I'm trying to brew my own Norwegian "juleol", or Christmas beer. I'm a
frequent homebrewer, not for profit but pure pleasure as a hobby. I have
brewed several beers, lagers, and mead as well, so I'm not unskilled, just
lacking in juleol resources.

What I'm looking for is advice and tips from anyone who might have tried
this before, even if you failed, hindsight can be helpful too.

Advice appreciated.

Chris

Randy Mosher's book "Radical Brewing" has several pages on Christmas Beers
and a whole chapter on different spices and ideas for experimentation. I
knew I remembered seeing the term "Jul-ol" before, and it was in his book as
I thought, but it is only in there as a caption under several labels from
different Jul-ol beers (in the section on Chrismas beers). If Jul-ol is a
generic reference to spiced Christmas beers, his book might be worth
checking out for you. If it is a specific kind of Christmas beer than maybe
or maybe not as there is not a recipe specifically listed as Jul-ol. He has
a number of Christmas beer recipes though. For what its worth, I would
recommend this book in any case and even more so if you have a leaning
towards beers with interesting spices or other exotic ingridients.



"Chris" <rrufiange@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to brew my own Norwegian "juleol", or Christmas beer. I'm a
> frequent homebrewer, not for profit but pure pleasure as a hobby. I have
> brewed several beers, lagers, and mead as well, so I'm not unskilled, just
> lacking in juleol resources.
>
> What I'm looking for is advice and tips from anyone who might have tried
> this before, even if you failed, hindsight can be helpful too.
>
> Advice appreciated.
>
> Chris
>
>[/color]

"JL" <jlewis80@columbus.rr.ixnayspamsay.com> wrote in message
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> Randy Mosher's book "Radical Brewing" has several pages on Christmas Beers
> and a whole chapter on different spices and ideas for experimentation. I
> knew I remembered seeing the term "Jul-ol" before, and it was in his book[/color]
as[color=blue]
> I thought, but it is only in there as a caption under several labels from
> different Jul-ol beers (in the section on Chrismas beers). If Jul-ol is a
> generic reference to spiced Christmas beers, his book might be worth
> checking out for you. If it is a specific kind of Christmas beer than[/color]
maybe[color=blue]
> or maybe not as there is not a recipe specifically listed as Jul-ol. He[/color]
has[color=blue]
> a number of Christmas beer recipes though. For what its worth, I would
> recommend this book in any case and even more so if you have a leaning
> towards beers with interesting spices or other exotic ingridients.[/color]

Thanks!

I'm actually trying to brew my "own" Juleol, but using a traditional base to
work from. It will be a Norwegian brew, but I find plenty of brand names
and labels, nothing in terms of recipe. I've had to work from the ground
up, researching beer spices and herbs from the Viking age. I'm going to
attempt to make this a "gruit", rather than use hops. So I've been reading
all the toxicology information, trying to make this both traditional as well
as safe. Some of the old gruit herbs were potentially dangerous.

He covers gruit in his book too as well as recreating historical styles...
"Chris" <rrufiange@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "JL" <jlewis80@columbus.rr.ixnayspamsay.com> wrote in message
> news:A0QTe.5398$uD6.2469@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...[color=green]
> > Randy Mosher's book "Radical Brewing" has several pages on Christmas[/color][/color]
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> > and a whole chapter on different spices and ideas for experimentation.[/color][/color]
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> > knew I remembered seeing the term "Jul-ol" before, and it was in his[/color][/color]
book[color=blue]
> as[color=green]
> > I thought, but it is only in there as a caption under several labels[/color][/color]
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> > different Jul-ol beers (in the section on Chrismas beers). If Jul-ol is[/color][/color]
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> > generic reference to spiced Christmas beers, his book might be worth
> > checking out for you. If it is a specific kind of Christmas beer than[/color]
> maybe[color=green]
> > or maybe not as there is not a recipe specifically listed as Jul-ol. He[/color]
> has[color=green]
> > a number of Christmas beer recipes though. For what its worth, I would
> > recommend this book in any case and even more so if you have a leaning
> > towards beers with interesting spices or other exotic ingridients.[/color]
>
> Thanks!
>
> I'm actually trying to brew my "own" Juleol, but using a traditional base[/color]
to[color=blue]
> work from. It will be a Norwegian brew, but I find plenty of brand names
> and labels, nothing in terms of recipe. I've had to work from the ground
> up, researching beer spices and herbs from the Viking age. I'm going to
> attempt to make this a "gruit", rather than use hops. So I've been[/color]
reading[color=blue]
> all the toxicology information, trying to make this both traditional as[/color]
well[color=blue]
> as safe. Some of the old gruit herbs were potentially dangerous.
>
>[/color]