(Summer) Christmas Ale

[Langchop]

Hi Guys,

I was looking for a recipe for a spicy (cinnamon, cloves,pimento etc) ale that is not a dark stout or similar and with very little to find decided I want to just make together my own.

I imagine an AIPA like base to then try and augment with such spicy flavours.

Can anyone recommend what hops/ yeast/malt varieties would be good to bring out good spicy flavours together with some citrussy zing (hence the AIPA choice). I would probably add some of said spices directly as well. Not too sure when and how is the best way to add these.

Any recommendations would be great!

PS. 'Summer' because I am in southern hemisphere

 

[kevin58]

I don't know if you will find what you want here but I just stumbled across this website last night. It is the site of Mob Craft Brewery in Wisconsin. They do a lot of specialty spiced beers and all of their recipes are on their website. They've even scaled them down to 5 gallon batches for homebrewers.

https://www.mobcraftbeer.com/vault

PS. they have one called Tom and Jerry Christmas ale that may fit your bill.... its a spiced cream ale.

 

[Langchop]

That's a really great find Kevin , thank you... Got some good ideas of good ingredients to use just browsing through some of those recipes.