belgian

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this in or not, but f*ck it here goes! Recently my wife and I had the pleasure of purchasing some Westvleteren 12 and Blonde while on vacation in Belgium, so I thought I would share my experience. Perhaps this will be useful for you if you ever...

I live in Hawaii--where it's always hot--and got tired of continually chilling during fermentation. I love the flavor of Belgian beers, so I switched to Belle Saison yeast in an effort to avoid the chill hassle. For about the past 10 batches, I've been pitching anywhere between 90-95 degrees...

While there appears to be some debate about the quality of Unibroue bottle fermented yeast dregs*, I had a successful fermentation using dregs from 4 or 5 bottles of their variety 6 pack (Maudite, Blanche, Trois Pistoles, Fin du Monde, others). While it did not end up with Belgian fruity...

Im going to be attempting a strawberry blonde belgian with some clear Belgian Candi sugar for extra sweetness. The recipe is basically the Mill Pond kit from GFHB (Pale rice, Crystal and M41 belgian yeast). I am planning on adding some biscuit rice to the mash and 3lbs of the strawberry puree...

I have a tripel that is ready to be kegged/bottled, OG- 1.076, FG- 1.014. I was hoping to dry this out a bit more but it stuck here. I am thinking that I will need re-pitch a bit in order to naturally condition and I have some T58 that I could easily add to this. I am also thinking that I might...

I love a good yeast driven beer. How satisfying is it to brew something that ends up with flavours that you didn't even add, thanks to the work of our microscopic friends? That was my challenge with brewing a strong, pale Belgian beer - brew a big, pale Belgian beer without using spices, that...

5gal/18.9L BIAB, no sparge OG: .066 FG: .009 ABV: 7.5% IBUs: 20 EBC: 23.2 Water (beersmith calc.) 4ml 80% lactic+salts=mash pH 5.23 Mash @68C/155F 66% 3,6kg/7.9lbs 2-row Maris Otter 9% 500g/1.1lbs Wheat malt 4% 200g/7oz Carafoam/Carapils 4% 200g/7oz Special B 2% 100g/3,5oz Melanoidin Boil 1h...

I’m new here so I hope this is in the right forum; let me know if it should be moved. Working on a recipe to brew in ~November 2018 for Fall/Winter 2019. I’m shooting towards a high gravity beer that falls alongside either Belgian Quad or Old Ale. This time last year, I brewed an old ale with...

This is a super thick, super orangey, single hop/hop-bursted Amarillo Wit. 6 lbs Flaked Wheat 4 lbs Briess 2-Row Brewer's Malt .25 lbs Flaked Oats Add rice hulls if you're not smart enough to be BIAB'ing. :) .65oz 9%AA Amarillo @ 20 min .5 oz 9%AA Amarillo @ 15 min 1 oz 9% AA Amarillo @ 0 min...

Working on a new Belgian Dubbel recipe. Always used the rock candi in previous dubbels. Anyone had experience with Brun Leger or Brun Fonce in a Belgian Dubbel?

I really want to jump into a sour beer with something low abv, crisp, and refreshing. Could anyone help with an extract clone of Prairie Vous Francais from Prairie Artisan Ales? This is what the website says, “Prairie Vous Francais is our farmhouse ale modeled after our first beer, Prairie...

Hey everyone, So call me crazy but I don't currently have the time or capital to outfit an old mini fridge into a ferm chamber (I'd need to extend the fridge and get a temp control unit, not rocket science but a small investment none the less for later). In the meantime id like to brew something...

I have been browsing forums and other areas of the internet in an attempt to find out if Briess Pilsen light LME is essentially liquid pilsner malt, but have not found any definitive answers. I would really like to use it to make some easy Belgian Pale Ale recipes and wanted to know if the...

I'm interested to know if people have experience of opening bottled and fully carbonated beers to add Brett to them at a later date? The inspiration came after a recent batch of Tripel turned out pretty poor; however, at the time of bottling I put aside 6 bottles to which I added dregs from a...

Long time lurker, first time poster. As the title suggests, I pitched my yeast into wort that was colder than recommended(68F instead of 80-85). I am using White labs belgian sour mix I which is supposed to be pitched at 80-85F. I am also concerned that I left too much room for o2. The problem...

Hello, So my wedding is coming up, and I'm planning to give our guests each a bottle of my Belgian Single homebrew (titled: Belgian Single No More). I need to All-Grain brew 250 bottles on a 5 gallon hombrew system, and my plan is to create a twice as strong 5 gallon batch of wort that will be...

I've always loved abbey ales but can't really handle 8 pct brews these days, so I tend to knock the gravity down a bit to keep my sobriety up. So I've basically taken a recipe that would probably end up in the 8 percent range at least and diluted it down, without changing many of the...

Wanted to brew an "off the wall" Belgian Beer with enough hops to call it an IPA and well.... I don't know what to call it and need some help! The hops didn't come through like I had hoped so now if I call it an IPA I feel like I will be hog tied and horse whipped! I was going for a hoppy...

Hey guys. My dad and I are planning out our second annual Christmas season brew day. He's been home brewing for 2 years, and he got me started on it a year ago with a brew day when I was visiting him between Christmas and New Years last year. We both have been all grain brewing, BIAB style with...

10 GALLON SAISON RECIPE: GRAINS 17 lbs Franco/Belgian Pilsner Malt 2 lbs CaraPils 3 lbs Vienna Malt HOPS 2 oz Perle Hops (60 mins) 2 oz East Kent Golding Hops (10 mins) 3 oz Saaz Hops (0 min) YEAST French Saison Yeast (Wyeast 3711) WHIRLPOOL ADDITIONS 2 TBS fresh cracked coriander...