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That makes a lot of sense. Good job I don't mind the taste but I think I'll have to invest in a decent filter for future Belgian endevours. I brew outside so I'll have to try to find one that connects to an outside tap or hoselock fitting.

Thanks all for the sound advice as always.

I clean with VWP, rinse with cleab water and sanitize with starsan. No filtering Used Mangrove Jacks Belgian Tripel yeast. I've never had this taste before and my technique is always the same. The only thing I can think is the groundwater was a bit warmer than usual and I pitched a couple of degree...

I clean with VWP, rinse with cleab water and sanitize with starsan. No filtering Used Mangrove Jacks Belgian Tripel yeast. I've never had this taste before and my technique is always the same. The only thing I can think is the groundwater was a bit warmer than usual and I pitched a couple of degrees...

I have an export stout in the fermenter at the moment and the Mrs picked up a 250g bag of cacao nibs for 60p (reduced from £6) in Morrison's. I've read a few posts on here about using them in a beer and the consensus seems to be the more, the merrier so I'm planning on lobbing the whole bag into sec...

I've recently made a Belgian Tripel and it has a distinct smell and taste of germolene. It hits you quite strongly at first and then dissipates after a few sips. The strange thing is, I really like it. I've had a fair few tripels and only a couple have had a hint of this taste. Is this an "off" flav...

Cheaper than I thought it would be

Never made one but I've tasted a few and they're quite nice. Before they were a 'thing', the Wild Beer Co (UK) did a beer called Brett Brett IPA that was dry as sticks and bloody lovely too. I've watched a few YouTube vids on them but all the extra enzymes and whatnot seem like a lot more room for e...

I racked a gallon of Belgian Dark Strong Ale onto some of these...

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Wish I'd done the whole 5 gallon batch, twas lovely.

I've washed both types and never noticed a difference in quality. I've also done a modest gravity ale and then chucked a high gravity wort straight onto the slurry without washing and it took off like a rocket with no noticeable dip in quality (both were quite low hopped FWIW).

I used 2 gervin hi alcohol yeast and its still going so if it stops can i restart it and how That yeast should go up to 21% ABV given plenty of nutrients. I doubt anything other yeast would do any better. Have you dosed the must with any nutrient? How much? All at once or in stages? If you lobbed t...

How high does your hydrometer go? If you added no other sugar in the way of fruit, you're looking at something in the 18/19% ABV range if it makes it down to single digits. You could try dosing it with some extra nutrients and some Lalvin EC-1118, which is tolerant up to about 18%. Either that or us...

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I use Tapatalk on my mobile which has an option on every message to add pictures (I don't have a computer). Not sure what the process is for desktops/laptops etc.

Or try making it fizzy, it'll lift the elderflower flavour and potentially hide the lack of grape flavour.

I think it depends on if you're using anything other than elderflower as a flavour, since there's not much to hide behind for the lack of vinosity. I've done with sultanas/raisins vs grape concentrate myself a few times over the years depending on what's available, the amount of other flavours in th...

Update: it's fermenting away nicely, possibly going to blow the lid off my bucket. All the worrying for nothing so far. I'll update on the taste in a month or so.