Bottling - Holiday Brew

Last night we bottled the Tomten's Jul Öl, a holiday ale to be uncapped around Thanksgiving. The aroma of brown sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon wafted out of the bottling bucket, creating strong anticipation of the final results. This beer was brewed on 6/21/2009 and has been aging in a secondary vessel since. With a finishing gravity of 1.018, this brew should come in around 5.33% ABV, enough to provide some decent holiday cheer.

The successful bottling yielded twenty-six 22oz. bottles, one half-liter bottle, and one 25.5oz. bottle.

The tomten is a mythical Swedish gnome associated with Christmas (duties similar to Santa Claus). Jul Öl roughly translates to Christmas beer.