Recent content by Pneill316

Expensive, I ordered 1 girardins & 2 oud beersel. It was either 100 euros or 120 euros for the shipping alone.

http://belgiuminabox.com/shop/428-bag-in-box-young-lambic

I may have some answers for you as I'm a home gueuze blender myself. I'm only on batch 2 and still am trying to figure it out. I've only been using my homebrews as the jonge. I order from Belgium, lambic-in-a-box, it's basically the same thing as wine-in-a-box. They are flat and filled...

I see your point about about balancing and what not. Again this was only my 3rd batch and my fourth got higher because I didn't adjust for the higher AA%. Plus my wife was adimant about brewing this one again because she thought it was the best beer she ever tasted. I figure the only way I'll...

I did the pliny the bastard clone. I up the hops since I can only buy hops by the ounce, so I just added the extra. I also replaced the simcoe with citra due to local availability.

So am I just wasting hops or does the higher IBU's add flavor just not bitter.

I started brewing in February and I'm currently brewing my 4th batch. My 3rd batch was a 350 IBU +/- IPA (8.5% abv) and I must say is awesome. I've had my fair share of top commercial IPA's and I think my brew is better, so does my wife. I know that I'm probably being partial, but I really...