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HB Belgian Dubbel. Looks like someone approves.

That was a great podcast, next time I go to Chicago I'm going to check them out (my daughter is in vet school there).

BLAM also talks about WLP575, which is a blend that lowers the fruit flavors and dries it out more.

Can the mill be converted to use a drill motor?

"Die, Die My Darling" Misfits

As far as how to start a whirlpool (with hop pellets not contained), I put IC in last ten minutes and dip the plastic spoon that comes with various starter kits. At end of boil I pull the IC out (with a glove) and start a whirlpool vigorously and turn on brewzilla pump attached to whirlpool arm...

Reminds me of The Vixen from Sam Adams, that was a great beer and this one sounds good too. It was 8.5% ABV as well I see close to yours (it came in 22 OZ bottles :cool:

Congratulations, you will enjoy it for sure.

Bottled this on Aug 4th. Finished at 1.008 for an ABV of 9.06%. Threw one in the fridge last night and got a good carb level for 1 week in the bottle. WOW this tastes amazing! Was hoping for more bubblegum using B-56 but it is well balanced, can't wait to share this one with friends.

We have solar here in So-Cal and I will say running the heat pump will cost you the most. I have 1 heat pump and 2 AC units and my winter usage is a lot higher than summer. The heat pump is in an attached granny flat.

Took a reading 10 days in and it is down to 1.020 from 1.077=7.4%. Tasted amazing, great sweet Belgian nose really feel the alcohol warming which is not surprising at room temp with no carbonation. Edit: was even better after a couple hours in the fridge.

Weird that it didn't explode like my last Belgian triple. I expected it to do so, it's being well behaved.

I plan to switch to kegging but a friend doesn't but we both want to pressure ferment and transfer to a bottle bucket (temporally for me). Couldn't i just dump the trub a couple times if necessary and then attach something to one of the bottom transfer caps and gravity transfer?

Brewed this today with some slight modifications, used Imperial B56 Rustic and used a full pound of pound of dark candi and .27 of white. Hit 1.077 which is close enough for me. Wort tastes amazing!

Not sure how ale yeast got there (too much homebrew?) was meaning a lager yeast (the whole point of this thread).lol But after thinking about it I can see no advantage as I have learned that most of the lager characteristics happen early in primary fermentation.

Has anyone warm fermented with an ale yeast then refermented cold after bottling? Wondering what this would do?

The Great Pumpkin:

I use 5 oz. priming sugar boiled in 5 oz. water for my 5 gallon batch. Transfer into bottling bucket and add the sugar solution right away (about 1/2" of beer is transferred) and no stirring. I've only had 1 gusher and a couple of "flattish" beers. Only about 300 bottles brewed so far (so not a...

Sounds good, I loved that beer. I use to add it to a Doublebock or Octoberfest to make boilermaker's.