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i wouldnt use WLP400 for this beer, if brainless on peaches is what youre going for id use WLP550, thats the yeast Epic uses for all the brainless beers

WLP400 is only used for their witbier, the yeast used for brainless (and peaches, cherries, and smoked and oaked) is WLP550, fermented at 72/73, with a rise to 75 at 60% attenuation. as for the hops they use premiant @60min, tettnang @30min, and saaz @5min, but for the fruit version it...

if youre trying to clone epic's beer, id cut the sugar down to 1 lb, add .5 lbs each of wheat malt and flaked oats. then add enough Marris Otter to bring the starting gravity up to 20P. i believe epic moves the beer to french oak chardonnay barrels after fermentation, then adds the peaches...

a little late i know but for what its worth i recently made a sticke alt which i pitched at 62, then after the first 24 hours let it free rise slowly until it was holding at 68 after 4 or 5 days. mashed at 155 and it attenuated 72%, and tastes really clean

i had 4 oz of this hop and wanted to see what it was like, so i mashed 95% 2 row 5% crystal 60 and then did an oz at 60 min, .5 oz at 20 and 10, 1 oz at 0 min and 1 oz dry hop. pretty interesting hop, tasted kind of lemony, and a little grapefuity. some people who have tried this beer tasted...

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