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Reporting back now that the stuff is bottled and properly carbonated: the yeast made a hell of a lot less difference than I expected. I can taste some flavor difference vs the OYL-200 that I'm using on other batches, but it's subtle, and definitely not distinctly Belgian. What's funny is that...

I made the mistake of leaving a bucket that I'd transferred wort through out on my porch for over a week without liquid in the airlock, and when I opened it up there was that awful, earthy-smelling black mold that's hard to even scrub off. Using antibacterial soap and some paper towels I was...

I'm totally fine with it not being a classic Gose - experimentation is the point here, so if I get, say, a salty, fruity Belgian, I'll consider it a win. :-) We cracked open some of the traditional Gose the day I brewed up the wort for this experiment, and it was so surprisingly good (after...

I recently brewed my first Trippel with WLP500, after getting the base recipe down with WY3787. I can really taste the difference that the yeast strain makes - the 500 really is a Chimay-esque taste - and so now I'm looking to mess around with different yeast setups to see what I can do. My...

Got my new hydrometer, and suddenly my wort from yesterday read at 1.030 - pulling just from the top without any stirring, which I suspect is actually a bit low given sugars settling at the bottom of the bucket after sitting for over a day. Today's mash read at a 1.086 after stirring, and the...

Measured this morning's mash runnings, and they came out at a 1.060, with about 1.5 gallons on ~2.75 gallons of water put into the system. I had to leave for an early lunch meeting immediately after draining the mash water, so the tun sat for another 3 hours before I got back to it. Added 3...

Looks like there are a lot of little details that I got wrong here. * I did not stir after putting the grains in for the mash. Combine this with the geometry of the tun as pointed out above, and I probably got a very uneven mash (and may have missed lots of the sugar that was converted in the...

First time doing an all-grain brew with my new mash tun (one of the 10 gallon Gatorade coolers with a spigot/filter installed at the bottom). I'm doing a Gose, with 3.5 lbs each of wheat and pilsner, with a target OG of 1.035. After getting my 2.5 gallons of mash water up to ~160, I put it into...

You guys were spot-on here - I checked this morning at 6:30, and the airlock was happily bubbling away! If it really is anything close to Chimay, I'll just know that quality is worth the wait when using this yeast. :-)

I'll give it a bit longer before I go out and get any more yeast, I suppose - I'm just surprised given previous observation of the WY3787 in largely identical wort, which I've seen have at least a small krausen on top after the ~18 hours it had been between pitching and observation of the WL500...

Been successfully brewing a Belgian Trippel recipe for a while now with Wyeast 3787 Trappist High Gravity, and after a recent experiment with WLP545 Belgian Strong produced a completely distinct beer from the same wort recipe, I've decided to go out and try as many Belgian ale yeasts as I can...