adding stuff to make a christmas beer

[gorymorph]

if i get a standard bitter kit and want to turn it into an christmas beer by adding things such as cinnamon and ginger maybe mulled wine spices etc. Anyone know what sort of quontities to add to a five gallon brew

[flytact]

An easy thing to do is take a pound of honey, some diced/grated orange peel (no white pith), about a thumb size piece sliced up and tablespoons of whatever spices you'd like to throw in. Put in for the last 15 minutes of boil.
You can also simmer this all on the stove and add to the primary.

Be careful, no one likes to feel like they're drinking a candle.

[chopperswookie]

i added 250g of brewing sugar to my woodfordes nog to make it moe potent than what i would usually do. isn't that what christmas is about - getting so drunk you ignore the mundane boredom of family. as long as i am sober for doctor who on xmas day i don't care!

[Sheepy]

This site has some good advice on spicing up beer.
http://www.byo.com/feature/56.html
Im planning on a version of the Winter Solstice Red Ale which sounds like it would be good for christmas

[Doug]

Then if I boil for 20 mins the following ingredients Cinnamon,Orange,Cumin and just pitch the tea minus the bits into my fermenter along with my kit it may do something to the flavour?