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I found specialty grains is not the way to go for this recipe. It was more like a BDS than a Quad. Try something like this instead: Mash: Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) 75.0 % Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) 2.3 % Mash at 150F for 75 min. Boil: Candi Syrup D-80 (80.0 SRM) 11.5 %...

I'm going to work up a recipe. I had four pales to get a hint of the yeast esters. Leffe Blonde, La Chouffe, Piraat, and Kwak. As I suspected, the La Chouffe was closest in yeast ester characters, especially the tangerine like fruitiness. There was a similarity to a Wee Heavy in the base malt...

I sent an email inquiry to Brouwerij Straffe Hendrik De Halve Maan to see if the brewery or the brewer would give some hints about grist, yeast, fermentation schedule etc. No response yet, but I'm hopeful. Tomorrow I will have a chalice of the Straffe Hedrik Quad at a local restaurant that...

A newly minted, first annual, homebrew competition. This first year it's tuned (drop off locations to be announced) for brewers in or near Orange County, but open to any California homebrewer. And there is time to make a beer for this, if you don't already have competition beers in your...

Ditto. Stir it down to within a couple degrees above your target, It will lose some heat to the dead space in the tun and the thermal mass in the cooler if you didn't pre-heat.

Glad you enjoyed it. It was the last one in the second of my "Rooster" series. http://untappd.com/beer/85454

Jonathan sold his brew equipment and I picked up the 5 gallon fermenters. Three of them had these ciders, which have been bulk conditioning in secondary for almost 2 years. I drew samples from each and took gravity reading and tried them. I think I have the brews correct based on a tag on one...