I just brewed this as my Christmas beer. I'm still doing mostly extract/kits. I used Northern Brewer's Nut Brown Ale kit, 2 1/2 bags of Meyers' Ginger Snaps. I added 1/2lb of lactose. Boiled 2oz of sweet orange peel, 4 cinnamon sticks, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp allspice, 1 oz of grated ginger for 30 min. The wort tastes pretty good, not very gingery, but I definitely taste the cookie. I'm planning on boiling some more of the spice mix with my priming sugar at bottling.
OG is 1.050
OG is 1.050