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Last year we tried a Belgian tripel extract recipe but it called for mostly LME, which we believe was the cause of our brew coming out much darker than expected (it looked more like a dubbel). So this time around we're thinking of trying all DME as well as adding dextrose to the recipe. This is...

yeah, we'll give it a few more weeks and check again

Hello, I'm having some trouble brewing this extract recipe kit: https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/saison-de-noel-limited-edition-extract-kit This is not my first time brewing this kit. The first time (also my first ever homebrew) we used wyeast 3711, and after 2 weeks our gravity reading...

good to know, yeah they've only been in the fridge a few weeks so I'm hoping another 4-6 weeks I'll see some clumping on the bottom.

Agreed and also worth mentioning, I was aiming for a very high volume of CO2 initially . I believe 3.2-3.3 volumes or so (I know, I'm pushing standard bottles to their limits). I've done this volume level several times in the past with no issues so yeah the added yeast likely pushed it over the...

Hello, its been a few months so I just wanted to update you guys on how the beer is doing. After about 7 weeks after bottling we did have a single bottle bomb. It was contained in a box so no shards of glass or injuries anywhere thankfully. After this we decided to try and save the beer by...

ugh well this isn't good. Well the starter was going for about an entire day and already had a thick krausen in it at that point if that counts for anything. I honestly have no clue how much of it was fermented but I'd have to imagine at least some of it no?

well my local shop said US-05 should be fine to use as a bottling yeast and the attenuation rates when compared to Wyeast 3787 are quite similar. I also heard its good to make a starter when using a bottling yeast especially for a beer that has a higher abv. As for the 3.3 volumes does that...

I ended up just using US-05 as that is all I could get locally. I'm definitely going to pick up something like CBC-1 for next time. But I might've screwed up, maybe you could let me know. Essentially I made a yeast starter using a can of fast pitch waited a day for the starter to kick off and...

Hello, I'm brewing a Belgian quad using wyeast 3787 and its now reached FG at 1.018 (OG was 1.091) so its roughly 9.6%. Now we're 9 weeks out from brew day so I'm planning on adding yeast for bottling as its likely the Belgian yeast has gone dormant. My local home brew shop says they only have...

Good idea, I'll definitely pick up some more yeast for bottling. The goal was to have this beer ready around Christmas so I have some time.

Yes thats the one, I used 2 packs of wyeast 3787

Hello, I'm currently brewing Northern Brewer's Northy 12 extract kit and after reading the instructions they call for a secondary fermentation of 3 months. My main concern after reading some reviews is this length of time has caused some people's bottled beers to not carbonate fully (or at all)...

Hello, I'm currently brewing a saison using wyeast 3724, and as many of you know its a very finicky strain of yeast. I've been using heat wraps to keep the temp at around 93 F but its been very hard to gauge just how close we are to it being done, because there has been a layer of krausen...

Hello, we're thinking of brewing an extract saison and planned on using the wyeast 3724 strain. Our last brew was a tripel which although tasty had a higher final gravity then we'd like (we used the wyeast 3787 for that one). After doing further research on the 3724 strain it seems like it also...

thanks for all the detailed responses, definitely gonna give this a try this summer.

ah ok, Boil was 2.5 gallons and we added another 2.5 gallons post boil to give us 5 gallons

Yeah definitely some caramel flavors in this. I'm thinking of coming up with a custom recipe with some fresher malt. Any recommendations on yeast strain for a Belgian Trippel?

I'm quite new to homebrewing so I'm not sure exactly what a partial boil is, but we followed the instructions quite closely. One issue that might've caused such a high FG is we made a primary in a 2 Liter that blowed off losing quite a bit of yeast as well as another blow off during the primary...

yep thats the one