I recently had a pint of this delicious beer the other day, my question is does anybody know where I can find a clone recipe of this beer? I looked on beersmith and could only find the Old Chub.
I believe it is a pretty limited release (I think only NC) but is damn tasty. Saw it on tap at a few different Charlotte places in the past week.
I haven't heard of it either. I've had cask Old Chub with different ingredients, but nothing different in the brewing process. Is it something like that, or a whole new recipie?
I'm not sure if it's a whole new recipe I think just different ingredients were added. Oddly enough it was darker than regular chub and almost has a black IPA flavor with a hint of pine.
"Christmas Chub, created by head brewer Tuttle, was made with orange zest and spruce tips gathered from trees on the Oskar Blues farm in Longmont, Colo. Tuttle said his staff poured 100 pounds of spruce needles into the whirlpool following the boil – for a 100-barrel batch! The result is a brew brimming with pine and citrus notes, and many Oskar Blues employees who tasted the beer at the company’s internal holiday party on Wednesday were raving about the seasonal brew." http://hoppyhour.blogs.blueridgenow.com/10712/more-hoppenings-at-sierra-oskar-blues/
Well if you're doing 5 gal batches: 100lb spruce needles to 100 barrels so 1lb:1bl ratio 1 barrel = 31.5 gallons 31.5gal / 5 (size of batch) = 6.3 6.3 pounds of spruce needle in your "whirlpool" Then the issue would be balancing the orange zest. Or you could just buy spruce essence and orange peel, and probably double both of them up, and hit something similar. But that is much more back of the envelope.
