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Loved the 565. did a saison with it and finished at 1.005. I let it ferment really hot (90+) and it has a lot of sweet fruitiness to it. Cant wait to let this saison age.

bumping with a little review of nikkormat's saison.... Wow...lot of crazy flavors going on in this thing. starts off really citrus, almost an orangy flavor thats not overpowering. The citrusy orange flavor seems to blend with an a very faint bubblegum sweetness. very light body, finishes very...

Yup, this September. Although it is going to be completely different than the Opeth you are used to. So different in fact that they had to fire a member because "he didnt feel comfortable playing that type of music". hmm

Massive opeth fan here. You should definitely go see them I got my VIP tickets for Oct 25th in Denver. Meet and greet with the band + a bunch of signed crap = :rockin:

Hi, my name is Chip. I'm a 25 y/o Grad student at Colorado State University. Moving to CO two years ago really turned me onto beers, and particularly homebrewing. I'm excited to learn and grow in my newfound hobby here at HBT, and I look forward to interacting with you all!

haha, no actually it was kind of a big strainer. there's plenty of yeast in this beer let me tell you. It did the job of filtering the snot crap out but left plenty of yeast in the beer

I just brewed this and wow, it came out freaking awesome. A wonderful recipe for sure. We have a brewery in town that specializes in saisons (see Funkwerks) and all of my friends agree that this beer might even top their house saison.

Yeah, I had this happen a few weeks ago with a hefeweizen I brewed. There was a clear ring around the carboy where you could see it. I just ran the beer through a strainer when I transferred to a secondary, and it got basically all of the snot stuff out. Soaked the primary in hot water +...