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Hi folks, my name is Kyle. I'm a Mizzou grad student, and homebrewer. I've been brewing for about a year after my girlfriend got me an NB extract kit, and I realized that I could actually make something approximating all the Belgian beers that I love so much. I've got 8 BIAB ferments behind...

An update: I opened all 28 bottles and let them flatten out. Poured them into a fermenter (I use re-purposed icing buckets), and pitched a starter out of a 1/2 cup of Safale-05 slurry from a pseudo-lager BoPils type and a 1/2 liter of 1.04 wort. Gravity at re-pitch was 1.013. 3 days later...

Saw a couple of references from other folks on HBT talking about diacetyl with the Wyeast 1010. Fermentation was about 65-67, meaning it could have reached the mid-70s during peak fermentation, but it definitely didn't stay that warm. Too warm to get a neutral clean finish, but thought I'd get...

I've done a couple of AG beers with pretty good results (even a quasi-Duvel!), but managed to create a diacetyl bomb of a wheat beer. I was trying to make a Boulevard Wheat clone. Malts were Rahr 2-row, Weyerman German wheat, flaked wheat, and some honey malt. I pitched 2L starter (no stir...

I'm in the process of trying to harvest yeast from a 4-pack of Duvel. I followed the basic instructions (sanitize, flame the bottleneck, leave about 1" of beer, shake the heck out of it before you pour, start with ~200ml of 1.02 wort, etc). I cold-crashed and decanted most of the 200ml wort...

I'm planning doing a couple of brews the last weekend before school starts, the BYO Ommegang Abbey clone, and the OP's Duvel recipe, and was looking for suggestions about fermentation schedules and temperature control. 1.) If I did both the Ommegang and Duvel recipes on the same day, could I...

I'd like to try this for my next brew-day, coming up soon. I have a Chimay Red clone that will be ready for bottling with Wyeast 1214 (Belgian Abbey I), and I'd like to re-pitch this yeast directly into an Ommegang Abbey clone. How much of the "lighter liquid" should I pitch? I'd like to...