Previously I had indicated that I was going to brew "Bock Your Brains Out" next, but because of the pending holidays I decided to move another beer ahead. BYBO will still be brewed and if I can find the time during this busy holiday season it will be in the fermentor before Christmas. Most likely though I will brew BYBO over my Christmas holiday.

So what jumped ahead? As the title says it was Saucy Winter Ale. It starts as a regular brown ale and then gets "pimped out" with nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and dried orange peels. It sure smells like a holiday. OK, it sure smells like a holiday if you know what a beer smells like before it goes into the fermentor. I missed my gravity target again, but this time the target was high enough that the final alcohol yield should be acceptable.

For anyone who doesn't know about Thanksmas it is the only holiday where "you get what you want, as long as you bring it." Truly there is not a finer holiday that mixes the greatness of Thanksgiving (ridiculous amounts of food - not the destruction of an indigenous people) with the friends gathering power of Christmas. Mix in unnecessary amounts of alcohol and you have one heck of a party.

Make sure you watch "how i met your mother" tomorrow night at 8:30 on CBS.

¶ 16:00