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• Posted in thread: GBBF I'm coming! on 05-09-2013 at 09:40 PM
  Wow what a trip! Wish I could make it.I'm sure of the beer quality, I only hope there will not
  be a huge crowd. Infact, I think I will go the first two days, the 13th and the 14th. The 15th
  is holiday...

• Posted in thread: GBBF I'm coming! on 05-07-2013 at 10:30 PM
  I just purchased the flight to London for the Great British Beer Festival.- Anyone is coming?-
  Suggestions (not the first time in London but first time to the GBBF)?Cheers from Italy!
  :mug:Piteko

• Posted in thread: New Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast? on 03-18-2013 at 11:00 AM
  Rice hulls are there only to help your sparge not get stuck since wheat has no husk to help
  form a filter bed. They don't contribute sugars. If you BIAB, you should be fine without.I
  know, but I'm not...

• Posted in thread: New Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast? on 03-17-2013 at 11:01 PM
  The main thing I still have to understand is if I have/want to use spices and keep the
  fermentation temp down or if it's better not to use the spices and pump the yeast with a high
  fermentation temp.I...

• Posted in thread: New Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast? on 03-17-2013 at 12:06 AM
  you might want to look into yeast washing. it is possible to reuse yeast.I know the procedure
  and I tend to follow the directions heard on brewstrong: pitching the yeast as fresh as
  possible, so I bot...

• Posted in thread: New Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast? on 03-16-2013 at 09:44 PM
  check out this sub-forum for many recipe ideas: years that I come around here and never saw
  the recipes sub-forum! Great!!feel free to ask questions if you don't understand something in a
  recipe.Som...

• Posted in thread: New Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast? on 03-16-2013 at 09:32 PM
  My personal favorite is the "Catalyst saison" it was originally done by that major vices
  brewer, and has been my favorite so far.Perfect! Thanks!I saw the Catalyst recipe. It's very
  interesting since ...

• Posted in thread: New Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast? on 03-14-2013 at 04:23 PM
  Hello everybody!I already have this yeast, received it as a present, and I wanted to use it.
  The first thought was to do a witbier. I was aiming to something like Blanche de Namur, very
  light, coriand...

• Posted in thread: Yeast from secondary better than yeast from primary? on 03-05-2013 at 04:16 PM
  I wonder if nobody has noticed changes in flavor over generations of brews, and so nobody has
  done any testing on this idea.I couldn't answer to the question you made correlated to the
  primary vs seco...

• Posted in thread: Yeast from secondary better than yeast from primary? on 03-04-2013 at 02:48 PM
  I understand the idea that if you wash the yeast from secondary, you are getting the less
  flocculant yeast. Are there other attributes that might vary depending on which step in the
  process you take t...