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- Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:54 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Belgian Blonde (Zot like)
- Replies: 11
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Re: Belgian Blonde (Zot like)
I have a lot of experience with WLP500 and if you are not careful with that stuff you will get excessive fruity/banana and sometime bubblegum flavors (which is of course a subjective judgement on my part). I agree with the poster that said WLP530 is nice; I have had better results with that strain b...
- Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:03 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Strong American Porter
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9091
Re: Strong American Porter
Humm...I would be interested to hear how this tastes. I have personally never seen a Porter formulation that didn't include chocolate malt but hey, what the hell do I know? I have a keg of Brown Porter carbing up in my keezer right now which I did cold steeping the chocolate malt; I am curious as to...
- Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:11 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Brewing sugar in the boil
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3773
Re: Brewing sugar in the boil
Back in the 70's and early 80's homebrewing involved buying a can of extract and dumping in a ton of sugar to jack up the gravity (at least in the states and yeah, that's about the time I started playing this game). The resulting brew tasted awful but it got the job done and back in those heady time...
- Tue Jan 05, 2016 8:23 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: odds and ends tripel
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1425
Re: odds and ends tripel
Oh yeah, I pretty much look at honey like liquid sugar although I guess it is not quite as fermentable as straight sugar. Generally speaking, I don't like to add highly processed sugars to beer mostly because I see the addition of relatively unrefined sugar as a way to introduce unique flavors. Of c...
- Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:05 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: odds and ends tripel
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1425
Re: odds and ends tripel
Yeah, I would say that looks like an Imperial Wit to me although of course there is nothing wrong with that. I can't think of any of the bigger Belgian brews that doesn't have a fair amount of sugar in the grist for exactly the reason the previous poster mentioned. What you could do is drop a pound ...
- Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:17 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Single hop Amarillo amber
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1417
Re: Single hop Amarillo amber
The only reason I wouldn't use Amarillo for bittering is because it is relatively popular and so more expensive and sometimes harder to find. I personally like Warrior to bitter (or Magnum) because you get a nice clean bitter flavor. The Amarillo I save for late/dry hopping. By the way, I like the g...
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:59 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Hoppy Hefeweizen
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2528
Re: Hoppy Hefeweizen
I will be very interested to hear what you think of that beer. I'm sure many on this site have read my rants concerning Chinook hops so I won't bore you with a repeat but err...I wouldn't think that would work out all that well. More appropriate might be an American Wheat ale, no bananna or clove bu...
- Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:46 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Providing beer for party - recipe suggestions welcome
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1481
Re: Providing beer for party - recipe suggestions welcome
Perhaps things are different over on your side of the pond but over here if I am taking beer to an event where many of the attendees are not beer geeks I try to keep it light and not too bitter (in other words less aggressive tasting). The problem I have however is that most of the stuff I make is e...
- Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:32 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Belgian style APA
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1479
Re: Belgian style APA
Humm....well first of all, I would say a 6%+ beer with 60 IBU's and a bunch of late hops is more like a standard American IPA to me (that's pretty much were Dogfishhead 60 is for instance). Now I'm gonna get into personal preference here so you might want to take the rest of this with a grain of sal...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:14 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Lagering Quetion.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1137
Re: Lagering Quetion.
Well it's a standard O.G. beer (by American standards anyway) so I would think you could lager about 4 weeks and that should get the job done. You will find that the beer will really clear out generally if you can get it close to freezing and just let it sit. You will find that the longer it sits, t...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:31 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Converting 90 min recipes to 60 min recipes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1800
Re: Converting 90 min recipes to 60 min recipes
I would think that many times it really doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference whether you boil 60 or 90 minutes unless the beer you are trying to make is really malty in which case I would think longer is better (and especially if you have a direct fired kettle). I find myself trying to maximiz...
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:03 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: belgian blonde
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1384
Re: belgian blonde
Let the yeast get started at the lower temperature then start letting it rise near the end of the fermentation. If you do that a couple of good things will happen; first, you will get rid of any diacetyl lurking around trying to screw up your beer and two, it will allow the beer to fully attenuate. ...
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:38 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: California Creamin'
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1915
Re: California Creamin'
Have you ever messed with vanilla beans before? Let's put it this way, you can easily, and I mean really easily, overpower a beer with that stuff. I have made a Bourbon Vanilla Porter the last couple of years and I want to say we used 1 1/2 whole beans and really I thought it was too much (and we ar...
- Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:47 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: leffe brun
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13680
Re: leffe brun
Check out the local Indian grocery stores, that's where I get mine from here in Texas. While you are at it, they also have primo choriander for making wits and spicing other Belgian brews (you can throw a little in a Triple or I guess whatever you want).
- Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:55 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: leffe brun
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13680
Re: leffe brun
Well ok; it's not like this is the first time I have been wrong. If I get around to it, I may try doing a "leffe like" clone of the blond stuff. I rather like that beer also but it's been several years since I've made that particular style. I anticipate that a beer like that will get judged in the n...