Crazy Holiday Ale idea

[bweatherly]

Aight, so a local coffee place serves a holiday coffee that is brewed with white chocolate and cinnamon. So I was thinking if that incredible taste in the coffee defines my holiday season, why can't it be served in beer? I was considering brewing a regular amber ale from extract (kit) and then adding about 3 oz cinnamon 3 min before end of boil, and about 8 oz of Torani sugar-free white chocolate syrup before pitching. Thoughts?

 

[munchen]

I don't know about the chocolate syrup. You could I suppose. Nothing wrong with adding cinnamon as it is in many spiced beer recipes, but when I want to add chocolate flavor to my beer I go with a chocolate malt. You could easily do a partial mash using the extract kit with the addition of the specialty malt you select.

 

[scrambledegg81]

Here's another recent thread about using chocolate in brewing...

Appears to be about a stout...not sure if that was the angle you're going for.