Looking for a Christmas Beer Recipe with Spruce tips

[kt]

Anyone got a good one?

I was thinking something with a little spruce, cinnamon maybe some cloves.  Quite high in alcohol, 6-8%.  Maybe to sip in July, but would preview it on xmas day too

Cheers,
-kt

[jazzyj]

That is a unique beer. Might be hard to find a good local recipe, so maybe searching the american recipe sites like beersmith.com might yield the best results

[kt]

Yeah.

I found out my supply of spruce tips was (probably) not spruce.
I should go buy a tree before xmas is upon us and they're wrapped in ribbon and doubled in price.

So I gave up and made "Christmoose Ale" off the AHB forums.
Made the extract version since I made it with a friend, and he doesn't do all-grain.

It smelled a bit like plumb pudding, but I tasted the warm wort and it was horrible. That's ok I guess, since most warm wort is not the best. I've just got to keep it cool now.

[jazzyj]

Now that I am not on a mobile, I looked up a few spruce recipes. I am astonished how much spruce is being added. I am seeing up to 1/2 a kilo of tips in the boil. Either they don't add much flavour at all, or that is a massive misprint.

Anyway the Christmas Ale sounds good. Let us know how it goes.

[kt]

The tasting notes on this beer - it's OK.

For my palette there's a little bit too much clove, and the orange is missing.

Halve the clove, double the orange.

Maybe I'll being some to the next meeting.

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