Little Mountain Brew session

We have a group of folks at work who like to get together a couple of times a year and brew at The Brew Kettle.  This place is great - good food, great beers on tap, and a large menu of beers to choose to brew.  They have really nice brew set up with 8 kettles (I think) and multiple bottling stations.  Trouble is, this place is far from home for me and is also busy as hell.  The wait to brew even a couple of kettles is up to 6 months.  Well, we missed scheduling at our last session so a few of us were looking for an alternative.   Little Mountain Brewing opened up near me about a year ago.  I had stopped in to check it out and met Bob who runs the place.  Nice guy and he has a nice operation.  It is much smaller than the Brew Kettle with no real food options, but he has plenty of availability and looks like the perfect set up for the 4 of us.  

We scheduled a session and completed our brewing last week.  Bob was on hand as well as his bartender (sorry, can't remember his name - too many beers!) to help us out.  We opted to brew a Scotch ale and a Christmas ale.  The session went well aside from a rookie mistake on the Christmas ale - yours truly and partner allowed a boil over.  Both beers have a stiff OG of over .070, so these should warm us up nicely on the cold days ahead.  I have never brewed a spiced Christmas ale before, the ingredient list was the longest I have encountered by far.  From memory, we had at least 3 different grains as well as Oatmeal, molasses, 20 lbs of malt extract, honey, cinnamon, cranberries, orange peel, nutmeg, cardamon.  I am missing a few here, but you get the picture.  

After the session which took about 31/2 hours, a couple of us stopped next door for some wings.  The establishment was a little rough, but the wings were fantastic and cheap.  I will definitely stop in there again.   

Will post again on the results - we hope to bottle on the 22nd so stay tuned.