Do you want to brew one of the 12 beers of Christmas?

[Scruffy1207]

It looks like most people are up for shipping 3 bottles.
-someone said one of the spiced beers may be a little short so he can't get 36 beers out of it?
-shipping should be the same cost for 2 or 3 beers so we that is a plus
-currently we have all twelve brews spoken for and there usernames should be beside the beer in the original post.
- FWIW, my juniper rye bock is bubbling along at a cool 49 degrees for the last 5 days.

Great news! We should do this for every season imo lol. I'm doing my first AG Tonight, if that goes well I'll probably do the IPA AG.

 

[Xcorpia]

Great news! We should do this for every season imo lol. I'm doing my first AG Tonight, if that goes well I'll probably do the IPA AG.

Hope your AG goes well. My Ginger Snap Ale is my 2nd AG.

 

[Scruffy1207]

My AG keeps getting pushed back. Doing it sunday for sure, stove top AG 2g batch. Grats on the AG switch.

 

[spyder2723]

Well the fruitcake old ale is bottled and ready to go when ever we ship. Ended up with 43 bottles damn fruit drinking all my beer. But I would still like to ship 3 if possible.

 

[rhoadsrage]

That sounds good. Just started the deep sleep for my bock today.

 

[doctorRobert]

I hate to do this. But I'm not going to be able to participate. I'm in a bit of a financial pickle, and brewing is going to be one of the first things to go. I was really looking forward to this, but I have to put my family's well being first. I know a batch a beer to many isnt very expensive, but to me it can be when you include the opportunity cost of taking some time of work.

I know this makes me a ******. I hope you guys have enough notice to find somebody else to brew the spiced stout.

 

[rhoadsrage]

No worries, doc. I always but family first. Perhaps next time.

Cheers.

 

[Willum]

I finally was able to brew the Spiced Dunkel Weizenbock yesterday. I recently started a new job, so I am not able to brew as often as I would like to. It is fermenting like crazy and it should be ready to mail out as soon early November, but naturally the longer it gets to age the better it will be. So, whenever we figure out an exact time period I will keg it up and carb it.

 

[rhoadsrage]

Nice. Don't you hate when work gets in the way of brewing.

I will be brewing the spiced stout in early sept. and the spices are marinating in bourbon soon.

 

[biochemedic]

Nice. Don't you hate when work gets in the way of brewing.

I will be brewing the spiced stout in early sept. and the spices are marinating in bourbon soon.

Cool, so you're taking over the spiced stout yourself...I had wondered if we were going to be able to get someone to brew that.

The Gruit is pretty much done...I may actually even bottle it today, but if not, it will be another week or two. Either way, will be good and conditioned and ready to ship by mid to late September.

 

[Willum]

Nice. Don't you hate when work gets in the way of brewing.

I will be brewing the spiced stout in early sept. and the spices are marinating in bourbon soon.

Indeed, but it is a pretty good job. I landed a job as the Network Administrator for a public library. So keep paying those taxes

 

[usfmikeb]

Spiced Cherry Dubbel has been on the cherries for three weeks, needs at least one more week. I might even leave it on the cherries even longer, perhaps six weeks in total.

 

[Xcorpia]

I will be brewing the spiced stout in early sept. and the spices are marinating in bourbon soon.

Cool. That means each one of us will send you 6 beers each.

 

[rhoadsrage]

Yeah, we will only need to ship out 10 packages. and I have to clear some space in my fridge. : dancing santa banana:

 

[biochemedic]

Well, the Gruit is bottled! I can't believe what a beast this yeast (Wyeast 3711) is...it went down to 1.007 (surprisingly, there still seems to be a pretty decent mouthfeel), and as a result, even though my OG/efficiency was lower than expected (I think it had to do with the high percentage of wheat malt) the ABV is 8.9%! I suppose it's a good thing I didn't hit the predicted OG of 1.090! (woud've been 11%! :cross

I can't wait to see how this one comes across when carbonated...the samples at bottling were really neat...I was surprised that the smoked malt didn't come across much...perhaps would bump it up to a pound brewing this one again...

 

[manhattanksbrewer]

Does anyone have this recipie?

 

[rhoadsrage]

Sure they day I take the book out of my work bag is the day I need it. I can look it up tonight and get it to you sometime this weekend.

 

[manhattanksbrewer]

Sure they day I take the book out of my work bag is the day I need it. I can look it up tonight and get it to you sometime this weekend.

Thanks

 

[Xcorpia]

SO I FINALLY bottled my gingersnap beer. This is one tasty brew. It tastes EXACTLY like Trader Joe's triple gingersnaps. It's so good I almost feel like not sharing it LOL! Anyhow, I hope it carbs and ages well.

