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I received the Gingerbread, the Gruit, and the Spiced Cherry Dubbel all safely today. I'm only missing the Crabapple Lambicky Ale now. Everyone should have received the Saffron Tripel by now, hopefully it arrived safely for everyone.

Yeah, the tripel needs some extra time to carb up, though I thought it would have been carbed by now. I think the strength of it may be retarding the process, even though I added some wine yeast. Glad you enjoyed it tho! Anyone else who tries it may want to wait a bit or at least pour it with...

I got the Dunkel Buck and the Christmas Bliss safely. The juniper berry stout arrived with a smashed bottle, but the other two bottles were intact.

I got the Rumcake/quadrupels yesterday and the Honey Ginger IPAs. The IPAs had leaked a little, but otherwise, seemed fine.

I bottled the Saffron Tripel on Monday morning, and I just finished labeling them. I measured the FG at 1.012 from an OG of 1.095, placing it about 11.8% abv according to brewersfriend.com. I added some wine yeast to help with the bottle fermentation, so hopefully that works in time for the...

Yeah, I've found that his efficiency must be higher than the 75% he states in the book (p.62) or his numbers are off. I've brewed a few recipes out of the book, and even with the errata on some of them, they still seem to be off.

That's sounds fine by me. I'm in Inglewood, CA, right next to Los Angeles (two streets in fact).

55 gallons!! You have a brew system that big? Or are you brewing multiple sessions? The tripel I brewed last Friday is all grain BTW

Had some extra time this afternoon, so I brewed the Saffron Tripel today. Should be around 9% - hope there's enough time to be ready for the holidays.

What about the 13th - Christmas Ale on pg 150? ;) I'm in for the Saffron Tripel. I've never done an exchange before, so I'm looking forward to it!

I found this while looking for bulk grains for bread, "Sprouted Millet": http://www.localharvest.org/organic-sprouted-millet-C16858 Not sure if it can be of use for GF beermaking (I'm not celiac or gluten intolerant), but thought I post here in case that it was. Cheers, Garrett

Yay, I'm in!

yay for giveaways!

AFAIK Styrian Goldings are the same as Fuggles.

Randy Mosher recommends fenugreek in his book, "Radical Brewing", as it is what is used in flavoring imitation maple syrup.