I need to hide this thread from SWMBO. She's been agitating for new counters in the kitchen for years. I can see her stooping to dropping $50 on StarSan and having an "accident"
I finally bottled this yesterday even though it was ready to go last weekend. Slow but steady, it hit its final gravity of 1.020. There's no sign of infection but sampling the dregs from the bottling bucket there is a strong hint of sour to the flavor to go along with the stone fruit and malt...
Just finished reading the Brew Like a Monk book and the most surprising thing to me was how vanilla the grain bills are for the various trappist breweries. Most are some combination of pilsner malt, one or two dark crystal/caramel, and Belgian candi sugar. All of the complexity comes from the...
Updating: Pitched this on the 27th of October to a 1.085 Belgian Dark wort. I've gone to kegging earlier this year but want to bottle condition this beer to hand out for the holidays. I also wanted to avoid tying up one of my few cornies for six months or more. Normally I would have bottled...
Just added this to what is basically a Rochefort 8 clone. Not sure I'm going to be able to keep it as warm as it might like or present it with much of a challenge attenuation-wise. My OG was a mere 1.085 and this thing reads like it is a horse. Picked it up because the LHBS didn't have the...