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• Posted in thread: Pellicle Photo Collection on 04-30-2013 at 02:58 PM
  Looks fine to me. My Consecration clone had a very similar colors/ textured pellicle, that was
  more of a "skin" on the top. The Consecration Clone turned out great. No worries mate, RDWDAHB.

• Posted in thread: 50 Gallon Cantillon Turbid Mash ... and pizza, mostly photos. on 04-20-2013 at 07:55 PM
  Probably because that is THE Traditional way to do Lambic. Lambic is coolshipped, and then
  racked to barrels. It is fermented and aged in the same vessel with no racking.

• Posted in thread: Coolship build on 04-15-2013 at 01:42 PM
  Ou of curiosity, how long ago was that, and what was your process (general idea on grain bill,
  mash, OG). Did you just leave the wort in a open bucket? How did you innoculate pre-coolship? I
  had some ...

• Posted in thread: Consecration kit from MoreBeer on 04-09-2013 at 12:36 AM
  This is my Consecration clone. I bottled it one month ago and added a half a vial of WL Brett C
  at bottling. For the first 2 weeks after bottling it had NO carbonation and is now sitting at
  light-ish ...

• Posted in thread: First Attempt at Flander's red ale. quesitons... on 03-11-2013 at 05:23 PM
  I would personally pitch some dregs from a couple commercial sours into each of them. The
  roeselare doesn't tend to get things sour enough on its own. What you are describing however
  sounds pretty fam...

• Posted in thread: Pellicle Photo Collection on 02-16-2013 at 03:24 AM
  Wow, that looks awesome!YES! yes it does! :rockin:

• Posted in thread: Pellicle Photo Collection on 02-06-2013 at 05:20 PM
  i've wondered about the headspace issue in the past too, but as long as you're not checking it
  all the time and the fermentation is somewhat active, it doesn't seem like you could have too
  much of a p...

• Posted in thread: Pellicle Photo Collection on 02-06-2013 at 01:28 AM
  I was planning on leaving it on the fruit for 4 months or so. I didn't flush with CO2 (don't
  have CO2 or a kegging set up). I also have an even 3 gallons of lambic plus fruit in each
  carboy, which is ...

• Posted in thread: Pellicle Photo Collection on 02-05-2013 at 05:28 PM
  Yeah, the pictures don't really do it justice. It is a nice, white bretty film. A couple of
  smallish brett-bubbles toward the center of each.

• Posted in thread: ECY on love2brew.com right now! on 02-04-2013 at 02:49 PM
  They also had bugfarm VI up briefly. I Scored a vial :D