Aschecte

Recipes 

excellent I'm going for like a ducess de bourgogne type flanders so I guess I should leave it for awhile.

__________________
Funky Onion Brewing est.2010
Primary-Turbid mashed Lambic
Primary-Flanders Red
Primary-Aaron's Ordinary Bitter

rcsoccer

Recipes 

I guess I answered my own question when I emailed Wyeast about the species of Brett in Roselare blend, and this turned into a discussion on what to do with the beers that we all have sitting in this blend.

So, it seems like I need to ask another question along those lines. I was wondering if anyone has transferred about 1/2 of their Roselare batch into a small carboy to age on whatever (fruit, oak, bourbon/whiskey, etc..) and then topped up the original Roselare batch with some fresh wort. I was looking at doing something along those lines because I can't seem to find a used wine/whiskey/rum/bourbon barrel to use as a solera. Just wondering if anyone has done it and what results you had.

Cheers!

__________________
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
- Dave Barry

Almighty

Recipes 

I re-pitch on to the old yeast cake and add a bit of Sacc yeast since that has died off in the year between batches.

The solera method will work, but I think you would get better results from keeping batches separate and then blending different aged batches.
For example, every 6 months you could just rack the beer off the yeast into another keg/carboy and then add more wort + Sacc yeast. Within a 2 yrs you would have 4 batches that would give you some great diversity to blend with. Obviously, the downside is you need more carboys and space.

anicola

Recipes 

I have a 6.5 gal better bottle Roeselare 'solera' going. Started 10 months ago with Jamil flanders red and 1 pack of Wyeast Roeselare. After 3 months I added 2 lbs of tart Boysen Berries. At 6 months i racked n bottled 2 gal and topped off with 2 gal of fresh flanders red wort. At 7 months i added another 1.5 lb boysen berries and a couple of handfuls of oak cubes cut from a Jack Daniels barrel stave i brought back from Sturgis. Last month (9th). I racked and kegged 3 gals and added 1 gal of a Shakespeare Stout that had been in the fridge for several months and .5 lb cane sugar.
So far it has produced excellent tart complex brews. When it stops doing so, i'll dump it and start fresh.

gizmodog51

Recipes 

williams brewing supplies uses this yeast with their extract kit and has a wine yeast to pitch in the secondary.

the more it ages the more pronounced the sour effect. i chose not to pitch the wine yeast and drafted it early.

drafted after a month and it was somewhat dry with a pleasurable tartness.

G.D.51

Shift

Recipes 

Just cracked open my first bottle brewed with the roselare, brewed in august 2011 and bottled a week ago. The taste is towards the tart cherry region rather than the dirty horse. When I drew a sample during spring 2012 it smelled good but the flavor was really lacking. 2 months ago the situation was the same, but a month after that some magic had happpened and suddenly it was the best beer I've brewed.

__________________
Bottles: Flanders Red 2011, ESB
In primary(s): Dirty Belgian dark strong, Flanders Red 2012, Marris Otter Barleywine, Kitchen-cleaning-Porter
Long term carboy:

rcsoccer

Recipes 

That's great! I think the bugs have different time frames for when they want to work. I've read that it goes in cycles, where one type will produce some kind of flavor/aroma and then another takes over to produce some more complexity. I'm looking forward to tasting my Roselare beer next year sometime.

__________________
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
- Dave Barry

dinnerstick

Recipes 

the good people of roeselare have asked me to be a pedant and correct the spelling of their town name wherever i find it wrongly spelled. it's a busy job on this forum for some reason!! (oe is pronounced 'ooh' btw)

pedantry aside i am working on my first ever beer with roeselare blend, and have really enjoyed sneaking tastes as the flavors change and develop

spenghali

Recipes 

Probably will have to brew a fresh batch to blend with if you are going for something like the duchess. It is much sweeter than most flanders red and most of our home brewed sours will be drying out pretty dam good.