Alvinne's Fellowship of Exceptional Ales n°8. Scandinavian sour Steinbeer brewed for and with fellows. 1 Yule was the last day in the Shire Calendar, marking the end of the year. On a modern calendar, it would correspond to December 21. 1 Yule was always a Highday (Friday). So we brewed the last beer of the Fellowship on Friday December 21, 2018. It was an experimental brew mashing into an oak barrel, using a Christmas tree during lautering, making a bonfire to heat the stones to bring the wort to boil, cooled during the longest night and inoculated with Lithuanian Simonaitis farmhouse yeast, fermented in an oak barrel.