[Sca-cooks] Patron Saints of Cooks, Food and Beverage Workers

[John Kemker]

grizly wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>   
>> DEC 6
>> St. Nicholas of Bari's Feast Day (350) Patron Saint of (among many
>> others) Bakers, Brewers, & Fishermen
>>   
>>     
> Samichlaus!
>
> You can celebrate St. Nick with a Samichlaus beer, brewed and bottled on
> the Saint's day (Dec. 6) and first sold one year later on the following
> Samichlaus day.  14.5% abv, dark, heavy, with hints of chocolate,
> currants, nutmeg and other wonderful flavors, even though it's nothing
> but malt (LOTS of malt!), water, hops and yeast let work for a year.
>
> --Cian  < < < < 
>
>
> YUou got a recipe for that one??
>
> niccolo difrancesco
>   
Don't I wish!

I tried to cultivate some Samichlaus yeast from one of the bottles, but
it wouldn't take hold.  Even sent a full bottle to a friend that has
been able to harvest lots of different bottle-conditioned yeasts. 
Unfortunately, the Samichlaus strain eludes us.  Therefore, my usual
recipe involves heading to a well-stocked package store (that's Georgia
for "liquor store") with green stuff in hand.

If I can ever get a reliable source for the yeast, I might just try my
hand at working a recipe up!

--Cian