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Last year I tasted and smelled hazelnut in the aroma. It didn't seem as strong to me in the bottle I had this year, but I still get a hint of it. Hazelnut is not unheard of in pumpkin pie or beer. I don't know that ST uses it, but maybe a bit of hazelnut extract at bottling would help with...

I’ll definitely be following this thread. I’m interested to see what you come up with and how it turns out. I have an idea of how I would go about this clone, and I may give it a go when my next funky fermenter gets freed up. I think one cool aspect of home brewing this beer will...

The dregs from a single bottle of Orval has been enough in my experience, but I generally do small 3.25 gallon batches. The brett does take time to do its work. When I harvested from the NG golden i grew it up just to make sure that there was indeed viable yeast in the bottle. i think growing...

NG's Golden Ale is a fantastic beer. It is very Orval-like. There are lots of Orval clone recipe's out there that I think would be close. You might need to adjust the color malts slightly to get the more golden vs light orange color. I would use a semi-neutral Belgian yeast for the primary...

A friend of mine gave me a couple of bags of Willamette hops that his neighbor had grown and frozen. They were about six months old. One bag contained hops that were dried and then frozen, the other bag contained hops that were frozen and not dried. I decided to make a small hop tea of each...

i guess i was thinking that if you really wanted to nail down the character that the various pils malts are contributing , then brewing a beer without a dominating hop or yeast character might be helpful. that said, i think the pils malt origin still does make a significant difference in many...

The yeast could complicate differentiation slightly in the BPA depending on which one you use. I think wlp515 would be a great BPA yeast for comparing pils. Malt nuances are pretty apparent in a Helles, though that was not a style you listed. The difference between German malt and domestic is...

I would highly recommend using the current Wyeast private collection yeast 3655-PC Belgian Schelde Ale. It is cleaner than most belgian yeasts and will work very well in a fat tire clone. I think it is the De Konnink strain, which some claim is the inspiration for fat tire. I have used this...