Recent content by GordonT

That yeast has quite a different flavour profile. If you want to experience the difference as accurately as possible, spend a little extra and ferment half of your beer with each yeast and then do some side by side tastings.

To me the main tastes in this beer are floral and malt. I do consider this beer sweetish too, but balanced by the noble hops early addition. Wonderful all around. If you are detecting chalky dryness I would assume the yeast is doing that as this beer is not all that dry, not nearly as dry as...

I can't say I prefer one over the other at this point and truth be told I don't taste a lot of difference between them. If you want a detailed analysis of the differences look on Wyeasts' web site. I will probably continue to use Ardennes because I always use my yeasts more than once and...

Well.. that is a very nice post and I'm so glad he liked the beer as much as he did. The one fault he found was in the nose and there I will disagree with him, its just a matter of taste but I find the nose very appealing. It comes from the marriage of a rather odd hop with the malt and oak and...

You are most welcome, glad to be able to pass on such an enjoyable recipe

Depends what you like of course. I like a bigger body in my beer, more mouth feel than the usually dry Belgians have. If you feel this will be too big a beer, or if your equipment is different enough to yield substantially different results then simply cut down on the amount of malt going in.

The oats are not malted. In the original recipe they use unmalted versions of the base malt, the wheat malt and the oats. Too much trouble for us amateurs though.

The first post is the basic recipe and you won't go wrong with that. In other posts I mention various tweaks but they are not overly important. Read through and mark my comments and you'll have the full story. Cheers

It is not an exact replica. The original has a very flowery nose and initial flavour that I can't get, but, this is very close and a good template to begin with.

Depends if you want to go with the original recipe, which most people that have tried gave good ratings to. Or for the highjacked thread version, which apparently didn't turn out all that well. I didn't say anything about highjacking as it was happening because I have been distracted by other...

I brewed this quite some time ago, maybe a year or so if memory serves. We had the last pint this weekend and I have to say that this gets better with age although die hards may prefer the younger more robust version. With age the great beer under the peat began to peek out more. Clean malt, a...

You're welcome! Glad to hear it turned out well for you. Unless your reading was way off something odd did happen as I usually have an OG closer to 1075

Look back through the various posts on this, page 5 to be exact, and you will see a few posts about the syrup added. Good luck. You spice additions look spot on.

Great pic Ido. So glad you're enjoying it. I have been unable to brew for the past couple of months and this is top of the list for me again also. Have one for me... :cross:

You're welcome sir. Glad I could help out. Definitely one of my favourites and pretty darned close to the original.