 

[sfrisby]

This is an awesome idea! I want in next year.

 

[Horace]

With HUGE regrets I am out.

I'll spare you guys all of the details and sum it up this way;

We went out of town several weeks ago. The girl watching our house brought several friends over as she took care of stuff. One of the guys saw the beer and decided to help himself. Using an empty carboy he siphoned off, I'm guessing, two plus gallons and replaced the beer with water. He stashed the beer in the yard and came back for it later that night.

He has admitted to taking the beer and that the girl knew nothing about it. One guy kept her distracted while the other one did the dirty work. Who knows the truth, it doesn't really matter.

Time, Money, Beer and a Carboy ... History

 

[Xcorpia]

...speechless...I don't know how I would have reacted if it were me.

We might want to look for an alternative beer because according to the recipe the Crabapple Lambicky Ale takes at least 3 months. I did a raspberry lambicky brown ale that everyone raves about.

 

[sfrisby]

With a prerequisite MAYBE, I would like to offer up a beer to take the previous poster's place. I have a Belgian quad that I will be bottling in a week or so. 1/2 was regular, 1/2 was bourbon Oaked. How much would I need (assuming it is share worthy when I taste it). From the thread it looks like 3 bottles each to 11 other folks. Is that the jist? Is that something you all would be interested in?

And buddy, I can't believe others would pull of a stunt like that. I don't know how you didn't get violent when confronting the guy.

 

[Xcorpia]

Yes, it's 3 beers each. I'm also willing to offer my raspberry lambicky ale. That way I'll get 6 beers each

 

[rhoadsrage]

Wow that is crazy. Truth is stranger than fiction.
I bottled the Juniper bock this weekend, it has a subtle juniper hint but we will see what carbonation brings. And I hope you all like spiced soy sauce toothpaste?! I racked the spiced bourbon stout into glass to let it drop a few more points and mix with the spices. It smelled like Chinese toothpaste, some roasted black malt with anise is an odd combo. I blended the hydrometer sample with some of the spiced tincture and it was pleasant after chilled so keep your fingers crossed.

sfrisby, we have one quad being brewed, but I would never turn down another, there is no lambicky so we might take Xcorpia up on his offer. What do others think?

 

[biochemedic]

Wow that is crazy. Truth is stranger than fiction.
I bottled the Juniper bock this weekend, it has a subtle juniper hint but we will see what carbonation brings. And I hope you all like spiced soy sauce toothpaste?! I racked the spiced bourbon stout into glass to let it drop a few more points and mix with the spices. It smelled like Chinese toothpaste, some roasted black malt with anise is an odd combo. I blended the hydrometer sample with some of the spiced tincture and it was pleasant after chilled so keep your fingers crossed.

sfrisby, we have one quad being brewed, but I would never turn down another, there is no lambicky so we might take Xcorpia up on his offer. What do others think?

I think all of these brews are going to be much better with some time and aging. I'm sure the Juniper Bock will be fine...

I'm willing for others to volunteer substitutes for missing brews in the 12, as long as they fit (generally) in with the idea of a holiday brew. Either the lambicky or quad would be OK (or both if we need 2 substitues...where are we on the brew list anyway?), and the raspberry would certainly be a more direct substitute for the crabapple brew, although I have to say I *really* like the sound of a bourbon oaked quad!

As an aside, I've found that the local WalMart has pretty inexpensive packing supplies. I got a huge roll of bubble wrap for about 15 bucks (should be way more than I need for this job of packing 33 bottles), and 12 x 12 boxes are less than a buck...I think that size will be enough to pack 3 bottles (will have to see after packing in the bubble wrap but they have a couple other sizes as well...going to also package each bottle/bubble wrap unit individually in its own large ziplock).

 

[Xcorpia]

I'm already done with the gingersnap ale- labels and all . Just give me the word and I'll start the raspberry lambicky ale -or not if you choose the quad. Doesn't matter to me. Beer is beer

 

[spyder2723]

The old ale is finished, bottled and ready to ship when everyone is ready. I tasted one of them last night since it has been in the bottle about 5 weeks. Tastes pretty good I think, the fruit is there but not as strong as I thought it would be. Has a good amount of alcohol, I was feeling it about 3/4 of the way through, but not a hot alcohol flavor. I am looking forward to others tasting it.

As for the replacement, I am with Xcorpia, beer is beer.

 

[rhoadsrage]

The news:
Native 302 is out, he is still deployed so no Saffron Tripel but that means sfrizbe with the quad and Xcorpa with her raspberry lambicky are both in to fill positions.

So we still have 12 beers in the mix. I try to keep the 1st post up to date as a rooster if you ever need to check.


Cheers.
andy

 

[Scruffy1207]

Sounds good, so we're sending Xcorpa 6 beers?