!

Brewed up 4 gallons of White spiced Xmas ale. Was supposed to be 5 but boiled off more than I should have 😵‍💫. I think I got distracted when I was pouring some pre boiled hot water into the sparge pot and forgot to close the spigot ! Gave a whole new meaning to hot foot ! Yikes. Rest went pretty...

Whoa !!!! Only 4 hours later and the sugar cookie is off and running !!!! First hurdle is down. Was worried if there would be too much preservative in the cookie mix that might inhibit the yeasty beasties from kick starting.

It was the weirdest brew I've ever attempted. Mixed up the sugar cookie mix with water. Took more water than I planned on to keep it thin enough and not lump up. About a gallon per package. Then added the concoction to the wort. Added vanilla extract, almond extract and Butter Vanilla emulsion...

It's gonna crash or burn. Learning experience ! 🤣

My bulkhead fitting for the mash tun didn't show up last night and I'm running out of time for my Xmas brews. Fiddled with it and managed to get it to an extremely slow leak like 1 drop every min or so so went with it ..curses to Amazon ! Brewed 3.5 gallons experimental sugar cookie ale, hoping...

Had a good pull of the Honey Brown to celebrate my Maize and Blue ! BIG 10 champs ! Go Blue !

I'm sooooo jealous!!!! I keep asking my wife to get me one of those every year !!! She always says I have too many beers already

All those look fantastic!

That's my fave ingredient ! I love nutmeg !! I dump an ounce of that stuff in my eggnog ! I use fresh nutmeg , scrape it from whole nutmeg.

Was supposed to be my Christmas beer brew day... supposed to be. Gathered all the equipment and soon as I started filling the mash tun with rinse water, leaking big time. Tightened the bulk head, leaking, took off, rewrapped some pipe tape, leaking even more !!! Uggggg!! Dug through the spare...

Butter Vanilla emulsion and Sugar Cookie extract. Gonna try a small batch , maybe 1.5 or 2.5 gallon of experimental Sugar Cookie Christmas brew. I'm already making a 5 gal white Christmas Ale with the ubiquitous vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and sweet orange peel so if this small batch crashes and...