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Subscribed! Please let us know how this turns out. I was also inspired to make a kumquat saison for a fruit beer competition after reading that article, but couldn't source the kumquats in time. What variety of kumquat did you use?

This is what I do as well, just toss them in when I remove the bag. I'm skeptical as to how well FWH works for BIAB, however. With a traditional three-vessel setup, you're looking at quite a bit of time the FWH are in the kettle before you start the boil, because of the time it takes to...

Went to lunch with some people today at Slater's 50/50. It's a fancy hamburger place with 50+ taps, lots of good craft/import beers. Conversation when ordering went like this: My friend, to the waiter: Can you recommend a good Belgian beer? Waiter: Duvel is a good one. Me (thinking): Good...

I think Mr. Malty suggested right about 2L for the starter, with intermittent shaking. I don't have the recipe in front of me to check exactly what the OG was to run the numbers again. I also chilled the starter and wort down to 44F separately before pitching. Fermentation seemed to take off...

I have a batch of Jamil's Bohemian Pilsner lagering right now, and ran into the same slow fermentation issues with WLP800. I pitched at 44 and let it go up to 50 over a couple days. After 18 days, it was only at 1.030 (from 1.054 or so). Didn't taste any diacetyl, but I let it go up to 60 just...

Pretty sure it's an ale yeast. A quick google search turned up this, which looks like what I got: http://www.brewgadgets.com/p-556-muntons-yeast.aspx?gclid=CMronLirgrUCFWlxQgodvTUAnQ While I'd like to use all of the other ingredients in this beer, since I've got them already, the yeast is the...

My wife got me an ingredients kit for Christmas. It claims to be a Pilsner kit, but the ingredients don't seem quite right for the style. It came with: 3.3 lbs Muntons Light LME 2 lbs Muntons Light DME 1oz First Gold hops (pellet, 7.3% AA) 1oz First Gold hops (leaf, 7% AA) ...along with...