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Yes, sorry, don't know where Germany came from. I of course meant Belgium.
Orval (and other Trappist beers)
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Beernik
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Gratitous usage of the word Belgium in a post.
I think culturing dregs is okay. If used for the entire fermentation, it may not be exactly the same. However, the bottling strain of yeast is usually substantially different. Such as with Orval. The Brett strain probably won't do anything significant until the beer is bottled anyway. So the result may not be far off.
I think culturing dregs is okay. If used for the entire fermentation, it may not be exactly the same. However, the bottling strain of yeast is usually substantially different. Such as with Orval. The Brett strain probably won't do anything significant until the beer is bottled anyway. So the result may not be far off.
carnevoodoo
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eh, that depends. I mean brett will ferment the same as sacch will, and in a competitive environment, brett becomes more attenuative. So really, your results will be different.
I love the Orval yeast (Bastogne platinum strain from White Labs) a lot.
ChshreCat
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Went to my SWMBO's 20 year class reunion over the weekend and was disappointed but not surprised that the beer selection was Bud, Coors Light, Corona and Widmer hefeweizen. I was just happy they had the hefeweizen there so I had SOMETHING to drink. So, I'm walking past the bar about an hour into the shindig and I overhear the bartender talking to someone saying "Belgian? What? No, I don't have anything BELGIAN." I wanted to run over and high-five the guy talking to her.
Houblon
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A short story:
While in Antwerpen we noticed a local drinking Urthel Hop-It followed by De Ranke XX Bitter, he was talking to a older couple(60s+) and what we could understand it was about hoppy beers.
Well I just happened to have a bottle of HopSlam and my wife says go ahead, so I walk over and ask "So,you like hoppy beers" and hand him the bottle
He was thrilled by the offer and we,older couple too spent the next hour talking beer. After many bottles he took us around the city visiting bars before we had to catch the last train back to amsterdam.
1 of our best memories from the trip
