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by Barley Water
Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:54 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Belgian Blonde (Zot like)
Replies: 11
Views: 2080

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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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 ...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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. ...
by Barley Water
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...
by Barley Water
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).
by Barley Water
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...