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Just came from work to this:

I hope this thread continues, Don de Dieu is my favorite beer they make:rockin: I made a clone attempt last winter with the Unibroue yeast and had a beer that was good, but not close to it.

Brewed another quad yesterday with Chimay yeast. OG 1.16(still need to add my dark candi syrup:o), so we'll see how it turns out. Sitting at 66F and about to blow the lid off the bucket!

I brew a LOT of quads, they are my favorite beer to drink. The only times that I have had my primary fermentation finish in less than a week(normally closer to 2 weeks @ 70) was when I had them up into the 80's ambient. I still let them sit another week before cold crashing for 4 days and...

I always use one clear plastic Coke bottle when bottling so that I can easily check to see if the beer is carbing up. My test bottle is pretty rock solid today, so everything seems to be going well. I'll wait until mid August to take a taste:)

I haven't bought/built a stir plate because I haven't needed one. I brew mostly high gravity beers that need big starters, and haven't had a problem with my method. I use a growler, or a plastic soda bottle. I pour in the starter wort, pitch the yearst, put the lid on and shake for a solid...

I added 3 packs of US-05 to a 1.088 beer and went to 1.010 in about 4 days....I'd use 1 1/2.

So my darling wife opened the window that night and didn't tell me. I went in there today and it was 78F! I took a sample(no more pumpkin matter floating) and it's down to 1.012, with a big banana nose. I tasted the sample and it's got a hop bitterness, pumpkin spice, and a big Belgian banana...

In the fridge cold crashing now. Since the wood was only on the wood chips a little over a week I'm thinking of adding a cup of the rum(Myer's dark) to the bottling bucket.

Me too.

I just added 2lbs of D-180, the OG should be around 1.101 now. It'll be kind of like a "RUMpkin quad". I noticed a ton of pumpkin matter in the bucket even though I strained the wort, I can't imagine NOT straining this! I'm absolutely going to cold crash for a few days before racking to...

Checked again today, still at 1.010(should be 10.24%, wow!!) so I added the wood chips. I'll be bottling this in about a week.

Just brewed this today! I followed the recipe exactly except that I used 2 lbs of brown sugar, and I poured my wort through a sieve into the fermenter. I want this to be super strong, so I'm thinking of adding a pound or 2 of some D-180 in 48 hours. Thoughts?? OG was 1.096!

About that wood: I brewed a 5g batch of 1.088OG of this on 7/10 and I just checked today and it's at 1.010. I used 3 packs of rehydrated US-05, should I wait the 2 more weeks? The wood has only been on rum for a week.

Smelling/tasting anything off in a sample. I worry for months!

Got the mash going for this right now:) Would brown sugar for priming sugar be too much flavor for this? It would only be a touch over a half a cup or so. ETA: OG was 1.088, smelled almost like a cinnabon!

The heatup times on my stovetop are terrible. To get 5 gallons of water to a boil takes almost an hour, and it doesn't ever get to a "hard" boil. I'm looking at extract to eliminate the mash, mashout, and sparge. The boil is the only part that will take time. Cooling is never an issue even in...

I pln on moving to a 10 gallon or more setup after I move next summer. In the winter I do brew indoors on my stovetop. It just takes forever. Like most of the day to get through a recipe.... I prefer to build up stocks of high gravity beers during the spring-fall and try to make it last the...

Brewing isn't a chore for me at all, but I only get about 1 day every 2 weeks to brew as much as I can. And I do take advantage!! This will double or triple my amounts on hand to stockpile for winter. And I can only brew outside from April-November. It's too cold, and I have to brew indoors. I...

I am thinking of switching from taking all day to make 2 all grain recipes, to making 3-4 maybe 5 recipes a day by using extracts. Just a 1 hr boil, cooldown, clean and on to the next one. Specialty grains, if any, would be steeped in a separate smaller pot and added to the main boil before...