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Nice stash! let us know how that scottish heavy turns out. The Saison Brasserie is a great mix of strains.

My OG was 1.083, FG 1.011. It was a really tasty beer hints of chocolate reminded me of rogue chocolate stout.

Worst cause scenario if Joe doesn't get more soon I can get you guys some from my secondary. I keep this as a house strain now

Yeah Al Buck supplies the Ballantine strain he calls "Old Newark Ale". He streaked it from a yeast bank so its deff. the original Ballantine ale strain. You can call princeton homebrew and Joe will ship it. I can tell you its nothing like 1056, its higher flocculating and forms a hard cake on...

use some mild ale malt, caramunich (or cara 45) and carawheat,mash at 154. I use THE original Ballantine strain and get finishing gravities in my ipas 1.010-1.012, lots of chew to handle the hops

great divide titan ipa is mighty tasty

simcoe centennial and amarillo combination is a force to be reckoned with

Beer scene magazine is going to have an article on THE original Ballantine strain this month. A gentlemen named Al Buck of East Coast Yeast has revived the Ballantine Ale and Lager Strains from streaks from the original yeast banked cultured from the Newark NJ brewery. He is calling it "Old...

probably contaminated your brewery with brett. That's why I don't brew lambics in my basement

They should be good. Mine looked like that and smelled a little grassy. I air dried them for a week and they were good. They still smelled slightly grassy when dry but I kind of crushed/rubbed them a little before using them and the cascade smell was real nice. I think you will be fine

if you weight out ounces of dry whole hops from pounds off hopsdirect there has got to be at least 75 dry hops in one ounce.

The soil around my hops is quality stuff but the plants seemed to be lacking some minerals. 4 days ago I top dressed with sea kelp and dried blood, and I try to add urine when the neighbors arent outside. The plants restored to a bright green so quickly and are flowering like crazy. I...

put them in a muslin bag and squeeze at the end of boil, you get all the liquid back

Always proof your yeast for brew, bread, whatever.

ah but if you squeeze the bag at the end maybe your getting more utilization with a hop bag. I never changed my amounts, I do recommend squeezing the bag with aid of a mesh strainer. You also save a good half a beer from being absorbed by the hops if using whole leaf.