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    Lallemand Abbaye - Terrible results time and time again - talk to me

    Yes, a very simple recipe. Low OG, high ibu, not for everyone. Not my beer of course. 23 litres 1038 1002 4.7% 40 ibu (I know!) 3300g Golden Promise 100g Crisp dark crystal 20g Magnum @ 60 20g Willamette @:0 BE-134
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    Lallemand Abbaye - Terrible results time and time again - talk to me

    Thanks, and sure, we all have different tastes. I liked the 134 beer more, I like the sharpness and dryness. That's a saison, for me. Well, my kind of saison.
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    Lallemand Abbaye - Terrible results time and time again - talk to me

    Another home brewer recently sent me two beers from the same wort, one fermented with Farmhouse and one with BE-134. The 134 beer was the clear winner for me, a yeast I've never used. I preferred it's dryness and acidity, it was almost lemony. The Farmhouse beer was fine but lacking sharpness...
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    Style Drift - World Beer Cup

    Yankee Bitter. The clue's in the name. 😉
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    Top 5 Beer Styles 2025

    Well done. 😉 Both.
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    My Quest for Real Ale

    Although they have approved cask breathers obviously.
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    My Quest for Real Ale

    If bottle conditioned beer classes as real ale due to its natural carbonation, then naturally conditioned keg beer should also qualify as real ale, surely? 🤔 I just think the word 'keg' had satanic overtones for Camra, for a very long time, and possibly still has for some of them.
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    Top 5 Beer Styles 2025

    1. English Bitter 2. English Porter/Stout 3. Belgian Saison That's my top three. I class Golden ale as bitter, because I was drinking golden ales before they were called golden ales, in the form of low colour bitters. I make and enjoy many other styles including and especially APAs...
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    My Quest for Real Ale

    He just hates them. I just pointed out a lot of people like them. He is an excellent brewer though, I drink a lot of his stuff!
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    My Quest for Real Ale

    Cloudwater became big news very quickly with James Campbell as head brewer, he only stayed a couple of years and their profile has dropped somewhat since. It is primarily an American style craft brewer, of course. Marble is much more cask focussed. I am much more a Marble drinker. James Kemp...
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    My Quest for Real Ale

    When I chatted to Joe Ince the person I was with asked him why he doesn't use English hops he said "because they are terrible." I said that's a matter of opinion, because my preference is for English hops in cask ales, and things got tense! We all want cask to survive and thrive, but some of...
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    Womble

    I wouldn't move to the US tbh.
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    Womble

    Are you a British exile?
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    Womble

    Clangers > The Wombles Sorry Womble!
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    Style Drift - World Beer Cup

    SNPA being classed as an English ale is not style evolution, it's just wrong! Do the English get a say? 🤔😀
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